Latin Jazz dance is known as one of the aesthetic forms that synthesises the Latin American culture. With the immigration of the Cuban, Brazilian, Puerto Rican people mainly to New York, a new fusion of music and dance was formed.
Latin Jazz was inspired by the famous American Jazz and the original Afro-Cuban and Brazilian rhythms, resulting in a discipline that combines movements and rhythms of Merengue, Salsa, Mambo, Lambada, Cha Cha Cha or Samba, all with Jazz Dance Technique.
The roots of Jazz run deep and through Latin American culture, it blossoms in a new way, mixing the lines and visual style of Jazz dance with the grounded groove of Latin American dance movements.
This workshop will work on corporeal isolations associated with the Latin American movements and Afro-Cuban dance, leading to different diagonals with combos associated with Jazz technique fused with these Latin movements. At the end of the class, a choreography is rehearsed in which what has been learnt is put into practice in a fun and new way (re-)discovering Latin Jazz.
Juanjo Hinojosa
