Category Archives for "Hip Hop"

Another Dance Controversy: Hip Hop Crews on Trains

about LaurieAnn , dance videos , dancing in the streets , Hip Hop , inspirational dancing , Outdoor Dancing , performance dance

  The other day on BART, three young hip hop dancers looking like street thugs started dancing and passing a hat.  They weren’t great, but they weren’t bad either.  And they were doing something joyful that took skill and not a little hard work and practice, for the pleasure of onlookers.  For money, yes, but […]

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Dancing In Inappropriate Places

Connecting Socially , dance videos , dancing for joy , dancing in the streets , Hip Hop , inspirational dancing , Outdoor Dancing , performance dance

Dancing makes people smile.  My vision statement has to do with a world in which people break into spontaneous dance in unexpected places and occasionally I like to blog about occasions where that happens already. Great examples of inappropriate dance Nothing makes me happier than seeing evidence of people dancing with abandon in “inappropriate” places. […]

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Fusion in Performance Dance

Classical Dance , Dance History , dance videos , fusion , Hip Hop , inspirational dancing , Lindy Hop , performance dance

I’ve written before about partner dancers combining styles, but performance dancers do it too.  Some years ago I spent 8 Julys  in Sweden studying the European partner jazz dance Boogie Woogie   My favorite teacher, Christer Isberg, was the best all around dancer I’d ever seen.  It seemed he could do anything.  His background included classical […]

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