Hip-Hop Dance

Hip-Hop Dance book cover — HIP-HOP INSIDER HIP-HOP DANCE By Audrey DeAngelis and Gina DeAngelis CONTENT CONSULTANT RACHEL RAIMIST PHD ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR DEPARTMENT OF JOURNALISM CREATIVE MEDIA UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA Essential Library An Imprint of Abdo Publishing abdopublishing com

Hip-Hop Dance — page 1 — 1 HIP-HOP MAKES HISTORY Twelve figures in clothing reminiscent of the 1700s whirl across a stage surrounded by brick and beams that suggest the rough-and-tumble long-ago port of New York City For more than an hour these dancers have controlled time racing through decades of history and slowing bullets to a snail’s pace And they won’t stop for nearly two more hours They are passengers in New York Harbor soldiers in a ragtag army They cheer the main character as he disses his enemies and minutes later laugh at his failures Their constant motion crosses boundaries At various moments they break krump pop waltz and do a thousand other things all in the service of telling a story through movement 4

Hip-Hop Dance — page 2 — Lin-Manuel Miranda center was the first actor to play the role of Alexander Hamilton in the musical Hamilton 5

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