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Welcome to Kids Make Hip Hop Pilot Project
Kids Make Dance combines child-centered dance-making with digital technologies and social media. Our first pilot project, Kids Make Hip Hop, took place in July 2009 in Queens, New York. For this project, we invited children of all ages with and without backgrounds in dance to create their own hip hop routines and document their work with low-cost video camcorders and digital cameras.
On this website, we invite you to enjoy the extensive multimedia content, learn about the ideas that informed this project, and read about the dance and Internet educators who launched this initiative.
Poetry Reading and Improvised Routine
After kids wrote their own poetry, they joined-up with a fellow student who created an improvised hip hop routine:
Blue
My name is Kristen A.K.A. Blue
You wanna see me dance I could show you some moves too.
I don’t play around when it comes to break dancing
I’m too fast for you I only stay on hands, man.
I’m the color of the sky and as fresh as the water.
I do what I do to make you say “OH!”
Repin’ for butterfly
Student reads poetry to the improvised dancing of hip hop teacher Carlos:
Butterfly
People can’t catch me cause I
Fly high and I fly low
I can dance all around you and make you dizzy
All you’ll see are my colors as you stand in awe.
Thursday Morning Warmup
Kids demonstrate a combination of break dance skills following morning warm-up.
Wednesday History Overview with Carlos
In the following video, Carlos discusses hip hop history coverage on previous day of program:
Routine 2 with Historical Hip Hop Moves
On hip hop history day, students created routines that incorporated moves from different decades. Before their routines, they explained what historical hip hop moves they incorporated:
Intro:
Routine:
Routine 3 with Historical Hip Hop Moves
On hip hop history day, students created routines that incorporated moves from different decades. Before their routines, they explained what historical hip hop moves they incorporated:
Routine 1 with Historical Hip Hop Moves
On hip hop history day, students created routines that incorporated moves from different decades. Before their routines, they explained what historical hip hop moves they incorporated:
Routine 4 with Historical Hip Hop Moves
On hip hop history day, students created routines that incorporated moves from different decades. Before their routines, they explained what historical hip hop moves they incorporated:
Hip Hop Soul Train
Kids and teachers enjoy the hip hop soul train while strengthening their improvisational skills: