1. CASTLE DANCE FORCE Beginning/Intermediate Creative Dance
JAZZ VOCABULARY
CASTLE DANCE FORCE
Beginning/Intermediate Creative Dance

2. Jazz Dance:
A broad term for American social and stage dance using jazz or jazz-influenced music.

3. Lyrical jazz:
An expressive yet dynamic style of jazz focused on conveying musicality and emotion through movement.

4. Street dance:
Dance styles that evolved outside of dance studios that are often improvisational and social in nature.

5. Hip-hop dance:
Street dance styles primarily performed to hip-hop music or that have evolved as part of hip-hop culture.

6. Parallel:
Stance where the hips, knees and toes face forward.

7. Ball change:
A syncopated weight transfer from one foot to the other.

8. Box Step:
A movement where 4 steps form a square.

9. Jazz Hands:
Open hands where all 5 fingers are spread out as much as possible.

10. Jazz Walks:
Stylized walks of many varieties.

11. Lindy:
A pattern of movement that connects a chassé with a ball change.

12. Pivot Turn:
Half turn on two legs with weight transfer from one leg to the other. Feet stay stationary but swivel.

13. Contraction:
Position or movement in which the center of the torso retreats.

14. Forced arch:
Weight bearing position on the ball of the foot with the heel lifted and the knee bent.

15. Lunge:
Position in either 2nd or 4th where one knee is bent and the other is straight.

16. On the walk:
A starting position for locomotor movements where the back foot rests on the ball of the foot.

17. Cut:
Quick displacement of one standing leg by the other while remaining on the same spot.

18. Grapevine:
A series of steps that move sideways with a side, back, side, front pattern.

19. Isolations:
Movement of only one part of the body.

20. Touch:
A placement of the working foot on the floor without shifting weight to it.

21. UPSTAGE STAGE CENTER STAGE RIGHT STAGE LEFT DOWNSTAGE
Stage Directions:
UPSTAGE STAGE CENTER STAGE RIGHT STAGE LEFT DOWNSTAGE
AUDIENCE

22. Intermediate Vocabulary

23. Fan Kick:
Kick like a high rond de jambe to the front that resembles a fan.

24. Hitch Kick:
A flicking kik initiated from a passe on the opposite leg.

25. Barrel Turn:
Can be done like a pirouette or jump. The body leans forward and the spot is the floor or the front.

26. Pencil Turn
Like a pirouette with the working leg extended either front or side.

27. Tilt
A high leg extension to one side with the body tilting in the opposite direction.

28. Paddle Turns
Several small pivots that make a full turn.

29. Calypso
A turning leap with the front leg extended, the back leg in attitude and the back arched.

30. Stag Leap
A grande jeté with the front leg in plié.

31. Layout
A dramatic movement with one leg extended and the back arched.