NBS - Participaction - Cherise - Video 2 - HipHop Social Dances

Hello, I am Charise.
I'm from Canada's National Ballet School

and today we have a hip hop class.

All right, let's get right
into the swing of things.

But first, let's make sure
we have enough space around us

to move around today
beautiful with your feet.

Make sure there's nothing
in front of you, beside you,

just have enough room
to get Boogie Woogie with me today.

All right.

Also, make sure you have
some water beside you,

you might need it throughout the class

and if you ever need to pause the video,
go back, review something,

go right ahead.

I also remind you to do so
throughout the video,

just so you have that
in your back pocket, all right.

So, let's get started
with our warm-up today.

Just follow along with me.

We'll do some marches, some hops,
some stretches side to side,

move our head right down to our toes.

Let's get right into it.

Big start off with our feet
apart arms cross

because it's a hip hop class.

Why not? Let's go.

All right. That's what
I put some marches on the spot.

We go five, six, seven, eight and march.

There you go.

This is working our heart
rate up beautiful.

Let's pop up and down, we hop, hey.

That's it. Keep it going dancers.

All right, [inaudible]
at the side we twist.

That's it.

Alright, couple more hops, criss cross.
Let's go. Hey.

Alright, let's go back to our marching,

we march.

[inaudible].

All right, toe tap to the front we tap.

That's it.

To the side, we go.

Have you arms just move by themselves.

Have you please do the back?

That's it. Alright.
Let's go into our head.

We look side to side,
we look and look,

look and look, look and look, that's it.

Alright, head up and down.

We look up and down, up and down.

Beautiful, ear to ear now.

We go ear to ear.

Awesome. All right.
Shoulders roll them back.

We go back.

Awesome.

Having a nice bed underneath as we do so.

Beautiful. To the front.

Hey.

Awesome. All Right.
Let's stretch to the side now.

Pick special rich to one side.

That's it.

Beautiful. Other side.

Wonderful. Bring that down.

Pick reaching up to the sky,

beautiful I'm going to go
all the way down center.

You can hang out here,
you can touch the floor touch,

touch your knees, your feet
wherever you are today, all right.

Beautiful. Nice little stretch here.

Feeling it throughout
the backs of our legs.

Wonderful. With our toes now,
let's walk her feet together.

Beautiful.

And let's take a nice
little bend here and stretch.

Wonderful. Awesome.

A little longer tune that nice stretch,
one more time with the bend

and now we're going to roll it up
vertebrae by vertebrae.

Beautiful. hitting the time
rolling it up to the sky.

Beautiful. Let's have our feet apart

and hands on our hips
around the world we go.

One more.

Other, but we go around.

Awesome.

Beautiful. Alright this one foot behind.

Awesome, switching out
the front of our legs this time,

or you could be touching your toes
in front of your conceited.

There we go.
Bring that foot down.

Same thing with the other foot.

Beautiful.

Hold it there.

Beautiful. Having that one foot behind,

feeling that nice stretch
in the front of the quad.

Beautiful.

And let's bring that foot to the floor ,
ankles just roll them out,

we roll them out.

Beautiful.

Either way and around.

Wonderful. Other foot.

All the way and making sure
full body warmed up

and made me dance today.

Great. All right. Let's shake up one arm,
shake up the other arm.

Shake up one leg,
shake up the other leg.

All body shake.

¡Oh! All right dancers,
I think it's time to go.

Let's start some hip hop today.

Alright, so for today's class,

I'm going to be teaching you
four hip-hop social dances. All right.

So hip-hop started
in the Bronx of New York City,

in the late 70s and Hip-Hop culture
and music and dance,

it really just started
from just social dances.

Yeah, dances
that you had in birthday parties

or school dances, house parties, yeah.

So, I'm going to teach you four dances.

First off, we're going to start off
with the Alf with an A.

Yeah, I'll put an A [inaudible].

Let's have our feet apart arm is going to be up in the air. We're going to bring one leg up to meet it. Who? Down and then switch to the other leg. Ha Boom huh and room ha just like that. All right, but what we're going to do today is going to go single, single, double. All right. So, let's do that together we go. Single. Single. Double A. That's it single. Single. Double with up keep it going. Hey. Hey. double the up and hey. Hey. Doubly up. That's it. All right, so we have the little skeleton of the elf. If you ever want to you get your shoulders involved get your head involved. Okay, get your torso involved. Yeah, let's add a little bit of flavor to that now. Yeah, we got five six seven and eight we go. Hey, hey what how that's it.

Boom. Hey the up last set. Hey dough, but up and hey, yes y'all. All right. Next move for today is called the Cabbage Patch, but I'm going to inform you today. That is also called the Reebok. All right. So sometimes in Hip Hop some moves just have multiple names. Yeah. So, if you ever come across the Cabbage Patch or the Reebok just know that it is this move right here. We're going to start off facing this way. All right one leg in the year. We step on it we go down one the back leg picks up we go back down on that back leg pick up the front you go back down and there's Stuff we go one two, three. All right, let me do that again for you. So, we just did down. Up step it goes back behind. Side step to the other side because we're going to go this way next. Yeah, one last time and then I'll go the other way we go five six seven and eight we go one.

Two steps behind step. Now. This leg is up we go down on it down. Up step behind, that's it. And step behind step and down up. There we go. If you want to get these arms involved, I kind of call them like the choo, choo train arms. Yeah. Hey. Hey and you can bring them around once you have the move even more solid in your body. That's it around. And hey. Hey, alright, let's pick up the pace a little bit we go one two, and a brown one two, and around that's it. Boom. Hey and around that's it Zoom. Hey, keep it going. Hey. Hey. Yeah, the last two. Hey, that's the last one.

Hey, yeah, awesome. That one's called the Cabbage Patch also called the Reebok. All right tubemos left for you. All today. The next one is called the Wu-Tang. All right, let's have our feet apart. We're going have one hand out. Okay, and with this handout you're going bring your hip towards the hand because what you're going to do is going to pull everything back beautiful another arm. Out pull it back. Okay, so we had our hip facing our hand. We pull it back same at the other hand pull it back. Now, we're going to put both hands out Zoom. pull everything back bring it up think of like your sandwich something on the table. Oh, there we go. Yeah, we go. One, two, three and four. One, two, three and four, that's it and one, two, three and four. Hey.

Hey a little faster. Let's go we go what two. Hey what? Hey, one two. Hey, hey, you have room last one. Hey, hey. Alright, I see some hip-hop dancers coming out there in the making I love to see it. Um, so last move up the class today. It's my favorite. So, I always say for us it's called The Humpty Dance. All right Humpty dances like this little criss cross we go Chris Cross just do a little bounce for me. Okay. Okay, Chris Cross. Hey, hey. Hey. Hey now with the arms we go around we go. Hey, hey can have a little swing in your hips ha. Hey. Hey Zoom. Any closer face different directions if you want. Hey, hey see switch on the criss cross. That's it. Boom.

Hey, hey Zoom. Hey, hey. Hey, two more. Ha-ha. Last one. Hey, hey boom. Boom. Boom. Yes, awesome. All right, so we learned our four social dance moves for today. Why not put them in some choreography? Let's go we go from the beginning. We do our elf. Alright hands up we go one. Two double it up. Hey, all right, when we do one set though, so sorry only one set of elves. Okay, we went one, two, three, four we're into our Humpty Dance, but I'm going to do a little variation to it. I'm Going to do Chris Cross hip bump to one side. Whoo and Chris Cross hip bump to the other side. There we go. So just moving your hips side to side. Yeah, after the criss cross. All right from the elf right into the Humpty we go. Six seven and eight we go one.

Two Three four criss cross hit bump Chris Cross hip bump. Awesome. Y'all let's go right into our Cabbage Patch we go one two, three and four other ways. Hey. awesome, right after a Cabbage Patch Wu-Tang Hey. Hey. Hey and Sam it down. Then the very last move Humpty Dance Again, Chris Cross. We wanted this time clap to the front. Clap Chris Cross raise the roof and then pose. That's it. Yeah. All right. Let's do it two times slowly without music. All right we go with the L5 6 7 8 we go one two, double it up Humpty Dance Chris Cross hip bump Chris Cross Cabbage Patch we go. Hey, hey, hey. Hey, that's it.

Hey, hey, hey, hey we go with a hey, hey slam it down Chris Cross. Give it a clap Chris Cross raise the roof and pose. That's its reminder to everybody. If you ever need to pause the video go right ahead. This might be a time to grab some water. I'm sweating over here. So, you might be over there. So, if you ever need to take a pause, we'll do it one more time slowly without music. We go five six seven and eight we go one. Two. Hey. Hey, Chris Cross hip but Chris Cross Cabbage Patch. Let's go and boom. Hey. That room. Hey and that taboo Tang one, two, three. Slam it down. Hey, hey, we give it a clap. Hey, hey, we raise the roof and pose. Yeah, awesome dancers.

Okay, I think it's time for us to do it with music a couple times. Let's get right into it. Let's order for their feet apart arms across. We're ready for the first move. Let's go. Awesome. Let's do the music. If you need a little bounce, give your body a little time to groove, we start bye six seven with the elf. One two. Hey, hey, Chris Cross. How we go Cabbage Patch? and cabbage patch Wu-Tang Ha. Hey. Hey clap. Hey, hey, raise and post. Yeah, that's it. I know it's a little bit quicker. But it works up your heart rate. Yeah, we're going to do it one more time. Maybe a couple more times five. Six, let's go five six to the oh, hey. Hey double it up kids’ crafts. Hey Chris Cross. Hey, Cabbage Patch. That's the hey. Awesome Wu-Tang.

Hey, hey, slam it down. Hey, hey cop. Hey, hey, whoa! ha-ha. Yeah. All right one last time get ready all have so much fun with it. Maybe a little bigger hip bump maybe raising the roof a little higher. Yeah, we start at five six seven with the elf. Hey, ha-ha, hey. Hey, ha-ha, that's its folks. Who? Wonderful work dancers. It's been such a pleasure to dance with you today. Thank you, Caitlin, for assisting me being my seated dancer for today's class. Oh, grab some water. Take a breath. I will see you next time. Have a wonderful day and I hope you enjoy class today. Adios.