🔹 1. Breaking (B-boying/B-girling)

Task: Research the origins of Breaking and describe its four foundational elements: toprock, footwork, power moves, and freezes.- Provide examples and videos

Focus: Where and why did Breaking begin? What social or cultural needs did it respond to? How has this Progressed?

🔹 2. Locking & Popping

Task: Compare and contrast the techniques of Locking and Popping.

Focus: What are the key movement features of each? Who were the pioneers, and what music supported these styles?

🔹 3. House Dance

Task: Explain the origins and evolution of House Dance.

Focus: What makes House movement distinctive? Explore footwork, fluidity, and musical connection. How does it relate to club culture?

🔹 4. Waacking & Voguing

Task: Explore the cultural and social roots of Waacking and Voguing.

Focus: How did these styles emerge from LGBTQ+ and POC communities? What is the relationship between identity, fashion, and movement in these forms?

🔹 5. Commercial Dance

Task: Define Commercial Dance and discuss where it's commonly seen (e.g. music videos, tours, TikTok, TV).

Focus: How does Commercial Dance differ from traditional Hip-Hop forms in style, intention, and setting?

🔹 6. Style Comparison Task

Task: Choose two styles from the above list and compare them.

Focus: How do they differ in technique, musicality, and cultural origin? How are they similar or connected?

🔹 7. Movement & Identity

Task: Reflect on how any one style expresses identity (e.g. gender, race, sexuality, class, community).

Focus: Use one choreographer or performer as a case study.

🔹 8. Modern Fusion & Evolution

Task: Identify a recent artist or choreographer who blends multiple Hip-Hop/Commercial styles.

Focus: How are traditional foundations preserved or changed in modern fusion?

[BONNIE, spoken & (COMPANY, sung)]
...Bonnie Harris. On a normal day, we get a half dozen flights
Now we already got three times that many landing
In two hours
It's a lot of noise
You can smell the fuel, you can smell the exhaust
(And then another
And then twenty-six planes then another
And then another
And then another
And then twenty-nine, twenty-nine planes)

[OZ, spoken & (COMPANY, sung)]
Jaysus, that's a jumbo
There's gotta be two-fifty or three-hundred on her
That's a fairly large one
There's gotta be two-hundred on her
And now I'm adding this up
We got thirty-eight planes
We've got two, three-hundred people on the average...
...holy shit!
(And then another
And then another
And then thirty-two, thirty-two planes
And then another
And then another
And then thirty-eight, thirty-eight
Thirty-eight, thirty-eight, thirty-eight, thirty-eight planes)

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