The Evolution of Dance

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“Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain (Vivian Greene).” For some, dance is life; for others dance is just a fun thing to do when you’re with friends or at a party. Dance has many different styles and types. Dance is always evolving and will most likely never stop. Dance has changed over the years; new dances have been introduced and older dances have gone out of style.

There are many types of dance; It all depends on the person you talk to (sv;sv).

Hip-hop is one of the most well known types of dance. Hip-hop became widely known after the first professional street based crews formed in the 1970’s (Maureen). Dance fads were and still are very popular. Some dance fads of the 1990’s were: The Running Man, the Worm, the Cabbage Patch (a,b,c) (Maureen). Social dances that were popular during that time were the Cha cha slide, and the Dougie. The most widely known is the Electric Slide (Maureen). Urban line dances that were created from hip-hop songs of the same name were: The Cha-Cha slide, the Cupid Shuffle, and the Soulja Boy. Hip- hop is not a studio-derived style, it is a sub-genre centered on call-and-response vocals and the endlessly sampled Triggaman beat (Maureen). “The history of Hip-Hop dance encompasses the people and events since the late 1960’s that have contributed to the development of early hip-hop dance styles: Uprock, Locking, Roboting, Boogaloo, and Popping.” Black and Latino Americans created Uprock and Breaking in New York City (Maureen). Black Americans in California created Locking, Roboting, Boogeloo, and Popping, also known as funk styles (Maureen). “When there was and issue over turf, the 2 warlords of the feuding gangs would Uprock and whoever won this pr...

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...thout it some people wouldn’t know how to express themselves and too them it’s considered a big part of life.

Throughout my paper I have informed you on the many types of dance styles: new and old, popular and out of style, provocative and old school (A and B, C and D, E and F). I have also given you an idea of what dance is; what clothes are worn, how rhythm and song choice are both very important, and why people dance. Dance is always changing; dances go out of style and new ones come about. But the one thing that stays the same is the passion dancers have for what they do.

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