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Dance party in the 1980s

Dance party in the 1980s
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  • Dance party in the 1980s
  • Duration: 02:40
  • Break-dancing evolved on the streets of America in the 1970s, and became a worldwide craze in the early 1980s. We watch a street-based break-dancing face-off. Break-dancing involves the dance elements of toprock, downrock, freezes and power moves. Friendly rivals, boys and girls, take turns to show off their moves on the vinyl mat in an impressive athletic mix of dance and gymnastics.
  • Subject:

    History

       Topic:

    Social History and Change

  • Keywords: dance, move, rhythm, music, social, entertainment, style, fashion, street, hip hop, break dance, energy, mix, athletic, graffiti
Ideas for use in class
  • Could be used for cross curriculum work along side Clips 09607, 09608, 09609 and 09610. PE - link with gymnastics - rolling, balancing, weight-bearing etc. Art - using the images behind the dancers as inspiration and focusing on graffiti art and famous graffiti artists. Music - focus on rhythm and rap music. Literacy - writing phrases which we can put to our rhythms to create our own rap. Geography - looking at all the dances and plotting where they originated and how they came about - why is the break dance done outside in the street? Dance - focused on individual moves - mainly floor work using the whole body. The use of an old tune in a new genre is a powerful skill to teach children in their music, they should be able to take old tunes and set them in a new genre. While the dance moves contain an element of skill more so than other time periods, they will more readily inspire children to achieve and in that sense can raise the bar for children's dance work. The dance is set in a street environment and shows clearly that sometimes dance and other art forms are enhanced and inspired by the environment in which they are set. Children could use a variety of environments to inspire a range of dances.
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  • Clip language : English
  • Aspect ratio : 16x9
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