Global beat.A feisty crew of Brooklyn girls go popping, locking, and arabesquing in Gamon (meaning the "earless lute lute, musical instrument that has a half-pear-shaped body, a fretted neck, and a variable number of strings, which are plucked with the fingers. The long lute, with its neck much longer than its body, seems to have been older than the short lute, existing very early player"). The girls are the hippest blend of Japanese, American, and African American African American Multiculture A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. See Race. , with hair flying or tucked into caps. The toughest one saunters over to a koto koto (kō`tō), a Japanese string instrument related in structure to the zither. It consists of an elongated rectangular wooden body, strung lengthwise with 7 to 13 silk strings. just about her size and strums it during the darker interludes. The group is Decadance-theatre, and they share a program with Victor Quijada's Rubberband Dance from Canada at "Fest Forward: Hip Hop hip-hop or hip hop n. 1. A popular urban youth culture, closely associated with rap music and with the style and fashions of African-American inner-city residents. 2. Rap music. adj. " at the Skirball Center in April. www.skirballcenter.nyu.edu. www.decadancetheatre.com. |
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