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Jazz Drill

Required Attire: Jazz pants or athletic shorts, leotard or fitted tank top, jazz shoes, and hair pulled back off of face.

Age Range: 10 - Adult

Precision form of jazz. It focuses on technique with precision and placement. Its focus is for dancers who aspire to be on a drill team or dancers who are on a drill team and want to improve their skills. The movement style of drill technique requires precision, placement, strength, and flexibility.

Level Criteria

Level I

Grapevine, single pirouettes, kick ball change, chasse, pivot turns, jazz box, three step turns, chaines, pas de bourres, jetes, battements, jump kicks, exercise kicks, sing & double tuck jumps, and partner stretching.

Level II

All of the Level I criteria, progress with Level I technique, pas de bourres turns, double pirouettes, toe touches, layouts, drill arm & hand placement, grapevine kicks, fan kicks, introduce axles and switch leaps.

Level III

All of the Level I & II criteria.  Progress with the Level I & II technique, jump fans, cowboy kicks, star kicks, Y scales, graduated kicks, switch leaps, pirouettes in coupe, axels, leaps in seconde (russians), piques, right & left splits.  Introduction to fouette turns in seconde.

Level IV

All of the Level I, II & III criteria.  Progress with Level I, II & III technique.  Triple pirouettes, double axels, reverse leaps, switch leaps, multiple toe touches, jump splits & variations of axels.

Level V

All of the Level I, II, III & IV criteria.  Progress with Level I, II, III & IV technique, swith seconde leaps, fouette turns, turns in seconde, four pirouettes and turning switches.