I started xelA on the dance moves early:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KADkOnPUNh8
You mean Super xelA, right?
Also, adorable.
What's the music he's swaying to?
The real problem is that everyone knows you can't dance to hip-hop.
The music (which is great) is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVuIpl_0fyg
[Donald Byrd - The Emperor]
He has fine taste in funk for a wee guy.
We were supposed to watch the girls' tiny blond homeschooled hippie friend in his first hip-hop performance, but it overlapped with Pride and we couldn't. At this point, they learn all their moves from Just Dance for Wii, though Nia and her grandma were part of what was then the World's Largest Group version of The Wobble at a visit last summer. Maybe I should worry that heebie's kids are keeping it realer, but I don't.
My kids aren't a-hipping nor a-hopping. But it showed up at the recital and is all over my facebook feed.
Street dance classes are common here for kids, too. Presumably partly because of Diversity, Flawless, et al.
My childhood dance studio had a hip hop dance class back in the late '90s, but I don't seem to recall the students performing in the dance recital.
Nothing like that at the kid's dance school, no surprise there, but there are a bunch of teen/YA classes at the studio for hip hop, breaking, house, popping, etc. Seem to be quite the range of subspecialties, as well. Dancers seem about as diverse as you'd expect in SF. Gotta say though that while white people are represented (though not numerically dominant) in all the classes listed above, I can't recall ever seeing a person of non-pastyness in any of the clogging classes...
Shows promise: http://youtu.be/jfSQWch877c.
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http://youtu.be/jfSQWch877c
I've never known a kid that doesn't feel the funk. I'm all for kiddie dance classes, so they got moves for when they're older. As for cultural appropriation ... I've never known a dancer that doesn't want to introduce more people to the dance.
Yeah, I was just joking about the cultural appropriation piece, though I think there are a lot of white parents doing some of that in the way they talk about it on facebook and so forth.