Name: High

Media: Audio CD

Release Date: 30 August 2004

Label: Sanctuary

Tracks

1 Days Of Our Lives

2 I Would Never

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Name: The Moment

Artist: Lisa Stansfield

Media: Audio CD

Release Date: 27 September 2004

Label: Ztt

Tracks

1 Easier

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1. It’s the music of your grandparents. Throw a Benny Goodman Big Band CD on the sound system when Grandpa is around and watch his face brighten up. He may show energy that you didn’t know he had anymore. In fact, don’t be surprised if you walk in on him cutting the rug (aka dancing) with Grandma. Benny Goodman’s group and the rest of the big bands was the *NSYNC’s, Eminem’s, and Limp Bizkit’s of your grandpa’s day, so to speak. Read the rest of this entry »

Jazz-art-technology
by Elisabeth Frich
ISBN-10: 3817040024

Illustrated with over 800 photos, this book provides an excellent overview of Mattox’s dance technique. It includes a number of Exercises, narrated by Mattox itself. All the major motion moments photographically illustrated and explained, so that this reference work as dancers, choreographers, teachers and students of any skill levels can be useful.

Jazz Dance: History, Theory, Practice

by Helmut Günther
271 pages
Henschelverlag
Publication Date: 2005
ISBN-10: 3894874988
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Structure and objectives of the course: This is a kind of dance based its roots in ballet and develops in the 40s with the explosion of the Broadway musical. The term jazz has remained, although the style has evolved and modernized through studies on the technique of the movement of some of its great interpreters, like Matt Mattox, Alvin Alley and others. The jazz dance, however, does not bind to the fees prescribed, but on the contrary can range from a genre classic and “soft” on the most dynamic and gritty of the ballet to television.

Jazz began as one of the popular dance moves of the early twentieth century.
At that time, jazz was the music that is heard on the radio. The dance steps took the name “jazz” music of jazz.

We already have the answer, it was not difficult to explain it? In fact, it was quite simple, but this response leads to another question: is the dance that we call jazz is now worthy of its name? The ballet is easy to recognize.

As soon as we open the feet, hair in a sleek and the arms cargo that we’re seeing ballet. However, jazz is a little more difficult. The term is a jazz label that put the dances of Broadway shows from MTV videos of concert dance companies such as Hubbard Street, street dancers, the dance groups and dancers drill1 tap. Read the rest of this entry »

What is the dance and why to give different names to their statements?
Dance is body movements that follow a rhythmic pattern, usually accompanied with music and serving as a form of communication or expression.

Every human being has the quality to express themselves through movement.
What is dance?
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In the mid-twentieth century takes elements of ballet, dance and contemporary tap. Since then, there are new styles that accentuate the body line, the mobility of the torso, etc..

There is also the work of fast legs and accurate, unlike the feet turned out like ballet, these are in parallel. Furthermore, exaggerated movements of individual parts of the body as the shoulders. “JAZZ” comes from the OLD FRENCH “JASM” VITALITY OR “Slang JAS,” SEX. Read the rest of this entry »

Jazz dance developed in America in the hands of jazz music and its origins date back to the folk dances of the African peoples. Despite numerous stylistic variations (for example ‘beat’, ‘primitive’) can be recognized principles that characterize normal movements. The following techniques will be explained briefly:
Isolation
Polycentricity
Tension-distension
Locomotion
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