Hip Hop Dance History
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Dancing isn't only physical but it is emotional because it expresses your feelings and who you are inside. Dancing shows your inner talent and abilities that can take you far. It's also about entertainment whether it's choreography or free style. Hip hop dance has a short history since most of other type of dances like ballroom, ballet, jazz, and modern started in the early 1900s.
Hip hop dancing began in New York City during the late 1960s and early 70s. During this time, people without professional dance training brought dancing to the streets because they enjoyed it. Hip hop dance was meant for people and not for the academy since hip hop moves were inspired by complex rhythms and the down-to-earth movement style of African dancing. …show more content…
The East Coast discovered hip hop dance when DJ Herc started an informal performance career and was the first DJ to make unique music by playing two record machines with the same record on both. The rhythms he created were one of the important founding elements of hip hop and dancers were able to show off their moves. The West Coast discovered hip hop dance because they were inspired by the robots in the movies.
When hip hop first started, b-boys and b-girls would be invited to show off their moves by other people on the street. As the moves like break dance, popping, and locking became more established, and more dancers got caught up in the rhythms of the music, more dance battles occurred. The dancing was pretty formal but the competitive nature of hip hop remained.
In the 1980s and 90s more clubs featured hip hop DJs and dancers. There would be competitions and the professional dancers would get the floor to themselves and the others would watch. As these competitions became increasingly common and popular, announced …show more content…
Break dancing, which was established by Black Americans, is the most physically demanding as its more advanced routines involve intricate stunts that require incredible flexibility, strength, grace, and agility. You would have to support your body weight on your hands, as well as head spins, back spins and energetic tumbling moves. Popping, which was invented by Sam Solomon, is using the entire body and to be able to use strong, quick, and jerky relaxation of muscles. It involves the dancer contracting particular muscles, then quickly relaxing them. With locking, which was invented by Don Campbell, dances have to look more forced than flowing. It involves the dancer freezing their entire body. Different types of dance moves are tutting, shuffling, heel toe, crip walk, harlem shake, moonwalk, Soulja Boy, spongebob, stanky leg, dougie, pancake, cat daddy, jerking, twerking, chicken head, and many
Dancing isn't only physical but it is emotional because it expresses your feelings and who you are inside. Dancing shows your inner talent and abilities that can take you far. It's also about entertainment whether it's choreography or free style. Hip hop dance has a short history since most of other type of dances like ballroom, ballet, jazz, and modern started in the early 1900s.
Hip hop dancing began in New York City during the late 1960s and early 70s. During this time, people without professional dance training brought dancing to the streets because they enjoyed it. Hip hop dance was meant for people and not for the academy since hip hop moves were inspired by complex rhythms and the down-to-earth movement style of African dancing. …show more content…
The East Coast discovered hip hop dance when DJ Herc started an informal performance career and was the first DJ to make unique music by playing two record machines with the same record on both. The rhythms he created were one of the important founding elements of hip hop and dancers were able to show off their moves. The West Coast discovered hip hop dance because they were inspired by the robots in the movies.
When hip hop first started, b-boys and b-girls would be invited to show off their moves by other people on the street. As the moves like break dance, popping, and locking became more established, and more dancers got caught up in the rhythms of the music, more dance battles occurred. The dancing was pretty formal but the competitive nature of hip hop remained.
In the 1980s and 90s more clubs featured hip hop DJs and dancers. There would be competitions and the professional dancers would get the floor to themselves and the others would watch. As these competitions became increasingly common and popular, announced …show more content…
Break dancing, which was established by Black Americans, is the most physically demanding as its more advanced routines involve intricate stunts that require incredible flexibility, strength, grace, and agility. You would have to support your body weight on your hands, as well as head spins, back spins and energetic tumbling moves. Popping, which was invented by Sam Solomon, is using the entire body and to be able to use strong, quick, and jerky relaxation of muscles. It involves the dancer contracting particular muscles, then quickly relaxing them. With locking, which was invented by Don Campbell, dances have to look more forced than flowing. It involves the dancer freezing their entire body. Different types of dance moves are tutting, shuffling, heel toe, crip walk, harlem shake, moonwalk, Soulja Boy, spongebob, stanky leg, dougie, pancake, cat daddy, jerking, twerking, chicken head, and many