{"id":1683,"date":"2019-09-08T20:29:33","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T03:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/isabelle\/?page_id=1683"},"modified":"2019-09-15T19:44:07","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T02:44:07","slug":"lesson-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/isabelle\/lesson-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>The Art of Dance with Bruce:\u00a0Introduction to Foundation<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>TEST: <\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>Friday, September 20, 2019 in class<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><em><strong><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Grade 8 retreat leaders <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">only<\/span>: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 @ 7:30am in the dance studio<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Tuesday, September 10, 2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Operational definitions:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bounce:<\/strong>\u00a0(Of an object, especially a ball) move quickly up, back, or away from a surface after hitting it; rebound (once or repeatedly)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rocking\/Swinging:<\/strong>\u00a0The action of moving or being moved gently to and fro or from side to side. In dance swinging refers to a smoother variant.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Opposition:<\/strong>\u00a0The feeling or effect created as a result of body parts moving away from each other or a common point<\/p>\n<p><strong>DON\u2019T SWEAT THE TECHNIQUE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are an infinite number of ways to move through space. A lot of these ways will cross over between dance styles with what&#8217;s right in one being wrong in another. There is no universal technique. Generally, the easiest distinction to make initially is by categorizing the styles by what their default groove is (note that all styles utilize both up and down however all have one that is the \u201cdefault\u201d, with the one exception being animation). The direction refers to the direction of momentum on the whole beat (1,2,3,4). A style with an up groove by default will be intrinsically funky, fun, lively, and joyful. A style with a down groove as its default however will intrinsically represent struggle, resistance, power, and grittiness.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Up groove \u2013 Locking, Waacking, Popping, House\n<ul>\n<li>Move: turtleneck, popcorn<\/li>\n<li>Music:\n<ul>\n<li><em>Lunar<\/em> by Franc Moody<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Down groove \u2013 Krump, Hip hop, Breakin, House\n<ul>\n<li>Moves:\n<ul>\n<li>Steve Martin<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Music:\n<ul>\n<li><em>Don&#8217;t Sweat the Technique<\/em> by Eric B. &amp; Rakim<\/li>\n<li><em>Blue Moon<\/em> by Earthgang<\/li>\n<li><em>Say It &#8211; Instrumental by J Dilla<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One can groove all body parts in the same way or direction, or choose not to in order to create\u00a0an <strong>opposition<\/strong><b>\u00a0<\/b>effect. For now, however, they are all following the <u>same rhythm<\/u>, this will be an important distinction later on.<\/p>\n<p>There are different types of grooves one can breakdown into smaller components or movement types.<\/p>\n<p>The most basic and common is the <strong>bounce<\/strong>. The bounce can be thought of as a controlled and softened jump (you have to bend to extend). In addition to there being bounces which generally we speak of on a vertical plane (up, down), there are <strong>rocks <\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>swings\u00a0<\/strong>which we generally speak of on a horizontal plane (front, back, side, diagonal). The first exposure of rocking\/swinging for humans is that of a baby rocker and the rhythm\/motion it has.<\/p>\n<p>Rocks and swings are especially important for building momentum necessary for some moves, which is why they are so crucial for breakin\u2019, to the point where toprocking has become a respected style of its own.<\/p>\n<p>When combining bounces and rocks\/swings we start to dance 3-dimensionally and become able to develop our own unique grooves and style.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Art of Dance with Bruce:\u00a0Introduction to Foundation TEST: Friday, September 20, 2019 in class Grade 8 retreat leaders only: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 @ 7:30am in the dance studio Tuesday, September 10, 2019 Operational definitions: Bounce:\u00a0(Of an object, especially &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/isabelle\/lesson-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21555,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1683","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/isabelle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/isabelle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/isabelle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/isabelle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21555"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/isabelle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1683"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/isabelle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1795,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/isabelle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1683\/revisions\/1795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/isabelle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}