Dance Performance Production
Jazz classes with Paula are created to refining a dancers technique, grasping the rhythmic structures of jazz music and pushing your way through space with large movements and combinations. Each class begins with a thorough warm up, isolations, footwork, skill drills, stretching and strengthening exercises. Paula teaches levels Beginning through Advanced with performance opportunities in the Bay Area.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
- Identify and perform intermediate jazz dance vocabulary, combinations and technique
- Explain and demonstrate correct body alignment both static and dynamic as it applies to jazz dance sequences across the floor
- Identify and perform the progressive elements of jazz dance to build strength, flexibility, endurance, coordination and agility
- Perform intermediate jazz movement patterns emphasizing rhythmic structure and syncopation