What Is Urban Dance?

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Summary: Interested in the history of dance? Let our expert help you understand the development of urban dance moves in this free video clip.

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Blitz Mendez Blitz Freestyle Productions is an entertainment educational company in Austin, Texas. To continue the ground breaking work of Hip Hop Dance, Blitz has establ... read more

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What Is Urban Dance?

How are y'all doing today? You are with Blitz the choreographer and we are here with expertvillage.com. We can go back into history, history in my knowledge is that back in the 30s and 20s and we go on and on back and back. Where slavery was around and when slavery was around back in the 1800s it has just basically developed. What I mean by develop is that these people broke out there chains, they did not have any weapons, they did not have any type of way to show how they have fear to actually take over your nation. Take over your tribe or take over any type of tradition culture that you have. So what they did was develop a style called Compute. Compute is basically a style like you walk back here and then you just do different things. In this position here and then sometimes they might want to go down and they use the right leg to kick you. They come back up and use the left leg and just a whole abstract style.