Ill Moves: Hip Hop Dance

All World Dance Has Launched!

I've been saying All World Dance was about to launch since late last year.  Just took me a minute to get to it but it's here now!

It's a site focused on dance across genres and across national boundaries, though the U.S. will tend to dominate due to their media machinery.  But I'll keep working on expanding coverage.

Yes, there's hip hop dance but there's also coverage of ballet, modern dance, dance on tv, dance movies, dance games and all sorts of other stuff.

Check it out!

Carla Stalling Huntington: Hip Hop Dance

Carla Stalling Huntington - Hip Hop Dance: Meanings and Messages

Carla Stalling Huntington's Hip Hop Dance: Meanings and Messages

Hip Hop Dance: Meanings and Messages - Carla Stalling Huntington

Just found out about Carla Stalling Huntington's Hip Hop Dance: Meanings and Messages so I haven't checked it out yet but it sounds pretty serious:

"Tracing the African American dance from the Diaspora to the dance floor, this book covers a social history germane not only to the African American experience, but also to the global experience of laborers who learn lessons from hip hop dance. Examining hip hop dance as text, as commentary, and as a function of identity construction within the confines of consumerism, the book draws on popular cultural images from films, commercials, and dance studios. A bibliography, discography, and filmography are included."

Carla Stalling Huntington is described as a "marketing and management professor" who "lives and works in southwestern Missouri."

Book review at Dancer Universe by Joy Held.