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

Hello, I am Cherise.
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 will 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 crossed,

because it's a hip hop class.

Why not? Let's go.

♪ (music starts) ♪

All right. That sort of fix
the 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 hop up
and down, we hop, hey.

That's it. Keep it going, dancers.

All right, let's tweak it,
side to side we twist.

That's it.

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

All right, let's go back to our marching,

we march.

That's it.

All right, toe taps to the front, we tap.

That's it.

To the side we go.

Off some arms just move by themselves.
Have you please do the back?

That's it. All right.
Let's go into our head.

We look side to side,
we look and look,

look and look, that's it.

All right, 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.

Big stretch over to one side.

That's it.

Beautiful. Other side.

Wonderful. Bring that down.

Big reaching up to the sky,

Beautiful, we're gonna go
all the way down center.

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

you 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 our 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 back apart,

and hands on our hips,
around the world we go.

One more.

Other, but we go around.

That's it.

Beautiful. All right.
Let's put one foot behind.

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

or you could be touching your toes
in front if you're seated.

There we go.
Bring that foot down.

Same thing with the other foot.

Beautiful.

Hold it there.

♪ (music starts again) ♪

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, roll them out.

Beautiful. All the 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.
Whole body shake.

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

Let's try some hip hop today.

All right, 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 the social dances, yeah?

Dances that you had at 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, Alf with an A. We start.
Let's have our feet apart.

Arms are going to be up in the air,

we're going to bring
one leg up to meet it.

Down, and then switch to the other leg.

Just like that. All right?

But what we're going to do today
is going to go single, single, double.

So, let's do that together.
We go single, single, double it up.

That's it. Single, single, double it up.
Keep it going.

Hey, hey, double it up

and hey, hey, double it up.

That's it. All right. So we have
the little skeleton of the Alf.

If you ever want
to get your shoulders involved,

get your head involved,
get your torso involved, yeah?

Let's add a little bit
of flavor to that now, yeah?

We go five, six, seven and eight.
We go, hey, hey, double it up.

Hey, what? Hey and double it up.

That's it. Boom, hey, double it up.
Last set.

Hey, double it 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.

One leg in the air.

We step on it, we go down now.

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 a three-step.

We go one, two, three.
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, step behind step.

Now, this leg is up, we go down on it.

Down, up, step behind, step, that's it.

And down, up, 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 also bring them around

once you have the move
even more solid in your body.

That's it, around.

And hey, hey, all right,
let's pick up the pace a little bit.

We go one, two, and around.

One, two, and around, that's it.

Boom, hey and around, that's it.

Zoom, hey, keep it going.

Hey, zoom, hey, ah, da, da, da.

Zoom, hey, eh, yeah, da,da, last two.

Hey, yeah, da, da, last one.

Hey, yeah, da,da. Awesome.

That one's called the Cabbage Patch,
also called the Reebok.

Two more moves left for you all today.

The next one is called the Wu-Tang.

All right, let's have our feet apart.

We're going to have one hand out,

and with this hand out

you're going to bring your hip
towards the hand

because what you're going to do
is going to pull everything back.

Beautiful. Other 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
or 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 one, two, zoom, hey, hey.

One, two, zoom, hey, hey.

One, two, hey, hey, yeah, boom, boom.

Last one. Hey, hey.

All right, I see some hip-hop dancers
coming out there in the making,

I love to see it.

So last move up the class today
is my favorite,

so I always save it for last.

It's called The Humpty Dance.

Humpty dance is like this,
little criss cross we go.

Criss cross, just do
a little bounce with me.

Hey, hey, criss cross.
Hey, hey, hey, ha, ha.

Hey, hey, hey, ha, ha.
Now with the arms so we go around.

We go, hey, hey,
it can have a little swing in your hips

Ha, ha, hey, hey, hey, zoom, zoom.

And it goes the face different
directions if you want. Hey, hey.

See, switch on the criss cross.
That's it. Boom, boom.

Hey, hey, hey, zoom, 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 Alf. Hands up.

We go one, two, double it up.

Hey, all right,
we want to do one set though,

so sorry, only one set of Alf, 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 criss cross,
hip bump to one side.

Whoo, criss cross,
hip bump to the other side.

There we go. So just moving
your hips side to side

after the criss cross.

From the Alf right into the Humpty.

We go five, six, seven and eight.

We go one, two, three,
four, criss cross, hip bump,

criss cross, hip bump.
Awesome, y'all.

Let's go right into our Cabbage Patch.

We go one, two, three,
and four, other way.

Hey. Awesome.

Right after a Cabbage Patch,
Wu-Tang.

Hey, hey, hey and slam it down.

Then the very last move,
Humpty Dance again, criss cross.

We're going this time clap to the front.

Clap, criss 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 Alf.
Five, six, seven, eight.

We go one, two, double it up,
Humpty Dance, criss cross,

hip bump, criss cross,
cabbage patch we go.

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. That's it.

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, we go with A,

hey, hey slam it down, criss cross.

Give it a clap, criss cross,
raise the roof and pose.

That's it. 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,
criss cross, hip bump, crisss cross.

Cabbage Patch. Let's go and boom.

Hey. da, da, da.
Boom, hey, da, da, da.

Wu-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 the feet apart,
arms are crossed.

We're ready for the first move.
Let's go.

♪ (music starts) ♪

Awesome. Let's do the music.

If you need a little bounce,
give your body a little time to groove.

We start five, six, seven with the Alf.

One, two, hey, hey, criss cross,
ha, criss cross, ha,

we go Cabbage Patch
and Cabbage Patch, Wu-Tang.

Ha, hey, hey, clap, hey, hey,
raise and pose.

Yeah, that's it.
I know it's a little bit quicker.

But it works up your heart rate.

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, criss cross.

Hey, criss cross. Hey, Cabbage Patch.

That's it. Hey.

Awesome. Wu-Tang.

Hey, hey, slam it down.
Hey, hey, ha, hey, hey, whoo, ha, ha.

Yeah. All right. One last time.

Get ready all,
have so much fun with it.

Maybe a little bigger hip-hop,
maybe raising the roof a little higher.

Yeah, we start at five, six,
seven with the Alf.

Hey, ha, ha, hey, hey.

♪ (music continues) ♪

Hey, ha, ha. That's it, folks.

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.

Whoo! Grab some water, take a breath.
I will see you next time.

Have a wonderful day
and I hope you enjoyed class today.

Adios.