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First, let's go back to the beginnings: Hip hop (or hip-hop) is a culture that originated in the Bronx in the 1970s. Dance was a form of expression of this cultural and political movement from the ...
The Dance Presenting Series looks different today than it did in 1974, evolving and fighting to stay alive every step of the way. Fifty-one years ago, hip hop was born, too. The Dance Center’s ...
The Theatre & Dance Department is proud to house CU Boulder’s interdisciplinary certificate in Hip-hop Studies. This consolidated certificate program for matriculated undergraduate and graduate ...
Logan Edra grew up learning about the four elements of hip-hop: rapping, graffiti, DJing and breakdancing. Now, she’s taking that knowledge and her love for the Bronx-born street dance style to ...
The four-day “Dance of the Games” marks a triumphant moment for Merzouki, 50, whose hip-hop style, doubted 30 years ago, has proven its lasting appeal. “It's great to see that hip-hop dance ...
Dancers at the Colorado Dance Collective practice their dance moves during the Hip Hop Madness event at the Millennium Event Center in Greeley on Saturday. (Jim Rydbom/Staff Photographer) POTS, ...
The hip-hop ethos can trace its genealogy to the emergence in that decade of a black ideology that equated black strength and authentic black identity with a militantly adversarial stance toward ...
“I’ve been an Irish dancer for 20 years, and now I mix Irish dance with hip hop, dancehall and whatever I can figure out,” Sardin explained after starting to experiment in the 2010s.
Hip-hop, along with creative dance and folk dance, is listed as a “dance of contemporary rhythmic expression” in junior high school health and physical education materials, which are based on ...
We can’t lose this feeling of free dance.” Frozen appreciates the benefits of institutional projects and sponsors, how it offers financial opportunities, but insists that breaking and hip-hop ...
“It's great to see that hip-hop dance will be one of the major events watched by the whole world,” said Merzouki shortly after rehearsals at a choreographic center in Créteil, a suburb of Pari ...