Unit 2. Basic Steps

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• 7Movements of Dance
• Proper Body Alignment
• Positions of the feet/arms
• General Dance Terminology

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• Plié- to bend
• Relevé-to rise
• Étendre-to stretch
• Glisser-to glide
• Élancer-to dart
• Tourner-to turn
• Sauter-to jump

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• Your head must be in line with your neck and
  spine
  
• Shoulders and hips square
• Keep your rib cage and your abdominals
  contracted
  
• Turn your legs out from your hips
• Keep your knees over your toes
• Keep your knees straight but not locked
• Your weight should always be on the balls of your
  feet and centered on your first and second toe
  
• Keep all of our five toes on the floor
• Must have energy pouring out of all pars of your
  body in every direction.

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• Contraction
• -a shortening or tensing of a muscle
• -When you contract your muscles, you are causing
  them to flex and tighten.
  
• -This is usually done in the stomach area

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• Isolation
• A separation of one part of the body from the
  rest. This may be done with any part of the body.
  The rest of the body remains unchanged while you
  isolate one part to accent that movements

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• Tempo
• -Speed
• -The speed at which the music is played or your
  are dancing
  
• Rhythm
• -The patterned, recurring alternations of
  contrasting elements of sound.
  

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• Counts
• The way to measure beats in music.
• Follows the time signature.
• Usually dancers count up to 8 and start over

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• Pivot Turns
• -to pivot on one foot
• -It takes 2 pivot turns to complete a full 360

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• Hip Hop is a cultural development which developed
  in NY City in the 1970s primarily among African
  Americans and Latinos
  
• 4 Elements of Hip Hop
• -Djing(Disc Jockeying)
• -Graffiti Art
• -Break Dancing
• -MC(Emceeing)

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• Body Rolls
• Rhythm Walks
• Pivot Turns
• Choppy Turns
• Grapevine Clap
• 3step turn Clap
• Skittles
• Kick Slide
• Freestyle Circle

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• The first Hip Hop DJ Kool DJ Herc
• created hip hop through the isolation of
  Breaks (The part of albums that focused solely
  on the beat)
  
• Using two turntables simultaneously

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• The rhythmic deliver of rhymes
• Rapping can be delivered over a beat or without
  accompaniment.

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• The relationship between graffiti and hip hop
  culture arises both from early graffiti artists
  practicing other aspects of hip hop, and its
  being practiced in areas where other elements of
  hip hop were evolving as art forms.
• Graffiti is recognized as a visual expression of
  rap music

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• B-boy, B-gril
• Getting in front of the audience to dance in a
  distinctive, frenetic style
  
• Popping/Locking/Hitting/Ticking/Boogaloo/ the
  other funk styles(1960s in CA)