Jazz Steps

Steps

Ball Change: Syncopated weight shift onto the ball of the rear foot and back to the flat front foot

(Can be done as a traveling step).

Chassé: Step together step.

Cut: Quick displacement of one standing leg by the other while remaining on the same spot.

Fan kick: A kick in which the working leg makes a sweeping arc in front of the body.

Fondue: A bending of one's standing leg all the way from relevé to plié.

Grapevine: A series of steps that move sideways with a side, back, side, front pattern.

Hitchkick: A scissor-like movement where one leg is in the air while the other leg kicks up to pass it.

Isolations: Movement of only one part of the body.

Jazz walk: Many varieties but generally a turned out low walk using shoulder opposition. 

Jazz pas de bourree: A back-side-front three step move in the floor pattern of an isosceles triangle.

Jazz square: A crossed front-back-back-front four step move in the floor pattern of a square.

Mambo: A front/back, back/front step with hips swiveling in a figure 8.

Piqué: A step onto half toe with a straight leg from a plié standing leg.

Relevé: A lift onto the toes.

Step: Transferring weight fully onto a foot.

Touch: A placement of the working toe or foot on the floor without shifting weight to it.