Krump

The Krump is a form of Danse born in the Années 1990 in the middle of the low districts of Los Angeles. This dance, non-violent in spite of its aggressive appearances, also wants to be a tolerant dance where men, women, obese and children are considered on an equal footing, of opposite course to the universe sexist and violent one of the Hip-hop known as Gangsta .

Origin

Marked by the wars of gangs, the drug trafficking, the muscular interpellations of the police force and the racial riots of 1992, Thomas Johnson decides to create the character of Tommy the Clown to animate goûters of birthdays in the ghettos. He invents on this occasion a new dance quickly imitated by the children of the districts: the clown dance hall . While growing, some of them develop this new form of expression by creating the K.R.U.M.P.: Kingdom Radically Uplifted Mighty Praise , seemingly more " sauvage" and brutal that the clown dance hall .

For the three creators of this dance, Tight Eyez, Big Mijo and Jay Smooth, this dance is a gift of God and its practice makes it possible to thank it.

An art with whole share

The Krump is Article Danse modern and urban, it is different from the other forms of dance by its spiritual and ritual aspect: to say krumper , it is initially necessary to include/understand the Krump . Initially, it is necessary to have the heart of the Krump : many stereotypes make Krump a wild and barbarian dance expressing only rage. However, the heart of the Krump consists in expressing love and sharing its love of life. The krumper must initially assimilate that before being seen teaching this Article.

Curiously, the Krump finds an echo in the African tribal dances, although its creators were not of it aware at the time of its creation.

Krump impresses by its movements accrobatic, the bodies is contorsionnent, trembles, and even vibrates on a powerful, fast and jerked rate/rhythm, to arrive in states close to fright. Krump gives place to incredible choreographies and fascinate the public.

Created by an former prisoner, in reaction to the racial riots of 1992, this dance has a positive vocation, since she proposes to the young people disadvantaged districts to be differently expressed than by the violence of the gangs. Indeed, of the tournaments are thus organized in an festive atmosphere, which releases force, beauty and sensuality, and where only reign the love of each one for its Article Each one is evaluated according to the other, defies the other as in a combat without blows, wound, without pain, only by the means of the control of its own body through Krump. This rather atypical dance is a form of solution to limit the conflicts between the young people and to make unify the districts in tension.

This dance of the ghetto, diving in the middle of the black districts of Los Angeles, which takes as a starting point others is an real alternative with violence.

Cinematography

After being appeared in the clips of Christina Aguilera or Prodigy, the Krump reaches notoriety in 2005, thanks to documentary the Rize of the clippeur-photographer David LaChapelle, who presented his film to Deauville with a great success. The documentary one follows the life of the creator of the Clown-Dance hall , known as Clowning : Tommy the Clown, and retranscribed the boosted environment of the tournament where the dancers clash.

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