Personal Narrative: Qualities Of African-American Dance

One more example of an activity that shares qualities of African-American dance is cheerleading. Cheerleaders blended different styles of dances in their routines, like street dancing and hip-hop dancing. Their attire are comfortable so they can fluently move around for multi-unit movements. Another example is street performers on The Fremont Street Experience. While I was working for Starbucks, my walk to work involved walking across the Las Vegas Strip to my location that I worked that. I would typically identify different street performers who do hip-hop dancing, break dancing, and even ballet! There was obvious proof that they have thoroughly studied choreographies inspired by African-American dance whenever I spectate these performers.
Overall, this course taught us about the history of African-American dance. For African-Americans, dance was their heart and soul. Dance helped raise their spirits while being slaves, helped them expressed their struggles and culture, and this feeling stuck with them even to today. Through the course of history, dance changed the way people examine African-Americans in a positive way. I have one friend, Kevin T., who knows choreographies to Korean music videos. After watching the type of dances he would perform while watching these music videos, I discovered that the pop stars he was imitating adapted multi-unit movements that can be said to be inspired by African dance. This is one of a myriad of example of how I apply what I learned from this course to real life situations.