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Article: Crash course: hip hop.(TECHNIQUE)
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- Dance Magazine
- Article date:
- October 1, 2007
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Hip hop dance is getting more watered down by the day, according to teacher/choreographer Kennis Marquis, and it makes him mad. "These days, people are mixing hip hop with ballet and jazz," he says. "They're doing this stiff, robotic, drill-team, cheerleading type of thing, and that's not what hip hop is."
So what is it? Ask five different dancers to describe the technique, and you'll get five different answers. One thing everyone seems to agree on, though, is that today's dancers don't know the history of hip hop, and it shows in how they move. While hip hop has yet to be codified and documented as thoroughly as older genres like ...