Who is a Hip-Hop Dancer?...

Yeah. I wouldn't exactly call her a hip-hop dancer, either, although lots of entertainers, including Britney, are incorporating some hip-hop moves into their routines. Not quite sure what her style should be called ... :?
 
entertainment124 said:
Britney Spears!!!!
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Disagree. She's learned some choreography for her tours and videos but if you had her try to free style it? I don't think so.
 
I think her dancing is more like the slutty kind of stuff that cheerleaders do when they're not tumbling. There are FEW Hip Hop moves in her dances (like isolation moves, mostly).
 
then why did she say she danced hip-hop in the making the video me against the music?? Also why in the video was one of the rooms called the hip-hop danicng room??? and my dance teacher who's been dancing hip-hop for 15 years said also britney spears dances hip-hop????

Please Answer???????
 
entertainment124 said:
then why did she say she danced hip-hop in the making the video me against the music?? Also why in the video was one of the rooms called the hip-hop danicng room??? and my dance teacher who's been dancing hip-hop for 15 years said also britney spears dances hip-hop????
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Well, I've been dancing Hip Hop for 8 years and I've also seen Britney's dancing. I did not say that she doesn't incorporate ANY hip hop in her dancing, I just said most of it looks like the moves that cheerleaders do to remix hip hop music and whatnot. Britney just gets onstage/in front of a camera, does a little hip hop and gyrates the rest of the time. To me, that's not dancing. But hey, to each his/her own.
I also saw the 'Me against the music' video. From what I remember, she did a few tricks with her cane, jumped around a bit, and did a couple hip hop moves. I don't know what the 'hip-hop dancing room' is though.
 
So britney spears only real dancing is hip-hop.
So what is Jazz because alot of people take jazz because they think that's what everyone's doing!
 
entertainment124 said:
So britney spears only real dancing is hip-hop.
So what is Jazz because alot of people take jazz because they think that's what everyone's doing!
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I explained it here :arrow: http://www.dance-forums.com/viewtopic.php?p=124981#124981

It's not exactly "the thing that everyone's doing". It 's definitely not a type of dance you see in clubs :!: You just go to a dance studio and take it. That's all. It's just a beautiful dance done with out a partner. You can't really do anything with it, unless you're in a recital at a solo/group competition.
 
entertainment124 said:
then why did she say she danced hip-hop in the making the video me against the music?? Also why in the video was one of the rooms called the hip-hop danicng room??? and my dance teacher who's been dancing hip-hop for 15 years said also britney spears dances hip-hop????

Please Answer???????
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Maybe she didn't know what to call it, either?

And I agree that Britney does a little hip hop mixed in, but mostly choreographed something else (don't know what) that fts whatever image she's trying to portray in the video. *shrug*
 
labelledanseuse said:
I think her dancing is more like the slutty kind of stuff that cheerleaders do when they're not tumbling. There are FEW Hip Hop moves in her dances (like isolation moves, mostly).
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lol :lol: :lol: :lol: ,now thats telling like it is,slutty kind of dancing cheerleaders do.i agree
 
Some cheerleaders are VERY straight-laced. Not all do slutty dances, although some do, IMO.

I guess what this thread has me thinking is more along the lines of, "What is a hip hop dancer," rather than, "who is a hip hop dancer?"

What makes a dance or dancer hip hop, in your view?

If you google hip hop dance, you can find some hardcore hip hop sites out there -- it's a culture, as well as a dance. And good old Britney would get TOASTED by the dancing some of these folks can do.

Just curious as to what others think.

IMO, pop culture has done pretty much what it always does, when it comes to hip hop -- embrace a chunk of it, then homogenize the heck out of it, to make it attractive to the mainstream. Meanwhile, losing a lot of the original flavor. Just my two cents, but then, I don't know much about hip hop.

Anybody care to comment?
 
pygmalion said:
If you google hip hop dance, you can find some hardcore hip hop sites out there -- it's a culture, as well as a dance. And good old Britney would get TOASTED by the dancing some of these folks can do.

IMO, pop culture has done pretty much what it always does, when it comes to hip hop -- embrace a chunk of it, then homogenize the heck out of it, to make it attractive to the mainstream. Meanwhile, losing a lot of the original flavor. Just my two cents, but then, I don't know much about hip hop.
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I agree. Pop singers such as Britney have stylized Hip Hop and turned it into something almost totally different than what it started out as.

And if anyone here has seen the movie "You Got Served," I'm sure you'd agree that Britney's dancing couldn't even compare to the stuff the people in that movie could do.
 
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