Jazz Dance
Jazz dance is a resultant in the U.S. form of contemporary dance and contemporary society and art dance.
Originally, the musical based jazz music; Today, the top titles are used from the pop charts in general. The jazz dance evolved from the countless dance styles of the multicultural society of the United States. An integral part of African-American dance styles (partly due to Angola and the Congo ), who came in the 19th century by slaves to America.
General
With the emergence of the first forms of jazz music from the first decade of the 20th century mingled not only the music but also the dance styles of the American cultural and ethnic groups. This resulted partly countless popular dances such as Cakewalk, Turkey Trot or Charleston, but also, for example, the modern tap dancing. All these dance forms found their way into jazz dance as roads, social and entertainment dance ( Vernacular Jazz Dance, nowadays usually called Authentic Jazz ). Some of the jazz dances have movement patterns that go back to African slaves and early dances. But also European, Arab, Indian and Asian movement patterns were included. By 1940, the Jazz Dance had its first peak. In the fifties and sixties elements of jazz dance in ballet and modern dance were integrated. From 1960, the resulting modern jazz and modern dance also became popular in Europe. It emphasizes the body line, rapid, accurate footwork and rhythmic body movements. The exercise center is the pool. With the renaissance of the swing, particularly the Lindy Hop, the Vernacular Jazz Dance is maintained again and disseminated; However, usually without contact to modern jazz dance which has evolved from the roots.
Situation in Germany
In Germany jazz dance has been known since the late 1950s, notably through the courses at the International Summer Academy of Dance in Krefeld and Cologne by faculty such as Alvin Ailey, Frank Wagner, Walter Nicks, Donald McKayle or Lynn Simonson. From the mid 1970s jazz dance in Germany experienced a boom -like ascent. American dancer and choreographer workshop organized Tourneeen in dance studios across Germany and inspired a large number of lay and professional dancers for this in Germany relatively new dance form. Above all, Alvin McDuffie, Ralph Paul Haze, Gus Giordano, Matt Mattox and Milton Meyers leading educators were in this early period of jazz dance in Germany. From Holland came thick and O'Swanborn from Sweden Jessica Iwanson, known initially made the Jazz Dance in Munich. The Cologne Summer Academy always invited new teachers and impressed so much in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, the jazz dance scene in Germany; a role that should take over the Dance Weeks Vienna later. The early 1980s, it was, above all, Charles ( Chuck ) Moore of Los Angeles, like no other the German - should influence jazz dance scene - and later the Swedish. In the early 1990s came with Max Stone, Billy Goodson, Phineas Newborn and Michael Jackson choreographer Vincent Patterson a new wave of jazz dance teachers to Germany.
Education
On the educational side Dick O'Swanborn spread the jazz dance in his courses for the German ballet teachers association. Jessica Iwanson ( student of Walter Nicks ), developed his own style of teaching and gave him nationwide in countless workshops on. Fred Traguth published in 1983 his textbook Modern Jazz Dance and invited well-known teacher in his Bonn TanzWerkstatt one. Since the mid- 1990s, the choreographer and teacher Regine Blum characterizes the dance training in jazz dance in Germany. Since 1996 Regine Blum has developed in cooperation with the Iwanson school and the Bavarian Association for Contemporary Dance ( BLZT ) a now widely recognized certification system for jazz dance education ( training manager license).
Hip Hop
In recent times, has found its way into the domain of jazz dance with the hip- hop dance a completely new aesthetic. As with the Vernacular Jazz Dance are the roots of hip- hop in the ethnic and social diversity of its first generation. The basic principles of the movement as well as many traditional forms were taken over from the Vernacular Jazz and improvised modified to fit the new style of music - in the tradition of the original jazz dance. With the successful march of hip- hop music in the charts of popular music but also the hip- hop dance has the trend of a "cool" approximated youth culture and has captured next to the clubs and streets of the dance studios. With the commercialization of hip hop, however, has lost much of its original charm. While hip -hop is on the schedules of most dance studios now in addition to ballet and jazz dance, there is still a street and club dance scene, for which the term hip hop is a cultural term for several forms of expression, of which the dance is, which is in turn divided into different styles ( locking, Popping, Breaking, crumping and more). Hip -hop choreographers and dancers such as Detlef ' D! ' Soost, Storm ( Niels Robitzky ) in Berlin, Andrew Resurreccion in Zurich or bounce in Stockholm shape in stage shows and television formats in very different ways, the attention of the public development of hip-hop, which is now perceived as part of a serious, contemporary dance art.