Hip Hop Dance Research Paper

As something new and you haven’t experience before, you’ll never know what you are capable of. The power of a human is from themselves; their hands, their body, their mind. We all have the capability of either sticking to what we are comfortable with, or we can take on the challenge of something new. Hip-hop dancing has been my solid ground where I stood over the course of eight years. As I grow, I want to start learning how I can transcend my skills and discover something new. As part of my research, I want to develop the idea of what type of dance I should newly put my attention towards where it will expand my horizons and further help the skills I have this present. Since I was young, I have had the passion of dancing. I’ve had this strucken …show more content…
We train and practice like any other football player or track star would as building endurance and strength to prepare ourselves for the future. We have to perform in ways where out facial expression and energy has to create an emotion or story for the audience to see and understand. Every dance I have seen perform has a different story to tell. For example, hip-hop has representative of being tough and in power of whatever is around them. Ballet has front of elegance and classy personality, and it goes on. Dancing comes out in all different types of styles, cultures, and techniques. It shows a story within their dancing and type of music they perform it …show more content…
It has native, upper class European, and African influences because of its indigenous roots, music appreciation, and polycentric movement. In modern day, Latin dance is very “enjoyed by spectators in competitions and ballrooms” (McFarland). The mood of the dance is usually self-expressed, passionate and engaging. It is known for their fast paced, whole footsteps, sensational, and rhythmic expression. Latin dance involves five dances; Cha-Cha (energetic and sassy), Rumba (“dance of love", danced to romantic Latin love songs), Samba (often difficult to master, lively Brazilian dance consisting of many jumps and turns, extremely fast dance), Paso Doble (lively, march-like dance with significantly less hip movement), and Jive (variation of the Jitterbug). Throughout all these varieties of Latin dancing, these dances offers a rich cultural history and influences which presents itself as true and incline where they first