Tjhesis+Based+Research+Assignment

I went down this path because I being a dancer myself think it’s really cool how dances from all over the U.S vary. The driving question that guided my research is how dances from other states affected dance have as we know it in Philadelphia I had to answer what the dances were I was working with and why I chose them. __**Research **__  A.  "Hip Hop Dance." //Wikipedia//. N.p., n.d. Web. 9 Oct. 2009. . 1. Nineteen U.S. states have designated hip hop as their official state dance) and one of the major centers for modern dance 2. What separates hip-hop dance from other forms of dance is that it is often freestyle or improvisational  3.  Internationally hip hop has had a really big influence on France and South Korea 4.  “To some, hip-hop dance may only be a form of entertainment or a hobby. To others it has become a lifestyle: a way to be active in physical fitness or competitive dance and a way to make a living by dancing professionally.” B.  Harris, Rennie. "Hip Hop Dance History." //www.dancehere.com//. N.p., 7 July 2008. Web. 9 Oct. 2009. . 1. In the 1980’s hip hop went big with the help of television 2. In 1981, the Lincoln Center in New York City hosted a battle between the Rock Steady Crew and b-boys The Dynamic Rockers. This event was covered by the New York Times, The Village Voice, The Daily news, National Geographic and local news stations and helped b-boy gain he world’s attention. 3. And the forerunners of hip-hop dance have often been poorly introduced to the world they have affected. 4. “One of the things I realized is that the very first time in the Middle Passage that slaves were made to dance in shackles to rhythms of tea kettles is the birth of Black contemporary art” __** Thesis **__ My specific stance is that Hip Hop dance is much more than just fun and games or street dancing. It has a much stronger foundation than most consider it. My initial thesis is the genre of Hip Hop is usually characterized as a choreographed form of dance but taking a look at all the dances region to region it becomes clear that though there are different moves and forms of freestyle. __**Findings **__ 1. In 1973 hip hop legend Dj Kool Herc who was Jamaican- American developed break beats as we know them today 2. James Brown helped develop hip hop due to his drummers playing the music he danced to as a form of hip hop 3. Dancers “Rubberband” and “Apache” introduced Uprocking in New York City clubs. 4. Throughout the 1980s, dance groups engaged in a number of famous battles. But in spite of the competitiveness, collaboration also occurred. Hip-hop dancers from the East and the West learned each other’s styles and took them home to teach and expand on them. 5. GhettOriginal continued performing and appeared in, among other shows, the off-Broadway //Jam on The Groove // at New York City’s Minnettea Lane Theater in 1995. And throughout the years, ballet and modern dance companies have featured b-boys in performances Connections to the overall Project My findings fit into the big picture of my project because most of my findings were all about the history of Hip Hop. This research will help me move forward because before I can really go deep into talking and researching about the genre of hip hop I need a foundation and I need to know about the history of my subject. Since my project is on the migration of moves in hip hop i need information about how hip hop moves and even hip hop itself even got over to the U.S since it originated in places like; Turkey, France and a lot in South Korea. __**Process reflection**__ From conducting this research i learned that most of the dances i'm looking up have came back. What I mean by this is that they were all out in the past and now there are just many variations of the same dance moves. I definitely had to figure out and know for sure that this is what I want to do for my project because mytopic is so hard to work on. I need to really work on being able to fish out important details to irrelevant details. My project has so much to it and it's so diverse that it's easy to become sidetracked.I always had the idea that the art of hip hop dance was just one day a bunch of people got together, started dancing and called it hip hop but this particualr form of dance went throguh alot to be knownt the way it is today. My findings fit into the big picture by teaching me the history of my topic. My findings are pretty much the history of hip hop dance itself. This research will help me with the history of hip hop aspect of my whole project.
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