STEPPERS-LINE DANCERS CRUISES 2007- 2008-2009
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STEPPERS-LINE DANCERS CRUISES 2007- 2008-2009
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SOUL LINE DANCE VIDEO CLIPS: What is Soul Line Dancing? How Is It Different From Country Line Dancing? Soul Line Dancing is freestyle, ad-lib dance movements performed to a fixed structure of dance routines, danced to variety of music: R and B, hip-hop, contemporary jazz, contemporary gospel, or discotheque beats. At our last count there were approximately 800 Soul Line Dance Routines, choreograph by various groups across the USA. (North East Region, Eastern Region, Southern Region, Midwest Region and Western Pacifica Region. Where and how did it began? As we all know, through dance history, line dancing is not new. When we talk about dance, and what it represents, we should first start with the mother Africa. African tribes use dance as a form of communications and celebration through hand clapping and body stomping. Before the Slave Trade entrapped Africa their form of dance incorporate some form of line dancing. As taken from Britannica Encyclopedia, there were play and work dances. The Wakamba tribe would play leapfrog in a line dance formation called Makinder Kenya; the Tuti huners would perform their lion dance, Kivu Zaire another form of line dancing; the farmers of Savanni lived in swampland they would walk firmly on the sun banks and follow their team leader while dancing at a study tempo. There are four primary African dance formations: Group routine, Group freestyle, Group routine with lead dancer and The solo dancer. The most used formation is the group team performed a circle, but most preferable in a line. African dances are earth centered and the dance internalizes the rhythmic pulse of the dance movement through fixed positions; interpreting the percussive patterns fot the music through postures, gestures and steps. This type of dance interpretations ghastly from one continent to the next, as Africans because entrapped into the slave trade. |