What exactly is the concept of hiphop dance genre?

Open Category: Music, Culture, Art, Hip-Hop, DJ Hip-Hop is the cultural term for rap, graffiti, street dance, street ball, B-BOX, and DJs, to name a few; Rap originated in the 1960s, while Hip-Hop, as understood as music, originated in the early 1970s, and it was preceded by RAP ( Sometimes with a little R(B). Hip-Hop literally means Hip is hip and Hop is hopping on one foot, and together they add up to a light twisting and swinging of the hips, originally referring to street dance in its infancy stage (what we used to call breakdancing) before it evolved into a huge concept - what we now call Hip -Hip-hop culture also includes those baggy clothes, heavy gold jewelry, and the habit of saying, "YoYo what's up? It's all about the lifestyle of black people in America's ghetto neighborhoods and their "style". The origins of Hip-Hop can be summarized by the word "poor". Why do they wear one size bigger? In addition to the convenience of sports, black families were often large and had little income, so older brothers wore smaller clothes and gave them to their younger brothers, thus creating the style of huge clothes; why graffiti? This stuff was first used as a sign to divide the spheres of influence between the various gangs in the neighborhood, and only later did it become more and more beautiful and refined, developing into folk art; why was there street dance? Because they didn't have the money to go to the dance halls, and racial discrimination still existed at that time, so even if they had the money, they couldn't necessarily have a good time in the white people's dance halls; why is pure Hip-Hop predominantly black and always with foul language? Because these young black street kids had no future and no hope, and they hated more than they loved. History

The so-called Hip-Hop Dance is one of the most popular types of street dance. If we look at it from the point of view of dance, it can be divided into two categories: NEW SCHOOL and OLD SCHOOL. How to differentiate between these two genres? We can differentiate them by the era and the type of movement or music. In fact, Hip-Hop is the generic term for all kinds of street dance.

In fact, the so-called BREAKING DANCE or OLD SCHOOL is also a kind of hip-hop. This kind of OLD SCHOOL dance contains locking (lock dance), popinG (mechanical dance), breakinG (breakdancing), WAvE (current) these things (this kind of breakdancing style of dance famous group is Rock Steady Crew). It originated from the improvisational dance moves of American street dancers. These street dancers were mostly black or Mexican. Perhaps the so-called "poor man's entertainment", the popular street dance originated in Brooklyn, New York, USA (a neighborhood inhabited by poor blacks and Mexicans). These black and Mexican children all day in the street mixing, dancing, naturally line into a variety of factions, but also very naturally in the dance they jumped on the development of different styles.

The evolution of hip-hop dance

The key to the evolution of OlD SCHOOl to NEW SCHOOl. It goes back to the early days of OlD SCHOOOl music, which had very fast beats to match the breakinG moves, and as hip-hop music evolved people started to realize that breakinG didn't fit in with the NEW SCHOOOl hip-hop music (because the so-called NEW SCHOOOl music is slower, and if you're on the slower side, you're going to be on the slower side), and it's going to be a lot more difficult for the breakinG to fit into the NEW SCHOOOl hip-hop music. Hip-hop music in the windmill or row legs (footwork) and other movements, will feel a little explosive power is not, and even lose its sense of dance.) At this point OlD SCHOOl and NEW SCHOOl's dance began to separate, it was in 1986 or so early NEW SCHOOl's dance steps are very simple, such as the familiar "slide" (Running Man) This in the previous MC HAMMER and Bobby Brown's vIDEO's can be seen ..... Maybe we can call this "awesome" hip-hop dance FUNKING DANCE.

The emergence of NEW SCHOOl Hip-Hop

However, from today's point of view, these popular street dances of MC HAMMER and Bobby Brown's time have gradually turned into OlD SCHOOl. Because in the early '92, there was a black dance group called MOP TOP (ElITE FORCE) (by HENRY link ........). BUDDHA STRETCH. BUDDHA STRETCH), and they developed a new style of hip-hop, which I call "indigenous hip-hop". It's not like the big, explosive, wide-range moves of MC Hammer and Bobby Brown, and it doesn't have the gymnastic moves on the floor that breakdancing has. His unique style is that he focuses on the coordination of the body (what we call rhythm). He emphasizes on the rhythm of the upper body and adds a lot of hand movements. It's not like the old style of hip-hop where the focus was on wide range of movement and footwork. Henry may have started out as an unknown street dancer, but it was when Mike Jackson's Remabe the Time MTv came out that people first saw this new style of what I call "in situ" dancing. This new style of dance was introduced in the world's King of Pop's MTv, and it was an instant hit. We can't say what made Mr. Henry so popular. But the dance in Remabe the Time was his masterpiece. Later on in Malia Kelly's Dreamlover MTv, we see a grassy field with a bunch of black guys in nothing but pants dancing in a strange style. These dances are mixed with hip-hop, locking, popinG, and WAvE. But with Dreamlover's R&B style hip-hop music. We couldn't believe what we were seeing. It was hard to tell what kind of dance it was. But it was an important part of the history of NEW SCHOOl hip-hop, and it was the origin of the worldwide popularity of NEW SCHOOl.

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HENRY link (right) of MOP TOP (Elite Force). lOOSE JOINT. BUDDHA STRETCH (left) also served as a referee for JAPAN DANCE DElIGHT episodes 2 and 4.

The mature stage of NEW SCHOOl hip-hop

The so-called NEW SCHOOl hip-hop, as I define it, is the combination of different types of dance in a fast, slow hip-hop or R&B song. (This is also a type of NEW SCHOOl early) we see this song Dreamlover in this group of black dance group led by Henry, made a difficult to understand the dance moves, they can only be used with the fast-paced locking (lock dance) in the R& B slow dance rhythms with a new feeling to express it, they no longer do this kind of certainty, but also a new way to make the dance. They no longer do this kind of must be similar to nunchaku like throwing arm like action to show locking (lock dance), they simplify a lot of locking (lock dance) action. And to the standard hip-hop left and right type of rhythm to show POPING (machine dance) and locking (lock dance), but also from time to time in the dance with WAvE (current) things. Simply put, it is to interpret the old dance steps with a new feeling. The new single "Jingle Bells" released by ZOO, a famous Japanese street dance group and singer, also uses this kind of NEW SCHOOL Hip-Hop to express the dance in the MTv. ...... This new style of hip-hop has become popular all over the world.

Since then, HENRY has been the choreographer for Mariah Carey's song "Fantasy" and the recent "Honey", as well as the song "Creep" by TLC, a female hip-hop group that disbanded after a short period of time, and the MTV of the movie "MIB" (Man in Black). We're slowly realizing that this kind of Hip-Hop is starting to mature. (Of course, HENRY can be seen in these MTVs as well.) The most famous of these was TlC's Waterfalls MTV, which featured the "magical shoulder shaking" move that took NEW SCHOOL Hip-Hop to a whole new level.

The current NEW SCHOOL Hip-Hop DANCE

When this NEW SCHOOL Hip-Hop became popular in Japan, the Japanese developed their own style of dance, which is also hard to understand. These Japanese Hip-Hop dancers started doing NEW SCHOOL Hip-Hop with OLD SCHOOL music. NEW SCHOOL originated as a new musical expression of old dance styles. The origin of NEW SCHOOL was to express old dances with new music styles, but now it's turning into new dances interpreted with old music styles. It's really a strange thing.

In terms of movement, recent NEW SCHOOL Hip-Hop has changed a lot, especially with the addition of the WAvE (current) stuff, which has become more irregular. From the audience's point of view, it seems that the NEW SCHOOl dancers are "polio" patients, because the body is twisting more and more and there is less and less of what is called regularity in the dance.

Hip-Hop Dance is also regionalized

We can divide it into NEW YORK STYLE and L.A. STYLE. These two regions have polarized styles. For example, NEW YORK STYLE is the style that we usually see in which the body is twisted and distorted and all kinds of street dances are performed in a big way. Perhaps NEW YORK is HENRY's home base, so naturally this region's hip-hop style is also more inclined to HENRY's style, in situ dance with the body's strange distortions and LOCKING (locking dance), POPING (machine dance), WAvE (machine dance). WAvE (current) these things of the General Assembly string, it is not difficult to imagine that it is a kind of black casual style.

And L.A. STYlE's Hip-Hop, it inherited the continuation of MC HAMMER and Bobby Brown period of popular street dance. The big movements and changes in footwork have retained their explosive character. Only in the change of movement added a lot of new patterns. Because hip-hop is divided into these two major factions, many dancers or magazines no longer refer to them collectively as hip-hop DANCE. They refer to NEW YORK STYLE hip-hop as NEW SCHOOl and L.A. STYLE hip-hop as STREET DANCE.

What exactly is NEW SCHOOl hip-hop? SCHOOl hip-hop?

In a nutshell, NEW SCHOOl hip-hop encompasses all types of street dance, including locking, popin', wavin', and the rhythms of the MC HAMMER and Bobby Brown eras. You just don't see breakinG DANCE in NEW SCHOOl hip-hop. As mentioned above, it is a fusion of various street dance styles, so perhaps we can say that it is a kind of integrated dance. However, the scope of NEW SCHOOl DANCE is wider now, not only adding many kinds of dance fusion, such as popin', boogie (boogie), but also a wider range of materials! Some people abroad think that "NEW SCHOOl's moves are much simpler than those of the 90's, such as the windmill and the HEAdsPIN", but NEW SCHOOl's moves also require technique, which is similar to the concept of footwork in breakdancing. Although it's casual, it also involves a lot of technique, but OLD SCHOOL is not as simple as NEW SCHOOl, and it has a lot of technique. Which is better, OLD SCHOOL or NEW SCHOOL? We can't really make a distinction or comparison. But we don't know when there will be a newer style of street dance, and when that happens .... The NEW SCHOOL that we have now is going to become history. It will become another kind of OLD SCHOOL.

Hip-Hop was originally a form of subculture with a counter-cultural bias, and its destructive and folkloric nature runs counter to what we traditionally think of as pop culture. But given the current situation, it seems that it has not only become an important part of mainstream culture, but is also rapidly rising, spreading and developing. One reasonable explanation for this is that in this increasingly metaphysical age of ours, life and entertainment need more than moving, pure love, nobility and seriousness; we also need funny, heartless, underhanded and shameless styles that dare to defy all others - I'm telling the truth, our cultural life is indeed too short of these. If there is a so-called hope or direction for hip-hop in China, I believe it should start from these places, and I'm afraid it's hard to make a difference when entering the market in the current rush to pander to mainstream music. Currently the main hip-hop participants and audiences are young, mostly born around 1980, and these hip-hoppers who started to come into contact with hip-hop culture when they were in middle school in the mid-90s will grow up as the first generation of Chinese hip-hop. As they grow up, it is believed that Chinese Hip-Hop culture will become more and more recognized, just as Rock and Roll is no longer seen as an anomaly today after a decade or so, and just as Japanese comics and video games are gradually surfacing. Hip-Hop is a culture, it doesn't single out one thing. It's not about wearing a big polo shirt, wearing an APE hat, stepping on DUNK shoes, and hanging a big chain around your neck that makes it Hip-Hop, but more importantly, it's about the spirit. Hip-Hop: Hip is ass, Hop is the meaning of jumping, Hip-Hop music in the 70's refers exclusively to black people from R&B (rhythm and blues), but with R&B is very different, emphasizing the dance hall in the D.J. Remix skills in the pure dance music, this kind of music in the 80's due to the addition of the Scratch (will be the record intermittent inversion of the put, and issued with the special effect of the friction sound of the needle. This kind of music in the 80's due to the addition of Scratch (the record is played backwards intermittently, which makes a special effect with the needle friction sound) and the unique black street style rhyming corner of the vernacular to form the Rap music, so it can be said that Hip-Hop is the predecessor of the Rap, but today the two terms can often be mixed, but the Rap emphasizes the Rap, while the Hip-Hop tends to refer to the Beat (beat) obviously strong pop dance music. Graffiti: Graffiti, parsed in the dictionary as drawing or writing on a public wall, is nowadays a tradition of spray-painting and street forms of graffiti art that has had an impact on artists around the world. In the early days of Hip-Hop, graffiti artists were used to design flyers and posters for the promotion of Hip-Hop dance parties as a sales tool. However, by the 1980s, when Hip-Hop had been widely introduced and accepted by the public, there was a period of time when Hip-Hop was not about selling culture and did not bring the early forms of graffiti with it. Graffiti, both in terms of special techniques and spray paint, also had an impact on art forms, such as the angry graffiti of the Mexican Revolution. Today, in gang-infested American cities, warnings of turf and threats of violence are communicated through graffiti.