Hip Hop Dancing

Hip Hop is a cultural and artistic movement (even a way of life) which appeared in the United States in the middle of the 1970. Originated from the black ghettos from New-York, it combines feast aspects with revolted ones. Hip Hop dancing is the best known element of this culture.

The four main elements of hip hop culture are the rap and more generally hip hop music dancing graffiti, DJ work, break dance and the other hip hop dances. Sometimes one can add beat box, even street fashion, street language, street entrepreneurialism and street knowledge.

Often assimilated with rap, which is, nevertheless only one of its aspects, the history of hip hop music is often confounded with that of current music.

Rap and Mc hip hop

Beat boxing means a music created using the mouth: voice, throat or even the nose. Invented by Doug E. Fresh, it had great success in the 1989 before its decline, but it knew a revival towards the end of the 1999. One of the most famous beat boxers was without a doubt Rahzel, whose most famous song is "If your mother only knew" in which he combined the voice and the beat, inviting to hip hop dancing.

Like the other elements of hip hop, the beat box knew the success all over the world, from Saian Supa Crew Ezra in France, to Austrians of Bauchklang, the beat box overcame the North American limits.

M Cing Rap is the discontinuous chant of Cyries, often very imaginative, rich in assonances and alliterations. Influenced by the Toasting and by precursors in jazz or rack, it knew success, so that it can often assimilate hip hop music and dancing to rap.

MC is the denomination of the one who entertains parties or shows but also rappers. MC means and slams.

DJs

DJs work means mixing and modifying disks. For this, the DJ uses different techniques like Scratch, pass-pass, or cutting. More DJs are now stars like DJ Craze, who win specific hip hop dancing and music championships.

Beat making is usually performed on the computer, aided by devices or specialized programs. Firstly, a beat includes especially three sections, the bass line (which is the form of the bass from the instrument point of view), the melody (which is the main line, which will attract attention), and the drum line (percussion sounds, for example).

More beat makers use samples, which exist previously (jazz, funk and soul were the most largely explored) and mix them to create a melody, but sometimes it is possible to compose it on the basis of electronic instruments.

Hip hop music is based on two aspects, production (also called beat making) and the rap chant (also called emceeing). The beat making can often be confounded with DJ work for the simple reason that both belong to background or beat music used by the MC for rapper.

Hip hop dancing appeared in the same time with break dance and it is more popular in the United State under the name of B boy-ing, a style of dancing characterized by its acrobatic aspect and its ground figures. The dancers are equally called breakers or b-boys or b-girls, for example Rock steady hew.

Hip hop dancing integrated another dancing style, street dance, like Locking and Popping, two dance styles having its origins in the west side of the USA.

New styles appeared, like House dance, new style, Krump, C-walk.

Graffiti

Hip hop graffiti is a general phenomenon in a city landscape. It can often distinguish it according to the tag, the stylized signature, which also is a part of hip hop culture. In their time, in Europe, mode 2 and Bando were famous. In New York the first stars are Lee, Lady Link and Jean-Michel Basquiat who, apart from hip-hop movement is a famous graffiti artist.

Contemporary hip hop

A hip hop singer, appreciated by young people is EMINEM, the author of the famous hit "Sing for the moment". When he steps on the stage, the public starts to dance with them, full of happiness and excitement.

Hip hop dancing is a way of escaping the boredom and exhaustion of every day routine. When both artists and audience are dancing hip hop they seem to leave all their problems for behind them and never worry. They seem to be as free as a bird in the sky; they feel the taste of infinite freedom and of power.

Moreover, hip hop dancing provides good health: exercise end peace of soul and mind. Hip hop dancers usually gather together in order to make music, to study dance movements, to create something new and entertaining and to enjoy themselves too.

Not every body can be a good hip hop dancer. In order to dance hip hop very well, you must be born for this, you must feel the rhythm which sometimes can be associated with magic African rituals.