Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Diana Ung - America's Best Dance Crew: Quest Crew
America's Best Dance Crew (ABDC) has been going for 3 seasons now. They feature dance crews from all over the US and eliminate crews weekly by viewers' votes in order to find "America's Best Dance Crew". What I love about this show is the all the styles of hip hop that you see from different parts of the US. This video features the dancing of Quest Crew, the winners of the third season of ABDC. In this challenge called "Hip Hop Decathalon", they were given the task to put different elements of hip hop into their routine. The moves were: threading, waving, tutting, house, and krumping. They explained this briefly in the beginning of the video and shows us how they prepared for it. Quest Crew were amazing in the performance and brought together hip hop and theatre. I think this video shows how hip hop is evolving. The judges' comments are at the end of the video and this also is interesting because it shows how people currently see and judge hip hop.
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After watching this video and comparing it to the video I posted, I noticed that this Dance Crew paid a lot of attention to minor details such as the precise and intricate movements of the hands and even fingers. The hand movements looked challenging alone, and to perform them synchronized with perfect angles was amazing to watch! It was apparent that this dance team spent hours practicing in order to perfect each step. Both my video and this video seem to include a theater element. It is interesting to see how at present, this element is being incorporated in many hip-hop performances as hip-hop is becoming more mainstream again. It makes me wonder why dancers feel they need to add different elements to their performance rather than sticking to the original styles of hip-hop. Are these additions included into hip-hop performances to grab the attention and make it more appealing to the new generation? Although additions may make a performance more interesting, I am afraid that such changes will gradually transform hip-hop and the original movements and style may be lost.
--Rana
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