Jive - Latin Dance Class

This dance originated in the southeast of the USA, where it had an affinity with war dances of the Seminole Indians in Florida. The word “Jive” is probably derived from “Jev”, meaning, “to talk disparagingly” in the West African Wolof language. In the 1880s, the dance was performed competitively amongst the Negroes in the South, and the prize was frequently a cake, so the dance became known as the cake walk. The associated music became known as Ragtime, possibly because the participants dressed up in their best “rags” or clothes, or possibly because the music was syncopated and “ragged”. The music and dances subsequently became popular in Chicago and New York.

Spanning across generations of dancers, this of shoot of jazz, sets the blood racing in the veins and compels one to get up and move to the beat. It's all about strict rhythm without melody. With its exciting lifts, jumps and spins the jive took the world by storm in the Elvis era as the rock-n-roll mania took over. So if you are one of those who believes that you got to live for today and let tomorrow look after itself, this dance is devoted to you!

Basic-II

Intermediate