Eugene Louis Faccuito (March 20, 1925 – April 7, 2015), known professionally as Luigi, was an American jazz dancer, choreographer, teacher, and innovator who created the jazz exercise technique. The Luigi Warm Up Technique is a training program that promotes body alignment, balance, core strength, and "feeling from the inside."[1] It is also used for rehabilitation. This method became the world's first standard technique for teaching jazz and musical theater dance.
Faccuito developed the technique, which consists of a series of ballet-based exercises, for his rehabilitation after suffering paralyzing injuries in a car accident at the age of twenty one. He couldn't stop dancing, so he first learned to regain control of his body by what he uses as a cornerstone of his technique – namely, to "lengthen and stretch the body without strain" and "put the good side into the bad side." He then focused on a way "to stabilize himself – as if he were pressing down on an invisible (dance) barre."[2] e went on to have a successful dance career and became a world-renowned jazz teacher.[3][4]
^Luigi's Jazz Warm Up and Introduction to Jazz Style & Technique, a Dance Horizons Book, Princeton Book Company, Publishers, by Luigi, Lorraine Person Kriegel and Francis J. Roach, 1997, page 6
^Dance Spirit, December 2009, Luigi's Legacy by Lauren Kay, page 60
^Profile Archived 2013-02-18 at the Wayback Machine, swingapore.com; accessed April 18, 2015.
^Straus, Rachel (August 2007). "Teacher's Wisdom: Luigi". Dance Magazine. Archived from the original on April 17, 2015. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
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