that they have in the community. These dance groups are meant to keep the youths and children occupied and distracted from all the problems that have been going on in their community, such as the LA riot. The two styles of dancing are Clowning and Krumping. Clowning was created by Tommy the Clown in 1992. Tommy used to be a formal drug dealer, he went from having his life together to losing all his money and house. However, instead of doing nothing productive with his life, he decided to help his community
Albert Einstein once said “Dancers are the athletes of God.” Dancers deserve to have the title of athlete, to start, take a look at the definition of an athlete “a person trained or gifted in exercises or contests involving physical agility, stamina, or strength.” While dancing requires great artistry, artistry is just one aspect of dance, because it clearly has an athletic side as well. Dancer’s athletic side is not seen by many because of the reality of what people see on stage, but is what is
involves dancing style called krumping. This movie/ documentary has clowns krumping. Apparently when this documentary was filmed, clowns and krumping was a huge thing at the time. Krumping is a hip hop style that is characterized by aggravation or anger with the movement of arms and legs. When people krump, it may seem like they are hitting each other but that is not true. They pretend to hit each other to give off an angry effect. If a person has never heard or seen krumping before, he or she would think
cultural appropriation issue in hip-hop against white rapper? Does hip-hop belong to belong to only black people? What are the marketing strategies used in hip-hop in selling to its consumers? What is the movement or expression behind the hip-hop dance ‘Krumping’? Do rappers use hip-hop as a platform to
The Art of Dance “Dance, the art of precise, expressive, and graceful human movement, traditionally, but not necessarily, performed in accord with musical accompaniment. Dancing developed as a natural expression of united feeling and action.” To many, dance is only an art. In reality, dance is much more. It 's an art, a sport, a way to express one’s self, a way to exercise, a way to get feelings out. Since the beginning of time, humans have used different types of dance to express themselves. There
In the 1987 drama film Dirty Dancing, Frances “Baby” Houseman a sweetheart, and daddy’s little girl were full of ambitions that her parents dream of her achieving. Her life was full of expectations she had to meet. Until she became infatuated with Johnny Castle, the camp’s dancer instructor who sends her life in a spiral of dance and love. The is similar to the drama film in 2012, Step Up Revolution where as young dancer Emily who’s also a sweetheart, daddy’s little girl who lives up to an ambition
fact, the performance is misleading seeing as it is paired with very formal and controlled dances such as the Pavane and the minuet. In fact, modern historians such as Mark Knowles have compared the Waltz to social hip hop dances of today such as “krumping and grinding” since through the ages social dances have been “manifestations of society’s beliefs, values, attitudes, confusions, and concerns.” If the performance was to correctly convey this notion, it would have beneficial to place the nineteenth
David LaChapelle is an incredible, modern photographer. He combines celebrities with the bizarre. His photography is unique, charged with sexual imagery, and provides a unique view on people you see in the media, today. I chose an article from American Photo, May/June 2003, as the basis of my research paper on David LaChapelle. The magazine has a nice design. It is easy to read the print, and the titles of topics are always visible. You won't turn a page and have to take a minute to figure