![]() We’ve taken our many years of professional Lindy Hop experience to create a jazz course that progresses from easier to much more complex steps with a great deal of learning and development along the way. There are a lot of ways to approach your jazz training. Well, it just so happens, we have a course for that! So, if you’re ready to start to really dig into your solo jazz, where you should you start? That’s when your overall movement just starts to get better and not only does it reflect in your solo dancing but your Lindy Hop starts to grow too. You can expand your physical ability, agility, flexibility, get to know your dance lines, and unleash your creativity. It will just feel right.Īfter that, you can really start to make the steps your own. Then there’s making all that timing part of your natural muscle memory so that you don’t even have to think about how it will fit with the music. The first phase is simply knowing how to execute the mechanics of the steps. The bottom line is, if you aren’t making jazz training part of your dance, you will never be as good of a dancer as you could be. Don’t forget to watch videos of the great dancers in Harlem too! Here are just a few of our favorites: The Spirit Moves ![]() The fact is that in the Black Community, where the dance originated, solo dance ability and all those classic jazz steps were as fundamental to the dance as triple steps. Solo jazz adds new flavors and textures to your basics, helps you work on your rhythm, and helps instil it in our fundamental understanding and interpretation of the dance. ![]() Most people get into Lindy Hop because they love the social aspect of the dance -and we do too- but when you’re always dancing in a partnership, it’s easy to lose sight of how little you’re developing your personal body control and quality of movement. “But I’m always dancing with a partner anyways.”īut… but… but… INSERT other common excuses about what’s standing in the way. “But I only have so much time to spend on my dancing and really want to work on partnered stuff.” “But it’s not as fun working on my dancing alone.” “But I don’t really feel like it’s useful.” You might tell yourself, “I’m more comfortable being a partner dancer – I’m not interested in being a solo dancer.” We’re here to tell you that you’re missing out on some of the best parts of Lindy Hop! Plain and simple: if you want to be a great Lindy Hopper, you need to invest in your solo movement.Įven if you’ve set your sights differently and “only want to be a solid social dancer,” it’s still just as important to work on your jazz, movement, and rhythm. You might feel like you can get by in your Lindy Hop with minimal focus on your jazz for quite some time and think it’s not a big deal. Sometimes people think that doing a few Boogie Backs and Fall off the Log for one song during a class warm-up is enough, like a Lindy Hop checkbox you’re “supposed to” tick without really emphasizing its’ value.
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