Beginning Jazz III

Building upon the first two levels, Beginning Jazz III students are ready for more challenges and faster movements.  In this class students continue to expand technique, vocabulary and lengthen combinations. The strong focus is on qualitative differences, level changes, and flexibility.  These dancers are building the core strength necessary to learn turns and jumps at the next level.  Dancers must exhibit consistent technique and memory in order to move to the next level.

Movement mastered: all prior movements, plus: isolations slow, medium and fast to the music, more complete stretches and splits, pas de bouree, jazz square with arms, chaine turns fast and slow, preparation for pirouette with 1/4, 1/2, and full turns, spotting, stag leaps, turning battements with arms, triplets, demonstrating complex combinations on time with the music.