So many types of dances, so many ways to rejoice! Dance is a sure accompaniment to celebration. Every culture, every country has specific dances it loves to perform at functions and ceremonies. Dance has been the defining point of many cultures. Many dances remained to the geographical boundaries of the place of their origin but others moved on, moved to various lands to become more popular than other dance forms, to cross all the borders and to be seen as pure art leaving behind all prejudices of race and country.
One of many such dances is the hip hop. Primarily an African- American dance, hip hop has come to be one of the most popular of dance forms. From television to films to parties to the street, the influence of hip hop is to be seen everywhere. The dance style is casual and funky. The dance is mostly free style and improvisational. No fixed rules or particular movements guide the dance. The dance comprises of three main styles namely breaking, locking and popping. The three elements that make up the core of the dance are free styling, battles and ciphers.
The dance came out of the shadows over 30 years ago in 1970s. The most popular groups to which the credit goes for the popularization of the dance are Rock Steady Crew, The Lockers and The Electric Boogaloos. With time the dance form evolved to include “running man” and the “cabbage patch” and together they became the fad dances.
The commercial dance industry soon picked up the signs that hip hop is going to hit it big time. Dance concerts, movies and television started using the dance as a money making machine. And sure enough anything with the hip hop added was an instant success.
Now hip hop is seen as a flourishing genre in dance that has a good amount of potential. There are special dance classes and dance events that are held for hip hop. It is sure traveling places and becoming evidently more popular day by day.
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