Jazz Dance: History, Steps, and Benefits

Running head: JAZZ DANCE
Jazz Dance
Name of the Student
Name of the University
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JAZZ DANCE
My whole childhood I spend dancing hip hop and grew old with a dream to become a
dance teacher. In other words, I like gathering knowledge on different dance forms. However,
providing dance classes and having a own dance school with the capability of teaching maximum
number dance forms. One day, while searching out dance videos of different dance forms, my
eye hold on a video of a jazz tutorial which later I saw and found it to be interesting and joyous.
Then, I read some books on its history and steps on the internet which made me decide to study
jazz dance course. It is performed with the rhythmic tone and the steps were soothing enough to
make stress out. This dance form I found was one of the best and I knew it would help me a lot
in my future to grab more students and provide me with the opportunity to teach them.
Jazz dance has a variety of dance steps which is much interesting for me because it gives
me an opportunity to learn more and more steps. The most exciting I found about this dance form
was its immense number of benefits such as health and physical benefits, independent to express
emotions and artistic expressions (Cain et al. 2015). Jazz dance includes stretching which makes
the body flexible and strengthen the muscles of arms and legs (Filar-Mierzwa et al. 2017). This
dance will also help me to sharpen for further other styles of dance as jazz includes variety of
steps under it. Jazz lets each of dancers to express his or her own self creativeness and explore
body movements to be free flow of personal expression. It brings out the individuality in each
(Cohen 2015).
The six phrase type within jazz’s dynamic range are: