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Summary: Learn how to isolate your foot and knees when rehearsing jazz dancing in this free video beginning dance lesson.
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Kelly-Anne Kelly-Anne is a Professional Ballroom & Theatrical Musical Dance coach in South Florida USA. She is a highly versatile seasoned pro. Having cross trained & w... read more
Hello on behalf of Expert Village I'm Kelly Anne and I will be demonstrating beginning jazz dancing for you. This is my friend and partner Darryl; he will be assisting. Now for the feet, you have flex and point, flex and point, flex and point, flex and point. Other foot; flex and point, 2,3,4. Circling of the feet to the right, to the left, to the left, to the right. The knees, we are going to take a bounce. You ready? Okay we have bounces for 8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1,. Bending of the knees and pleading. Now we have one and one straight. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8. Now, we have knee lift passé. You want to wrap the foot to the knee. You want it really to have it parallel turning around, other side passé. This is jazz passé. This turns out and in. passé turn out and turn in. For balance it is really important to pull up on your supporting leg. You have a supporting leg and a working leg. I hope you enjoyed it and thank you for watching. I'm Kelly Anne of 56dance.com with my friend Darryl. Special thank you to Expert Village and the Goddess Store for letting us use the studio.