Hip hop Flashcards
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What is Hip Hop?
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- creative, street dancing, no rules, expressive, body isolation
- celebrates music and how the body movements
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Where did it come from?
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Originated in New York areas (Harlem, the Bronx) in the 1970s- 1980s
3
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Who dances it?
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- recognized for 40 years
- began as a safe creative outlet for youth to release energy
- battles were about more than dance
- all ethnicities, ages and levels dance in hip hop
4
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Hip Hop vs Break Dancing
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Hip Hop
- origin in new york, 1970s and 1980s
- refers to a culture of people in a specific area
5
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Hip Hop: People
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- Electric boogaloos
- Micheal Jackson
- Twitch
- tabitha and napoleon
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Hip Hop: Moves/styles
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- vogueing
- house crump
- animation
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Break Dancing vs Hip Hop
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Break Dancing
- origin new york 1970-1980
- refers to a break in the music and the moves that can be inserted there
8
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Break Dancing: People
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- Dj Cool Herk
- Electric Boogaloos
- Jabbawockeez
- Quest Crew
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Break Dancing: Moves/styles
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- powermoves
- stalls
- popping
- locking
- 6 step
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Hip Hop: Vogueing (background)
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- 1970s harlem
- underprivileged people
- to be the most royal, prestigious, greatest thing in your own personal space
- prominent in gay community
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Vogueing: Static posing
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- commercial selling(happy, and, sad)
- catalogue (selling stuff)
- couture (selling attitude)
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Vogueing: Dynamic posing
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- womens runway: slow powerful
- mens calvin klein: triangle turn
- Mens sean john: harlem gangster, prison pose
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Hip Hop: House dance (background)
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- new york and chicago
- influenced by: disco, latin dances, waacking, vogueing, roller skate dancing
- house dance is a social dance. Based on feeling, movement comes from musical experimentation
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House Dance the jack
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- most commonly front and back
- feeling of body in relation to the music
15
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House dance lofting
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any movement on the floor
