Last night I took a technique class at Luigi's Dance Centre with Francis Roach. Luigi is a famous jazz teacher who developed his own dance style after being seriously injured in a car accident. Check out his bio to learn about his career in the movies and on Broadway. I'll guess he's in his 80's since he served in World War II. He continues to teach and I plan to take one of his beginner classes soon.
Last night's class focused solely on the warm-up exercise that's done during the regular style classes. So I probably won't take the Monday class again. I'll just take the style class so I can learn the routine.
I tried to find a video of Luigi dancing or teaching, but no luck. But I did stumble upon this video with dancing by Chita Rivera and Jack Cole on the TV show "Tip Toe Through TV" with a wonderful intro by Sid Ceasar with his answer to the question: What is jazz?
Posted by Doug Fox on December 11, 2007 10:09 AM
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