All the dance aspirants who wanted to enhance their dancing skills were a part of a hip-hop dance workshop held here on Monday.
Conducted by a young dance maestro of contemporary and hip-hop style dance Akshay Mandariya, the aspirants learned the hip-hop style. The workshop was held at Bhojpur Club hall on Monday.
The aspirants learned to groove and the moves on the recent chartbuster ‘Shape of You’. Hip Hop dance classes can be called lots of different things.
The style of movement started back in the 1970's when disco and funk dancing were popular. Notably, in that time, lots of different moves, steps and styles have been created. But with modern innovations in dancing styles the young dancing aspirants are creating new steps.
Before the practical class, Akshay took the technical and theoretical class of the aspirants. He told them about the dance style and its origin. He also told them about the increasing popularity of the dance style.
later, Akshay talked about the techniques of the dancing style. He told the aspirants about various movements in hip-hop style. He said that today hip-hop style is gaining popularity among the youngsters and will soon become one of the loved dancing style of Indian dancers as well.
He made the aspirants perform on Shape of You with few mixed beats, which was a total fun. In addition to learning a full performance piece, the aspirants worked on elements of popping, locking, and breaking while having a chance to develop their own movements.