(Laura Casamitjana)

The video it’s quite short. It is a group of African - American people dancing and one speaker, who explain the history about the bob stile and the music. The Bop is a stile of social dance. Dance is a language and a social dance is an expression from a community. Bop stile is an African - American stile and an important tradition; with grow up to much quickly. The speaker commented that the present always contains the past, and the past said who we are and who we will be are. This sentence it is really important, because it’s important to remember the history of the black people. For this reason we need to do and practice ours traditions, to remember whom we are. Cakewalk it’s inside the Bop stile, it was a performance. Charleston it is a variety of this stile of music, was very important and polemic in 1923. In the more casual social group context, individual dancers may choose to dance "alone", improvising in response to the music or copying dancers around them. Secondly, the Bee´s knees, is a stile that needs to move the legs. Continuously started the twist, that was a famous movement, who did everyone. The history continuous, and this stile become in a Hip-Hop. We dance to move ours bodies and express emotion. Laura Casamitjana