Tag: jazz

Turn It Around

A teen jazz class at Broadway Dance Center in NYC practices balancing. Nothing makes an audience go wild like a fierce pirouette sequence, and great jazz performers can make countless turns look effortless. But turning isn’t easy. Chances are you’re always working on improving your pirouettes—nailing that extra rotation or mastering a new tricky turn. […]

It's About That Walk

Dancers from the 2011 Musical Theatre Performance Project jazz-walk it out. (Vanessa Pomiechowski/Courtesy Broadway Dance Center) You’re in the studio, hard at work on a snazzy new jazz routine. As the choreographer adds the finishing touches to a phrase, she mentions that you’ll take eight jazz walks to travel to your next formation. You inwardly […]