The dance jazz is a generic expression which recovers as many the dances of company as of the theatrical dances.

The term appears in 1917 to indicate a syncopated music, derived from the American black culture, then is freely employed to qualify the Danse S exits of this rhythmic. From there, the term evolves to the entertainment and indicates forms of dances specific to the cabarets, with the Théâtre S, the Cinéma, the Télévision, the video clips.

Connected with the Clappers of the Years 1920 of Broadway, the Danse Jazz reaches the whole world and declines the Shimmy, the charleston, the Black bottom and all the forms resulting from the black reviews of Harlem.

Starting from the Years 1940, large the modern choreographers integrates the dance jazz in the musical comedies and confer a narrative function to him. Artists like Jack Sticks, Bob Fosse and Jerome Robbins gives him his noble letters. The spontaneous improvisation makes place with the occupation of space and the musical expressivity.

The Années 1950 see appearing the term of “modern jazz”, expression born in the studios New Yorkean of Matt Mattox and other choreographers who work on energy, the rates/rhythms syncopated, the stops, silences, dynamics and the surprise, while supporting the individual expression and the “feeling”.

Footbridge between the traditional and contemporary vocabulary, the dance jazz harmoniously combines the rates/rhythms, the styles and the techniques considered irreconcilable, and it calls as much upon the most demanding technique that with the most authentic feeling.

This dance is more and more popularized and liked. Means of expression like all the dances, it requires a particular flexibility and a softness.