Hip Hop a choice for Junior Short Dance next season

[enlight78]

It appears Hip Hop will be a choice of Rhythm in the Short Dance for juniors next year. Should be interesting! Of course it would have been exciting to see the senoirs try it out.

[claphappy]

Pattern will be Blues, I believe.

[dorispulaski]

Profanity in the hiphop section is forbidden. I'll be interested to see what the juniors choose. Probably just do all blues

[blue dog]

REQUIREMENTS FOR SHORT DANCE SEASON 2012/13

Rhythm
Junior: Blues or Blues plus one of the following Rhythms: Swing, Hip Hop.

So alas, it's not a requirement to do hip hop, which would be exciting. But I'm sure lots of teams will still opt to put some hip hop into their programs. That rhythm and style has really pervaded popular music for the last two decades. And the dance style (along with pop jazz) is really the dominant dance style in the world for just as long. It's what most competitors grow up with. I'm looking forward to it!

In 2010, Belbin/Agosto had wanted to use hip hop as their folk dance. They ended up doing the Moldovan dance...

[Dragonlady]

I don't think hip hop will work. I'm still traumatized by Tara Lipinski's Hip Hop Special. Hip hop and gliding smoothly is an oxymoron.

[blue dog]

Hip hop and gliding smoothly is an oxymoron.

It's the same with Irish step dancing and Flamenco, but how many times have we been subjected to Riverdance, Lord of the Dance, Carmen, Malaguena, Mala-Carmen, etc?