Lesson 15: Fall Off The Log
Jazz Steps I: The Essentials
Welcome to this classic standard step of black vernacular dance. The main rhythmic idea of the step is accentuating the backbeat on the kick. In that moment the whole body gravitates to the ground. "Fall off the log (falling-off-the-log / falling off a log)- twisting movement consisting of shuffles and the alternate crossing and recrossing of one foot over the other, the body leaning sideways - from the book "Brotherhood in Rhythm: The Jazz Tap Dancing of the Nicholas Brothers" Falling-off-a-log is as well described as a step similar to Buffalo tap dance step but with a leaning pause added)
Welcome to this classic standard step of black vernacular dance. The main rhythmic idea of the step is accentuating the backbeat on the kick. In that moment the whole body gravitates to the ground. "Fall off the log (falling-off-the-log / falling off a log)- twisting movement consisting of shuffles and the alternate crossing and recrossing of one foot over the other, the body leaning sideways - from the book "Brotherhood in Rhythm: The Jazz Tap Dancing of the Nicholas Brothers" Falling-off-a-log is as well described as a step similar to Buffalo tap dance step but with a leaning pause added)