MAPEH W1 - Hip Hop and Contemporary Dance Flashcards
Health Benefits of Dancing
stronger and toned muscles
alternative weight loss
improves cardiovascular, strength, balance, agility, and other fitness components
develops personal satisfaction and better social skills
any form of dance derived from popular music combined with street dance, choreography, or dance movements that jive with the beat
Hip Hop
Hip Hop Dance Styles
Popping
Locking
Breaking
Krumping
Tutting
Shuffling
Waacking
Isolation
Vogue
based on the techniques of quickly contracting and relaxing muscles to cause a jerk in a dancer’s body
Popping
usually performed by stopping the fast movements, locking the body into a position, holding it and continuing at the same speed as before
Locking
moving the body parts individually. Isolate your arm, head, and chest to create a robotic type of move
Isolation
also called breakdancing
Breaking
Dancers are called b-boy or b-girl or breakers.”
Breaking
consists of stylized posing and fast synchronized arm movements to the beat of the music; the strong swinging and sweeping of the arms in dramatic rapid succession
Waacking
imitates the perfect lines and poses of models as depicted in fashion magazines
Vogue
a creative way of making geometric shapes forming right angles using your body parts
Tutting
a dance style to release anger
Krumping
consists of fast heel-and-toe action with a style suitable for various electronic music
Shuffling
an expressive dance technique that is a combination of a variety of dances; dance performance closely related to modern dance, ballet, and other classical dance styles; combination of strong footwork techniques with modern dance’s improvisation characteristics
Contemporary Dance
Dancer of the Century - Time Magazine, Icons of the Century - People Magazine
Martha Graham
Merce Cunningham,Martha Graham
Dance is a form of expressing one’s freedom through movement.
