Improvisation: Phrasing and Transitions - Vernacular Jazz Explained for Lindy Hop & Swing Dance

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Lindy Hop has a robust culture of vernacular jazz, so learning how to solo dance can have a big impact on your partnered Lindy & Swing Dancing. Plus, it's super fun! Here, we talk about two of the tools I use to improvise: bleeding over the phrase, and using transitions to make a step land with more impact.

Just follow along! After you go through the video once, feel free to go back and break things down, but give yourself a few chances to see and do in real time. After all - that's what we have to do on the social dance floor all the time!

This is from a solo jazz class I taught for the organization Jazz Attack! Thank you so much for asking me to share some dancing with you! I had a great time.

MUSIC:
Esquire Bounce, by the Brooks Prumo Orchestra
http://brooksprumoorchestra.bandcamp.com

25 weeks pregnant at the time of this filming.