Modern jazz has huge health and physical fitness benefits which include increased strength, flexibility, coordination, and endurance. You can develop arm strength from floor work, leg strength from jumps, and core strength from coordinating all of your body at the same time. 

 

Modern jazz can help increase flexibility and range of motion in the hips, shoulders, and spine.  This class is also fantastic for improving co-ordination. 

There are challenging steps and combinations where the upper and lower body contrast each other in numerous ways.  (A bit like patting your head and rubbing your tummy!) As well as all the benefits above, the uplifting high energy music of a musical theatre jazz class can help lead to an increased amount of endurance and stamina in the body. 

 

A typical jazz class at BLOOM will include a cardio warm up which we change up each term. We then move on to a technique, stretch and conditioning section which stays the same each week so you can really focus on these things rather than what comes next. 

 

We then mix up our corner work combinations including pirouettes, kicks and leaps. 

 

Then it’s on to our dance! At BLOOM we tend to pick a musical theatre piece every half term to dance our hearts out to.  As we all know musical theatre has a huge variety of genres.  We love to dance to a complete mixture which helps us become more versatile dancers and build confidence in styles which we may be less familiar with.  One term we can be leaping around as guys to “Luck Be A Lady’ from Guys and Dolls and the next half term boogieing to the Little Shop of Horrors or strutting our stuff as one of the queens from SIX!