Jabbawockeez Research Paper

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The Jabbawockeez is a group that started in San Diego, California. They then was part of the first season of American’s Best Dance Crew, in which they won that year. They danced to Hip-hop and it was a group that contained six teenage male members. Their costume consisted of a white masked that covered their faces, white gloves and a under body suit that covered their necks as well as their arms.
According to the YouTube video titled “Jabbawockeez at world of Dance Bay Area 2014” the Jabbawockeez danced to a mixture of different hip-hop songs. Their outfits was a black hat, a black shirt, khaki pants and white sneakers. They’re faces was covered as well as their hands, neck and arms. Their outfits were outfits ordinary people will wear out in the streets. Them wearing regular street clothes as well as covering themselves up made it seem like it could be anyone. For me the Jabbawockeez deciding to cover up, lead me to believe that gender doesn’t play a role. Which is why
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But they’re not just stand in the side, they’re actually kneeing down while someone is in the middle moving his arms and pointing to the member who’s doing the solo. This is good because they’re not taking the attention away from the person who is doing the solo. I have also noted that even though they were separated at times, the energy was always there.
Overall, the Jabbawockeez danced to mostly hip-hop, and most of their dance routine more especially the YouTube video “Jabbawockeez at world of Dance Bay Area 2014” was similar to a lot of the movements we do in dance class, because not only is it a similar footwork but it’s involves the same moments which requires the same techniques and energy. Their clothes played a role in the dance and it also lead the dancers to connect to the audience more because they look like one of

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