Beginning Jazz Dance With Web Resource

Description

Beginning Jazz Dance provides students with the context, background information and basic instruction they need in order to understand the genre and appreciate jazz dance as a performing art. Students learn the core concepts of jazz dance, the value of studying jazz dance and class expectations as well as gaining an understanding of the structure of a jazz dance class, the roles of everyone in the studio and how to be physically and mentally prepared for class. It also offers tips on injury prevention, nutrition guidelines and basic anatomy and physiology as applied to movement in jazz dance. It comes with a web resource that includes 55 photos and 125 video clips of basic jazz dance technique which students can access at any time. Students and lecturers alike will benefit from the wealth of resources on the website which include assignments, worksheets, glossary terms with and without definitions, interactive chapter quizzes and web links.

James Robey, MFA, is assistant professor of dance and department chair at Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri, where he received the Messing Faculty Award in 2015. He was director of the prestigious Ridgefield Conservatory of Dance for 10 years, during which he also created the Robey Jazz Dance Technique and Syllabus. He has taught as faculty or adjunct faculty at numerous universities, schools for the performing arts, and dance studios. Robey was artistic director and company artist for James Robey Dance for 14 years. He has danced for many companies, beginning his dance career in 1990. He has also acted as choreographer for numerous ballets and dance ensembles over the years, and he has presented at conferences and written numerous articles on jazz dance and related topics. Robey is on the board of directors of the American College Dance Association and is a member of the National Dance Education Organization, National Association of Schools of Dance, and Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society.