Introduction to Hip Hop Dance Practice

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Four hours activity and one hour lecture per week Introduction to Hip Hop dance practices, history, and culture. Activities will focus on embodied knowledge of hip hop dance and culture from its emergence in the 1970s in New York City and its development by primarily Black and Latinx diasporic practitioners, with contributions and influences from Asian and Native American cultures/communities. Students will embody and examine the development of Hip Hop dance practices at parties, battles, clubs, and ballrooms. Also examines the dissemination, technology, commoditization, and globalization of the form and the aspects of race, gender, sexuality, and power that factor into the growth and proliferation of Hip Hop dance. Effective fall 2022, changed from PADA 256. Repeat 2 times up to 6 units