How to jazz dance cape town style
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@NicoGee123 @Mikyle Bester II for the love of jazz... learning ... practice makes perfect 👌 #strictlyjazzdanceschool #bestjazzdanceschoolincapetown #jazztok #capetownjazz #southafricatiktok #bestie #instructor #student #fypシ #foryou #viral #dance
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TikTok video from Taren M Ferreira (@tarenmferreira): "@NicoGee123 @Mikyle Bester II for the love of jazz... learning ... practice makes perfect 👌 #strictlyjazzdanceschool #bestjazzdanceschoolincapetown #jazztok #capetownjazz #southafricatiktok #bestie #instructor #student #fypシ #foryou #viral #dance". Cape Town Jazz | Strictly Jazz Dance School | learning jazz from the best. CUFF IT.
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A rare site of #bosslady & I #jazzin ” #capetown #tiktokdance #fyp #capwtownvibes #radioguy #party #lekka #epicnight
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My Gorgeous sister and Brother in law taking over the dance floor #capetownjazz
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@NicoGee123 @Mikyle Bester II for the love of jazz... learning ... practice makes perfect 👌 #strictlyjazzdanceschool #bestjazzdanceschoolincapetown #jazztok #capetownjazz #southafricatiktok #bestie #instructor #student #fypシ #foryou #viral #dance
72 Likes, 6 Comments. TikTok video from Taren M Ferreira (@tarenmferreira): "@NicoGee123 @Mikyle Bester II for the love of jazz... learning ... practice makes perfect 👌 #strictlyjazzdanceschool #bestjazzdanceschoolincapetown #jazztok #capetownjazz #southafricatiktok #bestie #instructor #student #fypシ #foryou #viral #dance".
Cape Town Jazz | Strictly Jazz Dance School | learning jazz from the best. CUFF IT.
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Happy pride month everyone #lgbt #lgbtqiaplus #fypシ #fyp #capetownclubjazz #strictlyjazz #bestjazzdanceschoolincapetown #capetownjazz #southafricatiktok #southafricanjazz #jazztok #viral
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TikTok video from Taren M Ferreira (@tarenmferreira): "Happy pride month everyone #lgbt #lgbtqiaplus #fypシ #fyp #capetownclubjazz #strictlyjazz #bestjazzdanceschoolincapetown #capetownjazz #southafricatiktok #southafricanjazz #jazztok #viral". strictly jazz dance school... cape town | LGBTQI+ 2022 PAGEANT @HAVANA NIGHTS . Girlz Wanna Have Fun.
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Jazzing Cape Town style!. original sound.
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Jazz-Funk Dance - Todes School
Jazz Funk Dance Style
Jazz-funk dance is a unique fusion of beautiful elements from other dance styles that, at first glance, may not fit together. This is exactly what makes him so free, independent and popular. It has a large number of wave-like movements. Jazz-funk dance has no restrictions and rules, this makes it possible to express what is needed in it. This is a dance of contrasts, where sharp, daring movements are suddenly replaced by gentle and smooth ones, absorbing the interest of the public.
History of Jazz-Funk
It originated in America at the beginning of the 21st century and in this short period of time has become a fundamental dance in the world of show business. Its founders are 3 choreographers - Bobby Newberry, Brian Friedman and Kevin Meyer, who showed the whole world how attractive and harmonious hip-hop movements can look if you add a soft manner of performance, plasticity and dynamism to them.
The main features of the jazz-funk style
This is the creativity and showiness shown in the performance. Despite the fact that Jazz-Funk dance has embodied the techniques of various dance styles of the current version, this style has its own face. Distinct sharp movements smoothly turn into soft and measured ones. Each choreographer puts his inimitable personality, character and emotions into this style.
Many American pop stars - Beyoncé, Britney Spears, and others - danced in jazz-funk style. In the outrageous appearances of Lady Gaga on stage with a team of dancers, elements of jazz-funk can be easily recognized.
Jazz-funk: why such popularity?
The popularity of jazz funk is due to the fact that he borrowed the best manners from each dance style. The ability to compose and express your own emotions on the go makes the dance very energetic, lively, expressive, dynamic, often exciting fantasies. The dancer gets the opportunity to express himself through the body.
One of the inherent hallmarks of this modern dance is impetuosity. The impulse is created in the upper part of the dancer's torso and passes to other parts of the body. The body makes an active movement to the side or forward. Such unexpected vigor of plasticity invariably attracts the interest of the public. Another characteristic of jazz-funk is movement with a transition from bold broken lines to smooth and gentle ones. Such a manner of movement represents coherence and harmony.
In the Jazz-Funk style, it is quite difficult to make out individual details, this dance style obeys only the rhythm, it lives while the music is playing. Jazz funk is a great means of self-expression outside of limited social and any other conventions.
Music for jazz-funk choreography
When choosing music for the practice of this dance direction, it makes sense to concentrate on the tracks of such popular artists as Lady Gaga, Madonna, Rihanna, Beyonce, Britney Spears, Ariana Grande, Shakira and others.
Some young choreographers and dancers who put on Jazz-Funk numbers and post their videos online most often choose songs from the works of these artists themselves for their performances.
Would you like to dance jazz-funk?
Jazz-Funk is a great opportunity for self-expression outside of social norms and rules.
This style is not easy to do - it requires good physical shape, preparation, stamina and some acrobatic skills. For this reason, the emotional dance is suitable for everyone who has these abilities, and in addition wants to throw out the accumulated energy, develop courage and become more self-confident. If you want to experiment, work on your own plasticity, loosen up and remove blocks in the body, then jazz-funk dance lessons will suit you and your children. In our dance studio you can learn this dance.
How it is to dance jazz – DIVOCHE.MEDIA
Olya Smirnova, one of the founders and ideological inspirers of the show “The Age of Jazz”, tells how it is to dance authentic jazz, make performances in the chorus line style and organize a whole show about the 30s .
About myself and swing
There are two main activities in my life: children's book illustration and jazz dancing. I chose to do only what inspires me and gives me energy. I started to get involved in jazz music in 2009. At first I fell in love with rock and roll of the 50s and boogie-woogie dance - it is danced every Wednesday and Sunday in the summer at the Shell in the Mariinsky Park. Over time, she came to more complex music, including swing, and began to dive deeper into the culture of that time.
Swing is not just old jazz music for me. This is a rhythm, a special quality, attitude, communication through the body with music. Swing dances are social because they were created as a way to communicate. Instead of a constant partner, as in ballrooms, you dance with different people, find contact with music and another person at the same time.
About two thousand people practice swing in Kyiv. Plus a few more hundreds in Odessa, Lvov, Dnipro and Kharkov. Not as much as in salsa, but there is someone to dance with.
About vintage finds
For me, swing dances are not just movements, but a whole culture: music, lifestyle, American history of the 20-60s, fashion and much more.
I look for and wear vintage clothes and accessories, I use retro elements in the interior, I like to walk along the old streets, watch old films.
Some treasures inherited from my grandmother, such as a brooch and a nightstand brought from the GDR in the 70s. On every trip I go to flea markets and vintage shops, but the most successful finds still happened in Kyiv at Lesnaya. In Europe, a real vintage is expensive, it is more appreciated there.
There is also a vintage shop "Vintage Crew" in Kyiv. His co-owner Nika danced with us in the first few programs. And since there are no former chorus girls, now Nika is almost always with us behind the scenes: helping with costumes and styling curls.
About the show
"Protagonists" show - chorus line. In the 1920s and 1940s, this was the name given to groups of girls who performed in nightclubs as an opening act for the main artists, dancing complex rhythms to fast music in beautiful outfits and throwing their legs high.
I was inspired to create a chorus line in Kyiv by Marie N'diaye, a dancer from Sweden, who every year gathers an international chorus line as part of the Herrang dance camp (the largest swing dance festival, held in Sweden for the past 38 years). I was lucky for the last four years to dance in her team every summer.
The Age of Jazz show was born from a simple idea to do some dance routines with live music. Once, over a bottle of wine, this idea was transformed into the concept of a full-fledged show.
We asked the familiar musicians (backbone - the group "Hands in Trousers" and their friends) - how do they like this adventure. And they accepted and agreed! We found the missing instruments for the big band and started rehearsals.
We began to frantically learn the numbers, some of the productions for the first show were taken from Marie. And a miracle happened! The first show was followed by the second, then the third, the fifth… We began to come up with our own numbers, added more pairs, acquired props and costumes.
For the past three years we have been doing a "naphthalene" show once every two or three months, gathering full houses, growing and do not want to stop.
The first show was risky - we didn't know much about behind the scenes work. Scenario, lighting, operators, runs - everything was learned on the go.
Our girls are not professional artists, but rather enthusiasts. After the first show, in the comments to the photo, some man wrote that we all urgently need to go to the gym.
We looked at ourselves, laughed and realized that our imperfection is our strength - after all, we are simple girls of different shapes, heights and sizes. We are united by the love of swing, sisterhood, the desire to dance, feel the beat and rejoice. That's what jazz is all about, not waist size or how high you can swing your leg.
Now the show is more coherent and thoughtful than three years ago. Behind the two-hour concert that guests see on stage is the work of more than 30 people working solely for the love of dance and music of the Jazz Age.
We are our own directors, screenwriters, PR people, stylists, choreographers, sound engineers, cameramen and everyone else.
This is what our show is based on - well-coordinated work, self-organization and support. The Age of Jazz show gives me the feeling of a friendly shoulder, we are doing something cool together that we all like and how each of us lives.
About costumes
We need a new costume for each number, and the budget is very limited. From the idea to the implementation of the outfit, we go through many stages: euphoria, denial, acceptance, finding compromises in price and quality. Usually it is a lot of velvet, sequins, feathers and fringe.
Previously, they ordered a lot on AliExpress - cheap and brilliant, but such things are not only of poor quality, they also sit disgustingly, do not allow you to move normally. Now we try to sew most of the outfits from friends or ourselves. To do this, they gathered several times in a circle of cutting and sewing, built patterns, made patterns.
Excellent team building.
But even if we think over and make costumes in advance, there is always something to finish or glue on at the last moment. We always know what we'll do the night before the show. For example, on a costume in the style of Josephine Baker, I sewed 20 rows of gold fringe until two in the morning.
Everything is easier with shoes. We recently ordered golden shoes for everyone from the Ukrainian company Harlem Shoes. They are specially made for dancing, very comfortable and beautiful.
About dancing
There are jazz ballets in Kyiv. But swing, authentic, like 100 years ago - only one. Yes, we are not just a ballet. We are creating a whole world in which you can dive and get lost headlong for two hours. All members put a part of themselves into the show, so it can't be called a hobby. But it's not a normal job either. Rather love.
We do not follow the fashion, the crowd's wishlist, we do not make "Gatsby", "gangsters" and "dudes". This approach has its drawbacks, of course.
But it's important for us to do what we like, to keep the culture of swing alive.
Modern jazz trends are more focused on form, lines, visual component. We dance with an emphasis on the inner state, searching for sensations of rhythm in the body and expressing it through movements, delving into the origins of dance and old videos.
Same suit with 20 rows of fringe
This does not mean that some jazz dance is correct and some is not. It's just that rhythm is more important to me than perfect lines, sensations are more important than splits. We're trying to get to the bottom of it, to understand why people danced like that when jazz was born.
About the girls in the team
Today we spend about 10 hours a week in the hall for general training in solo jazz, tap, mambo, lindy hop. Before the performance, of course, many times more. Plus, each of the girls is engaged in stretching, afro, yoga or other swing dances on their own.
Most of us teach at dance schools in Kyiv or play/sing in bands.
At the same time, we cannot call ourselves "professional dancers" in the classical sense. We have not learned this since childhood, our body is not so prepared, most of us have a main job. But we are the only team in Ukraine that dances swing dances at such a high level.
Marie from Sweden puts another idea into the chorus line, which is close to me too: it is a kind of women empowerment, an opportunity to express yourself through dance with the full support of sisters in spirit.
About ambitions
Now almost every European capital has its own chorus line, some even have more than one. Swing is played and danced a lot in Europe, the culture is reviving and attracting new people. Every weekend in large European cities dance parties and festivals with hundreds of guests are held.
We are the only ones in Kyiv - Shiny Stockings Chorus Line. We have few people who know about swing and listen to old jazz.
