1º of Jazz Funk

As a dance style, it has its own technique and style but uses technical elements of modern dance and ballet, mainly with regard to the mobility of the torso and the dissociation of the upper part with respect to foot and leg work. . The importance lies in the corporal expression, the work in parallel, the syncopation and a control and dissociation of our extremities.

In jazz-funk pirouettes and arabesque figures are executed, and danced on the balls of the feet. The jazz-funk dance style is used by many pop music stars in their music videos, such as Beyonce and Jennifer Lopez.

Jazz-funk is a genre that developed in the United States, where it became moderately popular around the 1970s and early 1980s. It developed in parallel with the consolidation of funk itself as an independent style, arising from the interaction between certain currents of jazz, such as the funky jazz of the 1950s, and soul, and is reflected in the music of the big bands that accompany the great figures of the genre, such as James Brown, in which musicians such as Maceo Parker were or Pee Wee Ellis. It will be, in turn, the interaction between this music and the experiences of jazz rock, which shapes jazz funk.