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HISTORICAL DEVELO
PMENT OF
LINE DANCE
× RETRO DANCE - covers a broad range of blues
based styles developed during the 1930s to 1950s. These
dance styles share similar patterns of movement,
composition, and core dance content but vary with
respect to their characterization, emphasis and structure
to provide clearly related but distinct dance

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HISTORICAL DEVELO
PMENT OF
LINE DANCE
× Retro music was become popular because of the large
dancing movement all around the world. It was
popularized in the late 1960s as an alternative music
styles preferred by the youth. The Funk, hip hop and soul
are the famous types of dance flourished in the North
America. During the mid-1970s to early 1980s, Retro
Pop Dance reached its peak as a form of entertainment of
the youngsters of their various backgrounds.

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HISTORICAL DEVELO
PMENT OF
LINE DANCE

× The origin of the Retro Pop Dance can be traced and

identified through the formation of the night clubs –
discotheques where Nazi occupied Paris. The radio
presenters is usually called as disc jockey or commonly
known as DJ wherein they played Jazz records and the
like.

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HISTORICAL DEVELO
PMENT OF
LINE DANCE

× To name the few musical hits of disco

performers such as Donna Summer, Boney
M, Bee Gees, The Tramps, Chic and Gloria
Gaynor which inspired by the Hollywood
films (Saturday Night and Thanks God It’s
Friday.

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HISTORICAL DEVELO
PMENT OF
LINE DANCE

× In the Philippine setting, retro pop music or disco songs

are as follows: Bongga Ka ‘Day, Annie Batungbakal,
Manila, Pers Lab, Langit Na Naman, Dying To Tell You,
Bitin Sa Iyo, and Beh, Buti Nga was popularized by the
The Hotdog band. After the decline of disco music,
practitioners used this dance for the fitness exercises.

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Etiquette in Dance
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Every dance class that a student will
attend have their own rules or policies to
follow. These rules are ways to make the
dance session more productive and
successful.

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Here are some etiquette to follow:
1. Always pay attention to your dance instructor. It is
essential to listen to every detail in order to familiarize
with the lessons easily.
2. Wearing the appropriate dance attire. It should be
observed from time to time in order to avoid
destruction while attending the classes.

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Here are some etiquette to follow:
1. Attending classes on time. It is more on
professionalism aspect that every student should
possess at all times. The students should be in the
class on or before the session will begin. For this
reason, they can have an ample time to prepare
their needs during the classes.

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Here are some etiquette to follow:
4. Respect one another. It is a common virtue
that students should follow whenever they are
in the class.
5. Always aim for the BEST. Keep on
moving and practicing until you make it
perfect.

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RETRO POP DANCE
The Running Man - MC Hammer, was the proponent of
this famous dance step. It is widely performed in different
videos and in disco houses.
The Thriller - This dance step was popularized by Michael
Jackson during the 80’s. It is considered as classic dance
move because it is still incorporating to other dance craze
up to this generation.

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RETRO POP DANCE
The Sprinkler - This dance step is just like imitating the
garden sprinkler. You just have to assume that you are
watering irrigation or a garden.

The Roger Rabbit - This dance imitates the floppy

movements of the lead cartoon character as seen in the
1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

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HIPHOP
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HIPHOP
– refers to street dance styles primarily performed to
hip-hop music or that have evolved as part of hip-hop
culture. It includes a wide range of styles primarily
breaking which was created in the 1970s and made
popular by dances crews in the United States.

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HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE
HIP-HOP
Hip-hop, cultural movement that attained widespread
popularity in the 1980s and ’90s; also, the backing
music for rap, the musical style incorporating
rhythmic and/or rhyming speech that became the
movement’s most lasting and influential art form.

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Origins and The Old School
Although widely considered a synonym for rap music, the
term hip-hop refers to a complex culture comprising four
elements:
1. Deejaying, or turntumbling
2. Rapping also known as “MCing” or “rhyming
3. Graffiti painting, also known as “graf” or “writing

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4. B-boying
which encompasses hip-hop dance, style, and attitude,
along with the sort of virile body language that
philosopher Cornel West described as “postural semantics.
5. “Knowledge of self/consciousness,” is sometimes added
to the list of hip-hop elements, particularly by socially
conscious hip-hop artists and scholars.)

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New School
In the mid-1980s the next wave of rappers, the new school,
came to prominence
A. Run-D.M.C., a trio of middle-class African Americans
who fused rap with hard rock, defined a new style of hip
dress.

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2. Def Jam featured three important innovators: 
a. LL Cool J, rap’s first romantic superstar;
b. the Beastie Boys, a white trio who broadened rap’s
audience and popularized digital sampling (composing
with music and sounds electronically extracted from
other recordings);  
c. Public Enemy, who invested rap with radical black
political ideology, building on the social
consciousness of 
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five’s “The
Message” (1982).
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In the 21st century the music—born from the
sonic creations of the deejay—saw its greatest
innovations in the work of such studio
wizards as Timbaland, Swizz Beatz, and the
Neptunes. Still, major stars continued to
emerge.

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