Elemental Studios Community Blog

  Hello and Welcome to the Elemental Blog! I am so happy that you are here. I hope that this blog is a way for you to connect with the Elemental Studios community, learn more about the staff and students, and more.  This blog is for anyone and everyone who is open to coming to Elemental Studios to try out one class or multiple classes, and wants to learn more. It will include interviews from the staff, students, and Masterclass instructors, as well as some other posts to be included on the blog. I hope you enjoy reading everything on the blog and share it with your friends and fellow dancers. 

  Jazz Funk, also known as street jazz, is a dance style that is a combination of hip-hop and jazz dance techniques. This style originated and started in the early 1980s, and grew during the emergence of hip-hop, borrowing a lot of moves from many other dance styles. From ballet to modern hip-hop and lyrical, it has taken bits and pieces of those genres and has made a unique style that is both fun and expressive in many ways.  As an individual dance genre, the style came to the forefront in mainstream media on the sketch comedy show, "Living in Color," in the early 1990s. The choreographer Rosie Perez directed the "Fly Girls," which at the time included Jennifer Lopez and blended jazz techniques with hip-hop grooves. In the early 2000s, choreographers such as Brian Friedman, Kevin Maher, and Bobby Newberry really made this style a staple in dance culture. With the addition of hip-hop attitudes and the leaps, turns, and modern, dramatic expression of modern jazz, it ...