Dance research Silver Arts Award Unit 1 Arts

Dance research Silver Arts Award, Unit 1 Arts Practise

Why? • The styles of dancing I have chosen to learn are Waacking and House Dance • The reason I chose these styles because I have watched and tried these styles before and they are the ones I find the most enjoyable

Waacking Housing Video links

Back Waacking Waaking is a dance form that emerged from Los Angeles around the disco era and is presently going through a resurgence in night clubs in America and Europe by collectives such as the Imperial House of Waacking (IHOW) and the “Waacktitioners”. Waack dancing is recognisable by its femininity, flailing arms and vogues (pausing while dancing to pose), using the arms to hit every beat in the music to extenuate musicality. It was Soul Train in the 1970 s that brought waacking to the publics attention when dancers like Tyrone Proctor would swing their arms wildly in time with the music. He later on formed the group The Outrageous Waack Dancers with another pioneer of the style Jody Watley.

Back House Dance House dance is a social dance primarily danced to house music that has roots in the clubs of Chicago and of New York. The main elements of House dance include Footwork, Jacking, and Lofting. House dance is often improvisational in nature and emphasizes on fast and complex foot oriented steps combined with fluid movements in the torso, as well as floor work. In house dancing there is an emphasis on the subtle rhythms and riffs of the music, and the footwork follows them closely. This is one of the main features that distinguishes house dancing from dancing that was done to disco before house emerged and current dancing that is done to electronic dance music as part of the rave culture.

Video • Here are some links to examples of Waacking and House Dance http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=5 LYCFi. H 4 ACk - Waacking http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=o-XWQBx. WO-A – House Dance