Classes & Lectures
Jump Rhythm Technique
"the first genuine jazz technique in forty years." (Dancer) This innovative approach to studying jazz focuses on using the entire body to express the offbeat accents and dazzling energy shifts of rhythm-rich jazz dance.
Jump Rhythm Tap Technique
explores how ease and control of footwork combine with an expressive upper body to create sparkling swing in both sound and motion.
Jump Rhythm Jazz Repertory
teaches short pieces or sections from longer dances that "lay bare the emotional content of the rhythm." (Dance Magazine)
Rhythmic Analysis
concentrates on the details of jazz rhythm-making: downbeats, syncopations, triple rhythm, duple rhythm and the exuberant life of jazz dynamics.
Song and Dance the Jazz Way
stages great standards from songwriters like Gershwin and Ellington using both jazz vocal technique and the Jump Rhythm Technique.
"Jump Rhythm Jazz!"
JRJP¹s lecture-demonstration show, geared to younger children, teens and / or adults, combines audience interaction and excerpts from both technique class and repertory.