Hip Hop Dance
Hip hop dance involves many skills brought together into one arena for its skilled practitioners. The very best can do this effortlessly and bring the moves together in complex ways.
Hip hop dance can borrow techniques from other dance styles also and there can even be fusion styles but much of the vocabulary remains the same as well as standard techniques such as knowing how to bounce and how to groove with the beats.
If you imagine back in the day when hip hop first emerged, it was a beat heavy sound. And when people heard it, it made them want to kind of bounce along with the beats.
This bounce can be found in many areas of hip hop dance also. It helps the dancers stick to the beat and is one of the techniques that all hip hop dancers should know.
It can be argued that a hip hop routine with no bounce, or without moves incorporating a bounce throughout the whole routine is not really a hip hop routine.
There are new interpretations of hip hop all the time, and people are pushing the boat and doing hip hop dance to non hip-hop songs also these days.
Hip hop today can include moves from different styles that individual dancers and choreographers may choose to bring into it. It can draw from the orginal hip hop dance styles of locking, popping and breaking and bring elements of these arts into the mix as well.
People can also create their own moves and ways of doing moves, which means that the opportunity for expression is large as long as dancers have enough knowledge of what hip hop dance is.
Different hip hop dance choreographies can look nothing like one another or even have any of the same moves. The same can also be said on a smaller scale in that individual dancers can look completely different from one another.
The time when they will tend to look similar to one another is when they are brought together doing the same routine as is the case with hip hop dance crews or performances meant to be done in unison, for example on stage.