About Hip Hop
Class Description:
This began forming as a culture and art movement in the Bronx of New York City in 1970. Hip hop dance is a range of street dance styles primarily performed to hip hop music or sub-generes of hip-hop music that has evolved as part of the hip hop culture with various elements of dance styles. In this class, you will dive more in-depth into fundamentals and improving you movement quality, followed by a longer choreographed combo centered around musicality and movement quality.
Suggested Footwear:
Sneakers
Suggested Experience Needed:
2 or more years of experience recommended or 6-8 weeks of Int. Hip-Hop. Dancers should have a healthy understanding of basic Hip-Hop terminology, and understand musicality
Related Classes:
Jazz Funk, Pop Jam, Reggaeton, K-Pop, Bollywood Funk, Waacking, House Fundamentals
Prerequisite:
6-8 weeks of Int. Hip-Hop. Dancers should have a healthy understanding of basic Hip-Hop terminology, and understand musicality.
Meet Risa
Instagram: @sonrisa_ddd
Risa (she/her) is a Tokyo native dancer and represented by Rae Dance Agency. She has started dancing Hip Hop, Lock, Street Jazz since she was 16. Once she started her dancer journey, she has performed in multiple events and started making choreography for her school performances / her hip hop team in Japan as well as New York. While she was in New York, she also trained Heels from Army of Sass but also joined a bachata team led by Daniel y Desirée who is the world's most famous Bachata dance couple. The dream job she recently did was making a musical promotion PV for Dokkyo university in Japan as a director/choreographer. Her dance style and choreography focuses on musicality piece so that all of dancers are able to enjoy dancing through the music as well as express/discover themselves. She is currently teaching Hip Hop at Rae studio as well as UN Plaza.