Nothings up with Hip Hop
Editors Letters || Monday, 4 June, 2007
Just a very quick response to your 'What's up with hip hop' article. I don't think it's necessarily fair to say that contemporary dance has moved on and hip-hop hasn't.
Some comtemporary work has moved on and some hip-hop hasn't, that's fair enough, but the reverse is also true.
Yes, there's a lot of hip-hop dancers out there who think if they take their top off and spin on their heads then they're really pushing the boundaries (man) but then there's a lot of contemporary dance companies who think the same when they do a load of physical movement which is a lot less innovative than what Ultima Vez, for example, were doing in the eighties.
Bad dance is bad dance whatever genre and whoever's doing it. Thankfully, as Article 19 consistently demonstrates, there's a lot of fantastic contemporary work out there. But there's also quite a bit of good hip-hop dance too.
Paul
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