RETRO

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 HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF LI
NE DANCE
× RETRO DANCE - covers a broad range of blues
based styles developed during the 1930s to 1950s.
These dance styles share similar patterns of
movement, composition, and core dance content
but vary with respect to their characterization,
emphasis and structure to provide clearly related
but distinct dance

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NE DANCE
× Retro music was become popular because of the
large dancing movement all around the world. It was
popularized in the late 1960s as an alternative music
styles preferred by the youth. The Funk, hip hop and
soul are the famous types of dance flourished in the
North America. During the mid-1970s to early 1980s,
Retro Pop Dance reached its peak as a form of
entertainment of the youngsters of their various
backgrounds.

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 HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF LI
NE DANCE
× The origin of the Retro Pop Dance can be traced and
identified through the formation of the night clubs –
discotheques where Nazi occupied Paris. The radio
presenters is usually called as disc jockey or
commonly known as DJ wherein they played Jazz
records and the like.

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 HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF LI
NE DANCE
× To name the few musical hits of disco
performers such as Donna Summer,
Boney M, Bee Gees, The Tramps, Chic and
Gloria Gaynor which inspired by the
Hollywood films (Saturday Night and
Thanks God It’s Friday.

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 HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF LI
NE DANCE
× In the Philippine setting, retro pop music or disco
songs are as follows: Bongga Ka ‘Day, Annie
Batungbakal, Manila, Pers Lab, Langit Na Naman,
Dying To Tell You, Bitin Sa Iyo, and Beh, Buti Nga was
popularized by the The Hotdog band. After the
decline of disco music, practitioners used this dance
for the fitness exercises.

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Etiquette in Dance
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Every dance class that a student will
attend have their own rules or
policies to follow. These rules are
ways to make the dance session
more productive and successful.

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Here are some etiquette to follow:
1. Always pay attention to your dance instructor. It is
essential to listen to every detail in order to
familiarize with the lessons easily.
2. Wearing the appropriate dance attire. It should be
observed from time to time in order to avoid
destruction while attending the classes.

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Here are some etiquette to follow:
1. Attending classes on time. It is more on
professionalism aspect that every student
should possess at all times. The students
should be in the class on or before the session
will begin. For this reason, they can have an
ample time to prepare their needs during the
classes.

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Here are some etiquette to follow:
4. Respect one another. It is a common
virtue that students should follow
whenever they are in the class.
5. Always aim for the BEST. Keep on
moving and practicing until you make it
perfect.

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RETRO POP DANCE
The Running Man - MC Hammer, was the proponent of
this famous dance step. It is widely performed in
different videos and in disco houses.
The Thriller - This dance step was popularized by
Michael Jackson during the 80’s. It is considered as
classic dance move because it is still incorporating to
other dance craze up to this generation.

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RETRO POP DANCE
The Sprinkler - This dance step is just like imitating
the garden sprinkler. You just have to assume that you
are watering irrigation or a garden.

The Roger Rabbit - This dance imitates the floppy

movements of the lead cartoon character as seen in
the 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

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HIPHOP
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HIPHOP
– refers to street dance styles primarily
performed to hip-hop music or that have evolved
as part of hip-hop culture. It includes a wide
range of styles primarily breaking which was
created in the 1970s and made popular by dances
crews in the United States.

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HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE
HIP-HOP
Hip-hop, cultural movement that attained
widespread popularity in the 1980s and ’90s; also,
the backing music for rap, the musical style
incorporating rhythmic and/or rhyming speech
that became the movement’s most lasting and
influential art form.

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Origins and The Old School
Although widely considered a synonym for rap music,
the term hip-hop refers to a complex culture
comprising four elements:
1. Deejaying, or turntumbling
2. Rapping also known as “MCing” or “rhyming
3. Graffiti painting, also known as “graf” or “writing

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4. B-boying
which encompasses hip-hop dance, style, and
attitude, along with the sort of virile body language
that philosopher Cornel West described as “postural
semantics.
5. “Knowledge of self/consciousness,” is sometimes
added to the list of hip-hop elements, particularly by
socially conscious hip-hop artists and scholars.)

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New School
In the mid-1980s the next wave of rappers, the new
school, came to prominence
A. Run-D.M.C., a trio of middle-class African Americans
who fused rap with hard rock, defined a new style of
hip dress.

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2. Def Jam featured three important innovators: 
a. LL Cool J, rap’s first romantic superstar;
b. the Beastie Boys, a white trio who broadened rap’s
audience and popularized digital sampling
(composing with music and sounds electronically
extracted from other recordings);  
c. Public Enemy, who invested rap with radical black
political ideology, building on the social
consciousness of Grandmaster Flash and the
Furious Five’s “The Message” (1982).

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In the 21st century the music—born from
the sonic creations of the deejay—saw its
greatest innovations in the work of such
studio wizards as Timbaland, Swizz Beatz,
and the Neptunes. Still, major stars
continued to emerge.

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