SUPPLE:Hi, my name is Supple. I'm an international choreographer and artistic director. I work with the likes of Madonna, Jamiroquai, Janet Jackson, and many more.
SUPPLE:'Dance has been a big part of my life. 'Two style that I'll be teaching you today,' one of them is Bhangra and another one is street.
SUPPLE:Bhangra originally comes from north-east India, in the Punjab region. It's a dance style that was used to celebrate the harvest for farmers, and now a lot of people use it for weddings and a lot of other celebration dances.
SUPPLE:Street dance comes in many different forms, the style that I'll be teaching you today is an old-school style called Hype.
SUPPLE:'It originates from people having a lot of fun 'at a lot of really cool dance parties.'
SUPPLE:To help me do this I enlisted the help of…
ALL:Mischief Dance Crew from Essex!
'Ha, ha, ha, what you laughing at?'
DANCER ONE:We took part in Alesha's StreetDance Stars competition.
ALESHA DIXON:Mischief!
CHEERING
SUPPLE:Health and safety is really important when you're dancing, so just make sure, before you start dancing, you…
DANCER TWO:Remove all jewellery.
DANCER THREE:Get rid of any chewing gum.
DANCER FOUR:Drink plenty of water.
DANCER FIVE:Rest if you feel tired at any point.
DANCER SIX:Wear the right clothing and footwear.
DANCER SEVEN:Make sure you use all the space in the room.
SUPPLE:Alright, so now let's get started.
SUPPLE:Alright guys, just before we start the routine, make sure you never skip the warm-up. It's very, very important. It reduces the risk of injury, and you also get your heartbeat up, which is very important.
SUPPLE:So I'm going to teach you a very simple warm-up routine, and then we'll get to it. So let's get started.
SUPPLE:Alright, so make sure your feet are parallel, your weight is transferred onto the ball of your foot, which is the front of your feet,
SUPPLE:so you're raising your heels up, and we're just going to naturally bounce. OK.
SUPPLE:Alright, so now as you can hear dhol drums you just want to follow that rhythm. Relax your shoulders. And just feel the music.
SUPPLE:Relax your knees. As you notice, my shoulders are moving a lot, so let's emphasis that, OK kids?
SUPPLE:Now let's raise our hands up.
SUPPLE:Now the great thing about Bhangra is that it's a joyous dance, so you want to give that feeling.
SUPPLE:Follow the rhythm. And now bring your hands down. And up.
SUPPLE:With the joyous Bhangra feeling. That's it, you're doing great.
SUPPLE:Alright, so now we've got the first feeling of Bhangra. Now the next thing about hip hop and street dance is more the down beat. So if you can hear that one, two.
SUPPLE:Can you hear it?
SUPPLE:That's it, so it's always on the down. Are you with me, guys? That's it. And that's more of a hip-hop feel to it.
SUPPLE:Alright. Are you with me? Good.
SUPPLE:Alright, so now let's start moving our shoulders around, just to warm our shoulders up. Breathe in, and breathe out.
SUPPLE:Alright, so now as we're doing Bhangra, let's start hopping on one foot. Onto the next foot.
SUPPLE:Now you speed it up. Hands on hips. Make sure your shoulders are shaking. And bring that joyous feeling to it, and raise your hands up.
SUPPLE:Are you with me? Good. Alright, so now we have warmed up a little bit, and the last thing is we just want to loosen up our ankles. So just rotate your left ankle anticlockwise and now clockwise.
SUPPLE:Other foot, clockwise… and anticlockwise.
SUPPLE:Okay, let's roll our shoulders back. And forwards. Move our arms in and out. And I think we're ready for the routine.
SUPPLE:Alright guys, so let's get started. Let's hop to one side, feet down, make sure they're shoulder-width apart, clap.
SUPPLE:Going to the other side, feet down, then clap. Criss-cross, clap, criss-cross, clap, now we're going to Bhangra step.
SUPPLE:One, two three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Now let's go and pick it up so it's at a higher speed, make sure when you're doing the Bhangra step, just for argument's sake, you keep to these hands.
SUPPLE:So now let's speed it up and do it on counts. Five, six, seven, eight. One and two, three and four, and five, six, and seven, eight.
SUPPLE:One, two three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Five, six, seven, eight. One and two, three and four, and five, six, and seven, eight. One, two three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
SUPPLE:Great. Let's now do it to the music. One, two three, four, five, and six, and seven, eight. One and two, three and four, and five, and six, and seven, eight.
SUPPLE:And one, two, and three, and four, and five, six, seven, eight. Well done.
SUPPLE:'Remember your stance, 'your hands, 'and criss-cross your feet.'
SUPPLE:Now for section two. Make sure your legs are wide apart. The shape of your legs is more like a house, and not a teapot, please avoid that.
SUPPLE:We're going to be doing the same thing on the ball of our feet, hands similar position as last time, we're going to go one way, up on three and then clap.
SUPPLE:Let's try that with our feet. Five, six, seven, eight. One and two, and three, four. Let's do the same thing over the other side. Five, six, seven, eight.
SUPPLE:One and two, and three, four. Now we're going to go into the hip-hop section.
SUPPLE:You go similar hand positions, one, two, and three, four. Again. One, two, three, four. If you're finding it hard to do the hands and the feet, just stick to the hands.
SUPPLE:Make sure when you're doing the Bhangra section, the shoulder is emphasised. Now let's do it to the counts.
SUPPLE:Make sure your legs are apart on the ball of your foot, five, six, seven, eight. One and two and three, four, one and two, and three, four.
SUPPLE:Hip-hop one, two and three and four. And one and two and three and four.
SUPPLE:Five, six, seven, eight. One and two and three, four. One and two and three, four. And one and two and three and four. One and two and three and four. Now let's try and do it to the music.
SUPPLE:One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Go one and two and three, four.
SUPPLE:One and two and three, four. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. And that's the end of section two.
SUPPLE:'Remember it's a house, not a teapot, 'turn out, 'and jump.'
SUPPLE:Okay, so now let's go into section three. If you can pair up with the person next to you.
SUPPLE:So now you tuck, kick, hop and step. Tuck, kick, hop and step. Go to the person next to you and clap twice, one, two.
SUPPLE:To the front, other side, three, four, to the front. Now you're going to Charleston. One, kick your leg up, two, three, touch the ground, four.
SUPPLE:One, two, three, four. Great. Now let's do it to a count.
SUPPLE:Five, six, seven, eight. And one and two and three and four. Five and six, seven and eight. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
SUPPLE:Five, six, seven, eight. And one and two, and three and four, five and six, seven and eight. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. You did very, very well. Now let's go and do it to the music.
SUPPLE:One, two, three and four and five and six and seven, eight. And one and two, three and four, five and six, seven, eight. And one, two, four, six, eight.
SUPPLE:And that's the end of section three. You're doing amazing.
SUPPLE:'Remember, tuck, kick, hop, 'tuck, kick, hop, 'partner work, 'and groove.'
SUPPLE:Okay, going on to section four which is the performance section. We'll be putting all of the moves together, and making a great performance.
SUPPLE:After that, I'll be giving you choreographic tasks to get really creative. So let's get to it. Music please.
00:12:24:05 00:12:34:08SUPPLE:Now we're going to get creative. 'Have one person dance stationary and the other dance around them, back and forth however you like.
SUPPLE:'For your second task, your pairs either dance as mirrors 'or working in opposites.
SUPPLE:'Now for your third task, 'you can work with levels. 'One dancer can either dance down or up.'
SUPPLE:It's really important to cool down after you've danced. It slows down your heartbeat, and gets your breathing back to normal. So let's breathe in, and let's breathe out.
SUPPLE:Let's just do some very simple steps, going one way, one, two, three, four.
SUPPLE:Other side, one, two, three, four. Lift my hands up, one, two, three, four. Other side, one, two, three, four.
SUPPLE:Breathing in. And breathing out. Breathing in, all the way down. Stay there, and breathe out.
SUPPLE:Slowly roll up, with relaxed knees.
SUPPLE:So now we're going to go and start stretching. So if we just pull our right thigh. Breathe in. And breathe out. Again, breathe in.And breathe out.
SUPPLE:Okay, let's go onto the other side. This is very good for your balance. And you should be feeling the stretch right here, on your thigh.
SUPPLE:If you can't feel it, bring your pelvis forward and bring your leg further back. Breathe in, and breathe out. So now our second stretch is bring your left leg forward, all the weight onto your right thigh, press it down, toe up, stretch.
SUPPLE:Hyperextend your back, so you can feel your stretch right on your hamstring. Try to have a flat back. Breathe in. And breathe out.
SUPPLE:Breathe in. And breathe out. Then swap legs. Toe up. All the weight onto your left leg. Flex your feet. Arch your back so it's flat, breathe in. And breathe out.
SUPPLE:Can you feel that? Breathe in. And breathe out. And that's the end of the work-out. By putting some very simple Bhangra steps and old-school hip-hop Hype steps and fusing them together, you can make your own hip-hop Bhangra routine.
SUPPLE:It's very simple to do, so why don't you try it?
Video summary
International choreographer Supple teaches a bhangra and street fusion style with the help of Mischief dance crew from CBBC's Alesha’s Street Dance Stars.
Supple gives a brief history of bhangra and hype (Street style) followed by a demonstration.
The warm up is taught in a follow my leader style using bhangra fusion music.
Supple briefly explains the differences in the two styles and introduces basic moves from both styles throughout the warm up.
There are three sections; each section contains street and bhangra steps and is broken down and repeated with teaching points, counts and music, giving visual and oral directions throughout. Section three focuses on partner work.
The group then perform the three sections together with a chosen piece of music using props on their wrists as worn when performing traditional bhangra dance but with a street edge.
Supple gives three options visually and orally, working creatively with a partner, dancing in unison while mirroring and using levels.
This clip is from the BBC series, Street Dance Masterclass.
Teacher Notes
This short film can be used as an introduction to street dance and bhangra.
It can also be used in the classroom as a follow my leader style session, broken down over a four to six week scheme (depending on time and the discretion of the teacher leading the session).
This video could also be used as a research tool for older groups when looking at different street fusion dance styles.
It will also introduce a group to a new dance style and show how to fuse different styles together.
Exploring the art of street dance, this series will be relevant for teaching physical education and dance at primary level.
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