Where is the line between jazz and lyrical dance?

I'm teaching a class and it's technically jazz... but how much lyrical can i do?|||When I teach jazz, I do most of the warm ups and isolation and across the floor with technical jazz exercises. Then when I give combos to learn each week I will change up the styles.





Sometimes a lyrical feel, sometimes a salsa feel, sometimes broadway, you get the idea. It is good for the students to get used to different styles, when they go to an audition you'll never know what style they will encounter. So I try to prepare them for anything. This is more work for me as a teacher since I am not comfortable at teaching all those different styles, I have "my" styles that work for me and I love. It stretches me artistically and makes me work outside of class to make sure I give my students the best experience I can.





So my advice is give them lyrical, but not only lyrical....expand their minds and bodies to a multitude of styles!|||You can do a little lyrical, not for the recital dance, but across the floor would be fine, as "a taste of lyrical." You can add some lyrical turns to your dance if the music is soft enough, but if you're doing a strictly Broadway type jazz song, I'd reccomend no lyrical. Then again, you're the teacher, so I'd say you can draw the line wherever you want.|||A LOT