1. The concept of modern dance is very broad, and its ultimate goal is to be innovative and serious in exploration. In the eyes of modern dancers, everything in nature is danceable, and every human behavior and movement is danceable.

2. The "dynamics" and "structure" of modern dance.

No matter what form modern dance is performed in, the most basic thing is to start from the movement. The formation, continuation, development and change of the movement are most important to look at the method of leveraging the movement. Secondly, look at the structure of the work.

Modern dance breaks the classical aesthetic principle of the ideal of harmony, pays attention to people in real society and pursues the true beauty of nature.

3. (1) Movement characteristics of modern dance: In modern dance works, the weight of the dancer is emphasized rather than the lightness like ballet, and the process of space is emphasized in the movement rather than the movement. itself,

emphasizes the frustration of charm rather than smoothness in space, emphasizes imbalance rather than balance in composition, and emphasizes the revelation of process rather than the concealment of process.

(2) Jazz dance focuses on movements and melody performances. Its characteristic is that it can be danced freely. It does not have to be limited to one form and adhere to inherent postures like traditional dance. This It has a lot in common with modern dance.

It will express emotions in conjunction with jazz music, and also use or imitate other dance techniques.

4. Jazz dance is a type of modern dance, because jazz dance is a multi-performance dance.

And it has a strong black slave cultural background. Now, the jazz dance we see retains the melody of past music, the throwing of limbs or the characteristics of independent operation.

But it is not only performed with jazz music, it can also be performed with pop music. , blues music, rock music or disco music to perform.

Extended information:

Five skills for good dance

(1) The cultivation of rhythm is the cultivation of feeling. Feeling is very important and is the soul of a dance. Cultivating feeling can be very simple or very difficult.

The simple thing is, watch more dance videos and listen to more music with strong rhythm, so that you will naturally feel better about dance, which is very important for jazz.

Because there are often broken beats to step on, and developing a sense of rhythm and music is also the basis for developing a sense of dance.

(2) Practice of basic skills.

Since many jazz dances are now mixed, including (classical jazz, Latin, belly dance, modern dance, ballet) and other dance elements,

And these few The dance types have a unique characteristic, which is that they require higher flexibility in the shoulders, chest, waist and hips.

(3) In jazz dance, there are more than 20 ways of hip movement alone. At the same time, JAZZ is especially capable of fixing points in these places.

(4) The warm-up movements of jazz dance are very rhythmic and usually last 20-30 minutes.

Since jazz dance classes involve tiptoeing, fast kicking, spinning, jumping, sustained or rapid contraction of the abdomen, etc., ballet squats and stand-up movements are often added to the warm-up exercise. Helps prepare the muscles of the feet and legs.

In addition, independent and joint movements of the upper body limbs and trunk are needed to achieve the effect of whole body warmth and muscle flexibility.

(5) As important as warm-up exercise is cool-down exercise.

At the end of the jazz dance class, the main joints and muscles should be stretched again so that the tired muscles can be relieved more naturally and quickly. This will help reduce muscle soreness and fatigue the next day of the class.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Modern Dance

Baidu Encyclopedia-Jazz Dance