Reflection Paragraph on Sources

On this post I am explaining how successful was I in finding good resources for my topic. I did find good resources for my topic very good resources that really helped mr with my topic and help me understand my project way more better. The site that was most useful was wikipedia. Wikipedia was useful to me by all the information that really helped me understand and learn more about my topic. The more trustworthy sites were http://www.theboombox.com. This site really was trustworthy because it helped me with getting me a chart for my blog that I could count on and think that it was true. The ones that displayed obvious bias was i don't think any of my sites did this.

Work Cited

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/hip_2.html

http://www.centralhome.com/hip-hop-dance-history.htm

http://ezinearticles.com/?hip-hop-dancing&id=407540

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://blog.danceruniverse.com/images

http://rap.about.com/od/breakdancing101/p/Breakdancing.htm

Reflection Paragraph on Process

For this post I am talking about my process through my blog, which was about Hip Hop Dancing. First, I want to start with that doing this process it was a very easy process and i also learned a lot by researching and checking out things that had a lot to do with my topic. The reason why I said it was easy because since I already knew a lot about Hip Hop Dancing, little bit of the history of Hip Hop, and since it plays a very big part in my life I decided to pick it as my topic for my blog. It was easy not difficult. Well at least it was to me.

What i enjoyed most about doing this blog and my topic was that I learned A LOT of things about Hip Hop Dancing. Like I thought I already knew everything about my topic but wen I started to do my research on Hip Hop Dancing, I learned more and more each day I researched and read it. There is a dislike that I really didn't like when I did this project....... the fact that I had to find like quotes on my topic. It was hard because usually all the site for my topic was either blocked or really didn't talk about it but the good out way the bad. Everything came out good.

If I had to do this project again I would definitely do it on........ girls that have depression over like the way they look and they way they think because I have that problem were I feel like I am not as pretty, fit, and in good condition like most girls in high school and middle school feel. I would love to something like this again. It was really, really, really fun.

By: Allison Pertell

Reflection Paragraph on Findings

History of Hip Hop Dancing

If you don’t know anything else, you probably already know that hip hop has the beat that makes you want to get up and dance. But what do you really know about hip hop dance?

Did you know that this energetic dancing evolved with hip hop music and street jazz? It’s true. Today, hip hop has taken its place alongside ballet, tap, jazz and ballroom dancing; to name a few.

The first mention of hip hop dance dates back to the 70’s when some new moves were introduced to the dance world to accompany the funky sounds of hip hop music that was also being discovered. Most popular among African Americans and Latin Americans at first, there are many races who now lay claim to defining this diverse dance phenomenon.

Across the United States from the ‘Boogie Down’ Bronx, New York to the ‘Beat Street’ corners of Compton, California, young people everywhere took to this new style of dancing that included such feats as breaking, popping, locking, gliding, ticking, vibrating and krumping. In the earlier days, some hip hop dance moves such as the Humpty Dance were made popular by hip hop artists who had created the songs from which these dances were derived.

Early on, dance competitions on sidewalks included beat boxing, a form of music-making that included raps and special sound effects made with the hands and mouth. Artists like The Fat Boys rose to fame and fortune with Buffy’s beat boxing talents.

After the outbreak of interest in hip hop dance, there were even several movies highlighting this new form of dancing that combined beats, sounds, and gravity-defying moves. Crush Groove and other movies saw their day in the spotlight as hip hop dance continued to expand to different cultures and races and locations around the globe.

From freestyle forms that were often the spotlight of informal battles both indoors and outdoors to formally trained dancers who began to incorporate hip hop dance as a means of dance and physical exercise, hip hop dance has continued to evolve. Today, hip hop dance has earned a recognized place in dance studios and is practiced as regularly as other styles.

Whether hip hop dance was the brain child of some who were simply looking for another form of expression or the intentional genius of creative souls who were looking to put another dance expression into the mix of music is not clear. What is clear is that hip hop music has survived challenge and change and fought its way into the dance scene around the world.

In 2005, the popular television show “So You Think You Can Dance” presented yet another platform for hip hop dance artists to display their talents while competing for fame and fortune against other recognized dance forms such as ballet, tap, jazz and ballroom.

http://www.centralhome.com/hip-hop-dance-history.htm

My reflection paragraph on findings is on this paragraph because it really explains what the history of hip hop dancing and hip hop is about and the meaning of it all. And it is saying some of the dance television shows and stuff like that.

Finding Paragraph #3

Who actually thought of hip hop dancing?,What is the purpose for hip hop dancing?

In the mid 20's

Earl Tucker ("Snake Hips") was a performer at the Cotton Club during the days of Duke Ellington. His style of dance is defintly related that of waving that you see young Hip Hop dancers still doing today. and he also had similar floats and back slides that he used in his act as well.

IN JAMAICA THE 1940'S THOMAS WONG BETTER KNOWN AS "TOM THE GREAT" SEBASTIAN

BEGAN USING A BOOMING SOUND SYSTEM AND AMERICAN RECORDS TO STEEL CROWDS FROM LOCAL BANDS.

THIS IS A SECTION OF A PARAGRAPH TAKEN FROM: "The evolution of rap music in the United States by Henry A. Rhodes", WITH REFERENCES TO: Steven Haver in his book, "Hip Hop; the Illustrated History of Break Dancing, Rap Music and Graffiti,"

In 1959 Parks Commissioner Robert Moses began building an expressway through the heart of the Bronx. As a result, the middle class Italian, German, Irish, and Jewish neighborhoods disappeared overnight. In addition, businesses and factories relocated and left this borough. These exiting middle classes and businesses were replaced by poor black and Hispanic families. Accompanying these poor people were crime, drug addiction, and unemployment.

http://www.hiphopcity.com/history/evolutionofrap.htm

http://www.mrwiggles.biz/hip_hop_timeline.htm

These paragraph are talking about who or what created or thought of hip hop dancing and what is the purpose for hip hop dancing. It also tells what countries and who started doing hip hop dancing.

Finding Paragraph #2

What is Hip-Hop Dancing?

Hip hop dancing is an urban ethnic dance form that has gained popularity in recent days. It is more common than the break dance of modern days. Hip hop dancing marked its beginning as part of the hip hop culture in the early 1900's, when the youth in and around Bronx, New York started dancing on the streets.

Hip hop dancing is an ideal way to express one's creativeness. It features self impressions and the dances come from the soul. The dancing represents body movements that go with the beat and rhythm of hip hop music. There is breaking, popping, locking, and free styling in hip hop dances. The jumps, breakages, and rotations in the movements are combined in such a way that the dance style becomes an informal and explosive one.

http://ezinearticles.com/?Hip-Hop-Dancing&id=407540

This Paragraph is telling the definition of Hip-Hop Dancing and what it is and really is about. And it is telling what kind of music it can also go with. Of course hip hop, reggae, R'n'B and much more.

Finding Paragraph #1

More than 30 years old, hip-hop dance became widely known after the first professional breaking, locking, and popping crews formed in the 1970s. The most influential groups are the The Lockers, the Rock Steady Crew, and the Electric Boogaloos who are responsible for the spread of locking, breaking, and popping respectively. Parallel with the evolution of hip-hop music, hip-hop dancing evolved from breaking and the funk styles into different forms: moves such as the "running man" and the "cabbage patch" hit the mainstream and became fad dances. The dance industry in particular responded with studio/commercial hip-hop, sometimes called new style or L.A. style, and jazz funk. These styles were developed by technically trained dancers who wanted to create choreography for hip-hop music from the hip-hop dances they saw being performed on the street. Because of this development, hip-hop dance is now practiced at both studios and outside spaces.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip-hop_dance

This paragraph is talking and explaining "How Hip-Hop Dancing was created?". It also says when it actually started and what basically it is. It is mostly breakdancing.

Quote #4 (My Data Base Quote)

Feel the beat of the streets

With moves borrowed from gymnastics and martial arts, breakdancing builds some serious muscle.

Born in the streets of the South Bronx in the 1970s, breaking combines fast, nimble steps and acrobatic floorwork, pitting dancers against one another in a battle of style and skills.

Different dancers emphasize different moves - and different muscles, says Toronto b-boy Jerome Villa, also known as FreshFX. He competed last weekend at Break the Cycle 6, the Canadian b-boy championship held at York University.

Those who favour power moves - gymnastics-inspired spins and stunts - develop strong arms and shoulders, he says, while those who hone their footwork strengthen quads and calves. Freezes, techniques that halt the body mid-motion, call on the core for stability.

Regardless of style, breakers must have the stamina to perform, Villa says. In a typical one-on-one tournament, dancers face off in about a dozen 15- to 20-second bursts - what amounts to interval training on the dance floor.

"One set is enough to break a sweat."

Many breakers use dance as their only workout, he notes, but strength and core training can help master certain moves. The frog stand is a building block to several freezes.

I picked this as my data base quote because it is telling and talking about how beakdancing was started. It was basically started and done in the streets. People go out to the d
streets and would battle or just go do it because they wanted to or just to practice. A lot of people are actually starting to like the fact of doing breakdancing.

Paola, Loriggio. "Feel the beat of the streets." Toronto Star (Canada) n.d.: Newspaper Source. EBSCO. Web. 29 Apr. 2010.

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http://www.theboombox.com/?sem=1&ncid=AOLMUS00170000000041&s_kwcid=TC|10778|hip%20hop%20music%20charts||S|b|5696918329

This chart is showing some stuff about Hip-Hop and other music.
As you can see at the bottom of this chart Hip-Hop is MAJOR in this music chart.

Quote#3

What Is Breakdance: Breakdance or breaking is a street-based dance that incorporates intricate body movements, coordination, style, and aesthetics. The people who perform this style of dance are known as b-boys or b-girls.

http://rap.about.com/od/breakdancing101/p/Breakdancing.htm

I pick this because it is talking about what exactly breakdancing is. This is a very big part of Hip-Hop dancing basically it is what make Hip-Hop. Doing this type of dance it is really hard to do you really got to practice over and over if you have just learned and started it. It is done by many people!

Quote#2

Dancehall is just like hip-hop in that it doesn't always talk about bling; it talks about conscious issues.
Sean Paul

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/hip-hop.html

I picked this quote because Dancehall is another type dance and music that is just Hip-Hop music and dance. The only thing about Dancehall is the type of dance that goes with it. Dancehall moves are like more urban and mixed with a little hip-hop moves but it is basically more rolling, smoothing, and ticking your body. In many ways they are exactly the same.

Quote#1

The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.
President Barack Obama
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/hip-hop_2.html

This quote was said by our President Barack Obama. He felt that Hip-Hop today is going and doing good. He also says that it amazes him how people can communicate in Hip-Hop. I pick this quote because the quote came from our President and it amazes me that our president said that hip-hop is amazing.

Wordle #2

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://blog.danceruniverse.com/images
For the first time in ABDC history, an all-girl crew took home the championship. The name of this crew is "We Are Heroes". They were the very first all girl crew to win the title of ABDC in season 4! So many all girl crews look up to them cuz they won the title! We Are Heroes are a very big crew right now!They now Americas Best Dance Crew!

http://www.motionpictureart.com/store/files/images/PostersLarge/StepUp2TheStreetsMoviePosterDutch.jpg
This is a picture of the movie Step Up 2 at the streets. I pick this picture to put on my blog because this movie is about how much people love to dance and shows how they take a bunch of different types of dances and put them in Hip-Hop dancing! Oh and it is also a GREAT movie!

My Photo

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This picture is showing some of the types of moves they do when people break dance! It might look easy to you because it is a picture but really..... it's really hard for some people and for lots of people ti is really hard.

wordle #1 Based On One Useful Site

Preliminary Links and Descriptions

1) http://www.uic.edu/orgs/kbc/hiphop/break.htm

This site was giving information about breakdancing and what people do and how they
breakdance. It also tells how and when breakdancing was created and where it was done and started at.

2)http://www.colum.edu/CBMR/Resources/Definitions_of_Styles_and_Genres/Hip_hop_and_Rap.php

This site is talking bout how the history is a very important to many people who are interested in hip-hop and it's cultural. This also talks about what hip-hop is basicly about and the defintion of the style.

3)http://www.nllc.org/summit2005/chavis.htm

This site is also talking about how a man named Dr. Benjamin Chavis also hepled a organization that is was brought up by Russell Simmons. the organization is called Hip-Hop Summit Action Network (HSAN), this organization was about empower the Hip-Hop community to utilize their commanding cultural influence for freedom, justice and equality, he needed someone with a strong mind and commitment to youth, national civil rights experience, political skills, vast spiritual knowledge and an adept human touch to head up the organization.

4)http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/patc/breakdancing/

This site has information about more breakdancing and was happened to it and lots more information like in Oct. 14, 2002 -- To most American radio listeners, even to casual fans of hip hop, breakdancing was a fad whose moment passed before the end of the '80s, tossed into the decade's time capsule along with acid wash and decent John Hughes movies. And in some sense, they're right. Breakdancing burst onto the national scene in the early 1980s, fueled by a media obsession with hip hop, enjoyed a love affair with the spotlight that lasted a few years, and then fell out of the glare just as quickly as it had located it.

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What I Want To Know About My Topic

Some of the things and questions that I wanna ask and find out are; How was Hip-Hop Dancing created?, Who or what created this type of dance?, What is Hip-Hop Dancing?, Who actually thought of this type of dance?,What is the purpose for this dance?,Why do people want to do this type of dance?, and Why do they find it interesting to do?

What I Already Know About My Topic

I already know a lot of things about Hip-Hop Dancing because I studied and do a little of Hip-Hop dancing. I think I like Hip-Hop Dancing because of the history it has behind it. I know that it refers to social or choreographed dance styles. The basic moves of Hip-Hop Dancing is Breaking, locking, and popping. Hip-Hop is something that is also called a sport and it helps with you staying in good physical condition. It has influenced a lot of people in life to be apart or do Hip-Hop Dancing.

The Story Behind My Topic Choice

The reason why I decided to do my research on hip-hop dancing to be my topic because it's a big thing in my life. I really started hip-hop dance when I was around 10 years old. not a lot of years of dancing. Hip-Hop dancing has been around for 30 years it was developed in the 1970's. It is a strong influence in France and South Korea. To some, Hip-Hop dance maybe a form of entertainment or a hobby. To others and me, it has become a lifestyle; away to be active in physical fitness or competitive dance and a way to make a living by dancing professionally.