What Is Hip Hop?
What is Hip Hop?
Hip hop is a style of dance that combines movements such as popping, locking, breaking, krumping, and jazz-funk. Hip hop is used to express individuality and has often been credited with helping to reduce inner-city gang violence by replacing violence with dance battles.
What is Contemporary Dance?
Contemporary dance is a style that lets you express yourself, has a lot of versatility and improvisation, unlike the strict and structured nature of ballet. Contemporary dance focuses on floorwork, using gravity to pull dancers down to the floor. Contemporary dance can be performed to many different styles of music. Pioneers of contemporary dance include Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham.
Discuss the specific character you will be portraying in this dance. What quality of movement will you have to perform on stage to create this character? …show more content…
We use ‘lazy’ movements to dance through the stage during the slower songs (Drake), and fast, sharp movements when big beat drops occur (Justin Bieber). Our contemporary dance is opposite to the style and movements of our hip hop dance. The contemporary dance has a lot of accents in the movement, and tons of music perfect for arm extensions and lifts. During our performance we have to act like we’re in the middle of a big snowstorm and we’re hoping to
Hip hop is a style of dance that combines movements such as popping, locking, breaking, krumping, and jazz-funk. Hip hop is used to express individuality and has often been credited with helping to reduce inner-city gang violence by replacing violence with dance battles.
What is Contemporary Dance?
Contemporary dance is a style that lets you express yourself, has a lot of versatility and improvisation, unlike the strict and structured nature of ballet. Contemporary dance focuses on floorwork, using gravity to pull dancers down to the floor. Contemporary dance can be performed to many different styles of music. Pioneers of contemporary dance include Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham.
Discuss the specific character you will be portraying in this dance. What quality of movement will you have to perform on stage to create this character? …show more content…
We use ‘lazy’ movements to dance through the stage during the slower songs (Drake), and fast, sharp movements when big beat drops occur (Justin Bieber). Our contemporary dance is opposite to the style and movements of our hip hop dance. The contemporary dance has a lot of accents in the movement, and tons of music perfect for arm extensions and lifts. During our performance we have to act like we’re in the middle of a big snowstorm and we’re hoping to