Another “7 Days a Week” Week [LMAO]

At last, we got out of the SD part of the concert. Actually, for the past rehearsals, it’s only the SD we’d been practicing. With what I’ve been seeing in the rehearsals, I really think that our concert would be the greatest event in our school. I’m really excited with the alumni’s performances. I’d like to see them teaching us and of course, dancing to the different kinds of dance they are good. As far as I know, Kuya Ching’s forte is jazz and as what we know, Ate Dei’s forte is hip-hop. I wanna see them :]]

JAZZ

is a classification shared by a broad range of dance styles. Prior to the 1950s, jazz dance referred to dance styles that originated from African American vernacular dance. In the 1950s, a new genre of jazz dance—modern jazz dance—emerged, with roots in Caribbean traditional dance. Every individual style of jazz dance has roots traceable to one of these two distinct origins. Some techniques in jazz are center control, spotting, toe rise, and straddle split leap.

HIP-HOP

refers to social or choreographed dance styles primarily danced to hip-hop music or that have evolved as part of hip-hop culture. This includes a wide range of styles notably breaking, locking, and popping which were developed in the 1970s by Black Americans. What separates hip-hop dance from other forms of dance is that it is often freestyle (improvizational) in nature and hip-hop dancers frequently engage in battles—formal or informal freestyle dance competitions. Informal freestyle sessions and battles are usually performed in a cipher, a circular dance space that forms naturally once the dancing begins. These three elements—freestyling, battles, and ciphers—are key components of hip-hop dance. The main styles in hip-hop are breaking/B-boying, locking, and popping.