Beginning Jazz Terms and People

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Across
  1. 2. begin by bringing the foot in parallel to the opposite knee, shift your weight to that foot as you perform the kick
  2. 6. the feet remain in the same position as the body changes direction
  3. 7. hunched shoulders, inverted legs, hats, canes
  4. 8. "West Side Story", balletic movement
  5. 9. the non-weight bearing foot kicks and then touches behind shifting the weight from the back to the front
  6. 11. anthropologist, spine and pelvis isolation
  7. 12. walking in a square shape
  8. 13. traveling step going sideways crossing one foot in front of the other alternating
  9. 15. a straight leg kick making an arc across the front of the body
Down
  1. 1. heel grazes the floor and then the knee bends
  2. 3. moving one body part separate from the rest
  3. 4. a turned in knee
  4. 5. "Father of Jazz Dance", theatrical
  5. 7. stand up comedy, stuttered, shuffles
  6. 10. Weight shift from front to back or side to side.
  7. 12. open hand with strong extended fingers
  8. 14. accented touch with the ball of the foot