Portland Community College | Portland, Oregon

Upon completion of the course students should be able to:

1. Draw from Hip Hop dance skills to understand Hip Hop as a cultural phenomenon and how Hip Hop fits into the American culture.
2. Use learned improvisational skills in order to promote creative problem solving.
3. Create health and wellbeing via physical activity, self-expression, and group interaction.

Outcome Assessment Strategies will include:
· Attendance and participation
· Creative Projects
· Group or individual choreography
Other Assessment Strategies may include:
· Practical evaluation (exercises, floor work)
· Group or individual choreography
· Written exam to test knowledge of terminology and/or history
· Research paper

Structure
• Warm up
• Isolations
• Strengthening exercises and floor work prep
• Locking or other upper body work
• Skill development
• Longer phrases and/or choreography
• Improvisation
• Cool down/stretch
Movement
• Axial and Locomotor movements
• Ability to subdivide duple pulse, use accent, and syncopated rhythms
• Isolations
• Demonstrate different qualities of movement
• Use waving, locking, and other arm gestures specific to Hip Hop vocabulary
• Basic floor work: Six step, CC, and freezes
• “Toprock” movements
• Improvised sequences and/or musical interpretation