Alphabetical Solo Jazz Dance steps

What is Solo Jazz dancing and Why?

Solo Jazz dancing is a dynamic and expressive dance style, created in the early of the 20th centuries. It originates from a mixture of afroamerican-dances, ballet and Jazz music.

It is danced solo, in duo or in groups. Moreover, it finds usage in various other dance forms such as Lindy Hop, Blues, Balboa or even Hip Hop. —

Dance Steps in alphabetical order

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Apple Jack

Around The World

Bee’s Knees

Ball Change

Birds

Black Bottom

Boogie Back

Boogie Drop

Boogie Forward

Boogie Step

Box Step

Break A Leg (Broken Legs)

Breeze Knees

Brush Step

Bunny Hop

Cake Walk

Camel Walk

Charleston 20th

Charleston 30th

Charleston 40th (Lindy Charleston)

Chase

Corkscrew

Cow Tail (Cartwheel)

Crawls

Crazy Legs (Rebel legs)

Cross Kicks / Run on the Log

Cross Over

Duck Steps

Duck Walk

Double Kicks

Drunken Sailor

Eagle Slide

Fall Off The Log (+variations)

Fish Tail

Flying Charleston

Full Break (+variations)

Gaze Afar

Jump Heel Click (Holubec)

Grapewine

Halliluya (Rocks)

Half Break

Hangman

Happy Feet

Helicopter Kicks (Hop Around)

Heels Click

Heels

Hips Grinding

Hitchhiker

Hot Potatoes

Inside The Leg

Itches

Jig walks

Jump

Jump Charleston (+variations)

Jump Kick Slide

Jump Toe Kick step

Kicks

Kick Around

Kick Ball Change Slide

Knee Slaps

Knee Rocks

Lockstep Back

Lockstep Front (Cross Turn)

London Bridge

Lowdown (Funky Butt)

Mambo Step

Mess Around

Moonslide

Opposites

Over the Top (Ankle Step)

Paddle Turn

Pimp Walk

Pecking (Pecks)

Pivots (Pivot steps)

Poni Walk

Precision Charleston

Pushes

Ride The Pony

Rythmes

Rocks

Run Run

Rusty Dusty

Sailor Kicks

Savoy Kicks

Scarecrow

Scissors

Shim Sham Break

Shim Sham Step

Skating

Shish-Ka-Boom-Ba

Shish-Ka-Boom-Ba II

Shoe-Shine

Shouts

Shorty George

Skips

Slides

Slip Slop

Snake Hips (Mooche)

Snake Legs

Shimmy

Spank The Baby

Stomps

Step Somp Stomp

Stomp Off (+variations)

Suzie Q

Squat Charleston

Sweep Charleston

Tappy The Cat

Tackie Annie

Tic Tocs

Tracking / Truckin'

Traveling Charleston

Trenches

Trip Over

Tripple Steps

Triplets

Turkey Trots

Twists

Which-A-Ways

Zigzag

Additional Literature

1. History of popular solo jazz dance steps (SecretsOfSolo)