Judi Sheppard Missett - The Jazzercise Workout (1986) [SEALED] Vinyl LP + BOOK

Catalog Number: PA-115

Record Grading: Mint (M), Sleeve Grading: Mint (M)

Condition Details:

Release date is approximate. Unopened/new vinyl, factory sealed, and in excellent condition. A few creases near edges. Faint discoloration (front/back). Spine has no text. Dent in top/bottom-right corner. (Hole-punch in top-right.)

Tracks:

• I Just Called To Say I Love You
• Live A Virgin
• Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go
• Neutron Dance
• Baby Come Back To Me
• I Feel For You
• Better Be Good To Me
• Loverboy
• Thief Of Hearts
• Walking On A Thin Line
• Skylark

About The Record:

Judi Sheppard Missett created Jazzercise in Evanston, Illinois in 1969 as a student at Northwestern University. She was teaching at a dance studio and noticed her classes had high dropout rates. Realizing students were attending for physical fitness and not to become highly technically proficient in dance, Shepard Missett began to hold "just for fun" classes that began with a jazz warmup. These classes were eventually renamed "Jazzercise." Jazz dance came relatively late into Missett's life-in 1966, just after she graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in theater and dance. She signed up to study with renowned jazz choreographer Gus Giordano at his Evanston studios. "(When) I started to study jazz dance technique . . . I thought, `This is for me!' " she says. She loved the funkiness and the pulsing energy of both the dance style and the music. Giordano invited her to dance in his company and become one of his instructors, which she did.