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Untitled[edit]

I removed the notice to delete this article. House dancing is an important underground movement with a wide audience, primarily among young people in the inner city. It is connected with at least a few marginalized groups, African Americans and gay people, and as such does not receive much publicity. I did, however, provide more documentation and external links that I believe prove its notability.

House dance is connected with gay people? Now this is biased and, by the way, completely wrong. but unless you don't write this into the article, I will do you no harm. 80.120.199.87 21:15, 12 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Minor Fixes[edit]

I made a few grammatical corrections. Proper names capitalized, etc. It's just the teacher in me.

-Lanceroo 21:09, 24 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

History[edit]

What is the basis for the assertion that House dance is "a lot older than House music"? There is no qualifying information provided and no reference. AFAIK they emerged simultaneous from the same cultural movement -- which explains their common underlying philosophy (i.e. the non-isochronous metrical foundation). Andyschm 06:22, 22 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

contemporary house dance[edit]

it should be noticed that housedance spread to east asia and later europe where it is as well as in the US still alive and evolving —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fabianooo (talk • contribs) 17:24, 28 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Confusing words between vernacular and the hip hop dance[edit]

It appears the article says that the article is not related to Hip Hop culture, which it isn't, directly, historically, as cited.
However, the article disputes that 'house dance' did not come from the streets, this may imply to the reader it is not a vernacular dance, 'vernacular dances' are often called 'street dances', in the sense that such dances evolved outside studios.
Below there is commentary from a third person:
"Before there were many 'disco' clubs, also known as 'houses'. Vernacular dances are practiced in and out of nightclubs, and improved on (usually socially), as cited in the Vernacular dance article. Vernacular dances were dubbed as 'street dances' for their practice in the streets (especially before dances at actual parties), the term 'house dance' was in no doubt a play on words between 'street dance' and 'house', replacing 'street' with 'house', since the subjected dance styles were danced indoors within nightclubs to disco or house music rather than in dance halls or outside to funk, jazz or hip hop music, etc.
It just appears to me the parent article says it is a street dance, yet, this article says it is not - perhaps the writer confused 'hip hop dance' with 'street dance'? Both hip hop and house/disco dance styles were descended from funk, along with their corresponding musical genres." FireWolf Flux (talk) 19:44, 2 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The term Street Dance (Funk Styles and Hip Hop) refers to dances born in the streets in the streets and culturally practiced and performed in the streets. House Dance was born in nightclubs and culturally not practiced or performed in the streets. This means House Dance can not be grouped with Street Dances. House Dance can be under Vernacular Dances. But then the definition of Street Dance needs to omit "Street dance, also called vernacular dance" as Street Dances is under Vernacular Dances. Bambooman (talk) 12:53, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]