What is Hip-hop dance?

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Sushil Waghmare

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In dance, the word hip-hop means hip means knowledge, and hop means movements.
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Hip hop is not a dance. It's a culture combining various attributes, mainly breaking, graffiti, knowledge, and DJ. It consists of many dance styles on numerous types of music.
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HIP HOP is a huge culture under which there are vast number for styles. i was basically originated from Africa. Hiphop comes under the western styles
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Hip hop combines various styles, jazz, ballet, tap dance, and dancing to pop music. Hip hop is from the US, and street dances of different types are also called hip-hop.
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When we dance, the body and feet move in a way that follows a rhythm in music.
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7+ years experience in Hip Hop Dance and 4+ teaching experience, taught over 50+ students

Hip Hop is basically a culture or art that was started by the African-Americans back in the 1960s to 70s in Bronx, New York. For knowing hip hop, one should know the key elements of it.... Basically there are 5 - Deejaying, MCing, Beatboxing, Breaking and Graffiti. Talking about hip hop dance, Breaking...
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Hip Hop is basically a culture or art that was started by the African-Americans back in the 1960s to 70s in Bronx, New York. For knowing hip hop, one should know the key elements of it.... Basically there are 5 - Deejaying, MCing, Beatboxing, Breaking and Graffiti. Talking about hip hop dance, Breaking is the 1st form of it which was observed by DJ Kool Herc in a club. Due to certain reasons like slowing down the tempo of then 'breakbeats', the bounce came into play which happened in mid 1970s. So that's hip hop dance read less
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Hip Hop is a vibrant form of dance that combines various freestyle movements to create a cultural form of dance.
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