Day 3 Jazz Dance
Jazz
is a fun dance style and includes bold, dramatic body movements,
including body isolations and contractions….tik tok tik tok…..Remember
RD Burman’s Jazz beats used in Teesri Manzil for Shammiji’s entry as
rockstar?
Jazz dance originated in 18th century with
African-Americans, that’s why the rhythm and speed of Africans and
expressions of Americans, makes the dance so much fun. The name was
first used during World War I. Over the period of time, Jazz has seen
various forms and its definition is flexible enough to accommodate any
fast beat rhythm dance with energy & expressions as sub form of
Jazz.
1. The dance which I closely relate to Jazz in 1960 is from
Teesri Manzil (1966)..Aaja, aaja mein hun pyar tera, allah allah inkar
tera. Infact most of the dances in those days were influed by
Jazz….includes Badan pe sitare lapateye huwa, Aaj kal tere mere charche
har jupan par,o hasina zulfo wali janejahan… Usually in Jazz the
laya/rhythm gradually increases and then reaches to fastest beat at
climax, like in aaja aaja dance….I am focusing myself to dance but I
know you won’t stop yourself from commenting about RD and and ashaji…
here you go…
2.
Shiamak Davar, a well-known name for Indo-Jazz movements, started his
classes in Mumbai in 1985. He had been training in London and New
York. But after coming to India, his fusion of Indian dance with musical theater style jazz was not welcome. After the success of same in ‘Dil
To Pagal Hai’, everybody rushed to him to explore the dance form
further…Thanks to Karishma!!
You can spot the evolution of Jazz from 1960s to 1980s…Le gayi le gayi dil le gayi le gayi…
3.
Now you would ask me is, Jazz is a dance with energetic movement, then
how is it different than hiphop or break dance? Well Jazz is more
structured; hip hop is like free-style. You do lots of spits and twirls
in Jazz and may be its faster than ballet and slower than hip-hop.
Some times dances are so confusing as it is better to just watch and
enjoy instead of classifying them to their form....especially bollywood dances are always mixed kind...
Recently there is a
remix of ballet and jazz with modern mixed to it and its rather slow.
It is called Lyrical Jazz... During the promo of Guzarish, Hritik was
said to have done lyrical jazz in that...but dont know where the song
magically disappeared... I would be happy if anybody can share the link....No 'Udi' is not lyrical Jazz...I tried my best to search for typical jazz
bollywood numbers but most of them are with Shammiji, Helenji or Shiamk
so here is a link to performance of an eight year old kid...but what a
dance...see the structured movements with beautiful twirls... isse kehte hain Jazz....
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