Dance: Hip Hop

Hip Hop is a cultural movement, it was originally started by African Americans. There is different type of hip hop dance's popping, locking and breaking. Popping came from California, popping is a bounce and sharp move. Locking is like a pause from going fast to a freeze. Breaking is also a street dance, you spin on your head and you give different moves. It is really hard to explain break dancing, but it is one of the hardest moves you would ever learn.

A couple choreographers for hip hop would be Kevin Maher, Rhapsody and Shane Sparks.According to the monster's convention website "Kevin Maher has danced for Missy Elliot, Jenifer Lopez, Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, Mya, Cyndi Lauper, Jonte, George Micheal, and Paulina Rubio." Kevin Maher started at Broadway center training. He was nineteen when he started his career.

Rhapsody is a women, According to Monster's convention site, she has been dancing since she was eight. Rhapsody has been choreographing since she was sixteen. She got a degree in Social science in arts. After her degree she decided to go after her dreams, the one thing she wanted to do the most. At least she succeeded in what she wanted to do.

Shane Sparks is a choreographer for So you think you can dance. When he started dance he was eleven years old. He would dance in talent shows and then one day he got tired of just dancing. Finally he started to teach dances in his backyard. Dance became serious to him when his sister's boyfriend got murdered. The reason why is because dance lets him escape and feel safe.He started in Los Angela's he turned a class of three into one hundred and seventy . This is according to Shane Sparks site.

Here three videos one of each choreographer.