This performance explores the Hip Hop dance and music movement including beat boxing, breaking, locking, floor work and top rock.
As you watch, stay focused on your purpose for viewing. Find out what the different elements of Hip Hop are and what influenced its development.
Before you get started, think of what you already know about the Hip Hop movement. Keep this in mind as you watch the performance.
As you watch, keep a list of the different terms that the performers use to describe their dances and movements.
After each part of the performance, sum up what you have learned.
Full Circle Productions: Hip Hop To Da Head (Lecture/Demonstration)
Meet Kwikstep, Rokafella, Spex, Baba, and the rest of the crew as they break, lock, pop, and up-rock until you stand up and cheer! The members of Full Circle Productions present a behind-the-scenes look at the culture and aesthetics of Hip Hop, the elements and dance styles, and the high-energy performance characteristic of this positive and vivacious expression of urban culture. (Recorded in April 2006 at C. D. Hylton High School in Woodbridge, VA.)
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These video clips showcase several different aspects of Hip Hop culture including beat boxing, breakdancing, locking and top rock as performed by Full Circle Soul.
Instructional Strategies
Producer
Kenny Neal
Published
September 9, 2019
Hip Hop embraces these artistic elements, most definitely. But it also has blended and transcended them to become a means for seeing, celebrating, experiencing, understanding, confronting, and commenting on life and the world. Hip Hop, in other words, is a way of living—a culture.
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