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The Music Room
HOUSE
House dance is a part of new-school dance. According to Ejoe Willson (shown in picture) who is considered one of the best house dancer in NYC, it started out around 1988. It is dance for house music. While hip-hop music is mostly listened by African Americans, house music is loved by all races and many kinds of people. It is like 70's disco music. Therefore, there was much more cultural diversity in house clubs and the house dance was established from this atmosphere. Hispanic people who has a background of salsa or Milenge, Africans who do african dance, brazilians who do capoeira - afro brazilian martial arts, b-boys, hip-hop dancers, Jazz dancers, tap dancers, all these people created house dance in NY. Capoeira has influenced house dance a lot. Ejoe says that in house dance, music controls your body while in hip-hop, you control your body to the beat. This means that house dance is more free style than hip hop and its emphasis is on footwork. In NY, there are many problems such as fightings in hip-hop clubs and people can't just purely enjoy dancing. This makes house clubs in NY popular. The most popular house club in NY is Sound Factory Bar on Wednesday.
