Tip of the Day: Benefits of Hip Hop Dance For Technical Dancers

Dancers at Daytona Dance Studio, Amanda's Dance Center

Q: How does taking hip-hop class benefit a technical dancer?

A:  Hip hop dance class utilizes high impact and low impact footwork, isolations, and musicality.  It can help to improve overall general movement, free range of motion, body control and awareness, musicality, and most importantly a fun healthy workout.  This type of grounded movement can give a dancer a sense of freedom that can sometimes get lost in classical disciplines of dance. Studying various forms of dance can benefit the dancer to be as well rounded as possible and more employable.  Especially when training for a dancing career or teaching and choreography career.



Written by Shannon Thomas