House dance
House dance grew out of underground club scenes in Chicago and New York in the 1980s, danced to loud, bass-heavy house music chosen by DJs. Its three core elements are jacking, a rippling movement of the torso, footwork, and lofting. The style prizes improvisation, fast intricate steps joined to a fluid torso, and close listening to the rhythms and riffs of the music.
Today house is a standard category of street-dance competition. Juste Debout in Paris lists House Dance among its final categories; SDK Europe is a street-dance camp held in Brno, Czech Republic; and House Dance International, founded in New York in 2007, focuses on dance forms of house-music culture, including vogue, hustle and waacking. Active scenes exist across Europe, Japan and the Americas.
Sources
- House dance — Wikipedia
- House Dance International — Wikipedia
- Juste Debout — official site
- SDK Europe — official site
Organisations connected with this dance
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