Modern Jive originated in France as a blend between the American GI's jitter bug and the smoother French rock and roll varieties and over time developed to encompass an eclectic mix of moves from Jive, Dirty Dancing and other styles of dance. Le Bop has now diverged from all other dance styles and is a complete style in its own right. Set to today’s dance music as heard on commercial radio and night clubs, Le bop is an extremely popular and addictive dance style!

As a very open style of dance, it is able to borrow moves, shapes and feelings from all other dance styles; and with no emotion imbued within the dance, any piece of music can be interpreted by the dancers as they see fit. Where rhumba is the “dance of love”, samba is “a party” and tango is a “game of cat and mouse”, Modern Jive is a blank canvas providing an amazing scope for dancers and choreographers to express themselves. Add to this the acrobatic moves, dips and tricks and modern jive is an exciting new dance style with almost limitless possibilities!