classical ballet and hip hop bear some remarkable differences, the similarities between the two styles of dance are self-evident when observing the costuming, technicality, and entertainment of each style. Dance has always played an important role in any culture, from the Mayans to today’s modern society; individuals are continuing to express themselves through movement. Different styles of dance have derived from other forms of traditional dances such as ballet. Every style of dance performed…
soundtrack and dances. with its fusion of Hip-hop and Ragtime themes integrated with Hip-hop dance into Ragtime style in such a way to give both a feeling of nostalgia and blossoming. Then there are those who are more conservative in the art tastes they expected from the film, questioning the remixes as a remote abomination. Are these critics right? Not to one degree, as the combination goes so very well together as to compliment both the rage of the 20s, as well as a fresh twist of hip-hop…
MY DANCE YEARS I was very excited about my first ballet/ jazz/ hip-hop dance class. That I was only five- years- old and I was tall for my age. I walked into the dance studio i was scared at first to make new friends, I met my dance teacher, she was nice, her name was Janet. Then after meeting my dance teacher I actually made a friend on the first day of dance class. The girl’s name was Kayln, she said she loved to dance just like me dancing really helped me to relax. I wanted to give up but I…
as the ambassador of hip-hop community brings something very different to the table. Rennie Harris is more than a hip-hop artist. He is the interpreter of hip-hop as a cultural ritual, one that celebrates his community’s core values and heritage, and invokes its innate spirit, says scholar and dance critic Suzanne Carbonneau. In 1992 Harris founded Rennie Harris Puremovement, in his hometown of Philadelphia. Harris uses his style, referred to on RHPM’s website as“hip-hop dance theatre,” to be an…
-free in 1989. Graffiti: Hip Hop Culture and Graffiti Today - Hip Hop Area In black noise (1994),Tricia rose discusses the origins of graffiti and it,s hip hop culture. Hip hop was born in New York city in the late 60s and early 70s in the face of inherently Racist development projects that were a brutal process of community destruction And relocated executed by municipal officials and under the direction of Legendary planner Robert Moore [Rose ,1994,P 30. Hip hop culture began as a…
Since their debut single “Cruise” was released in 2012, Tyler Hubbard and Brian Kelley of Florida Georgia Line have been busy proving themselves to the music industry with their incredible fusion of country, rock, hip-hop, and pop. The duo has earned several awards-including three consecutive Vocal Duo of the Year titles from both Country Music Association and Academy of Country Music. Their third studio album, Dig Your Roots, was just recently released in August 2016 including songs like…
for her mother and eventually began performing in shows at her local Dallas Theater Center. Badu graduated from Dallas' Booker T. Washington High School for Performing and Visual Arts, where she would flourish in the arts magnet school, focusing on dance and singing. Following her graduation from high school, she…
of music consist in the genre, Hip-hop music is classified in one of the category of music. Hip hop it self, has a meaning, which is combine between “Hip” and ”hop” or the combination between knowledge or intelligent and the action or relevant movement, and going through the music and become hip-hop music style. According to Laurence Krisna Parker: “Rap is something you do Hip Hop is something you live-”. Hip-hop is not about rapper and something you do, but hip-hop is something you live. In…
was the original purpose of Hip-hop music? The original purpose of Hip-hop music was to dance at get-togethers and other occasions like birthday parties or dances. It all first started on August 11,1973, DJ Kool Herc, a building resident, was entertaining at his sister’s back-to-school party. He tried something new on the turntable: he extended an instrumental beat to let people dance longer because he began to take notice that people got up on the part they like to dance on. Then he began to MC…
When the hip-hop era started back in 1970s in Bronx, New York, it was arguably predominately for African Americans. Now days, hip-hop are becoming more universal with different types of ethnicities. We see different types of ethnicities with hip-hop culture of graffiti, break dancing, and rapping. For example, the film 8 Mile and Step Up is about B-Rabbit and Tyler Gage who are both white pursuing hip-hop cultures such as break dancing and rapping. Both B-Rabbit and Tyler had struggles such as…