If you’re in a hip-hop student dance group, have tried the hip-hop co-curricular classes, or have enjoyed dancing in a hip-hop club, then this course is for you! Appropriate for any dancers who consider themselves beyond absolute beginners.
This advanced studio course explores the hip-hop dance aesthetic from multiple perspectives, in order to help students develop their own personal relationship to the culture and its influences. Structured around a series of guest workshops by dancers from a range of hip-hop dance traditions, the course will engage with these forms on their own terms, but also with an eye towards exploring the more abstract artistic options that hip-hop dance offers.
Distribution Area: LA
Prerequisites and Restrictions
Significant dance experience in any form and a curiosity and interest in contemporary forms, improvisation, and black diasporic practices. Students should email professor Raphael Xavier at rxw@princeton.edu and/or Joe Schloss at jschloss@princeton.edu with questions and to ask for permission to enroll.
