When set this project, my first thoughts were of the genre(s) of music that I was going to create my dance move for, and was decided that I wanted my new hairstyle to represent this music style also. After doing some research into different types of dance that relate to which music genres, etc break dancing for hip hop and skanking for dancehall, and while conducting my initial research I was interested in the various hybrids and crossover styles of music, in which two or more genres merge together to form a separate fusion genre. There are obvious examples of this; rnb stemming from the fusion of rhythm and blues music, and folk rock being the crossover of folk and rock, there are also many sub genres and innovative takes on music styles that would not have been possible if not for taking aspects, styles and sounds from multiple genres. This gave me the idea to make up a dance move for one of these fusion genres that just directly crosses the two main styles of dance that relate to the 2 genres, so I knew that it was important to choose two dances that could actually be put together and not be too complicated, this would also mean that the two genres had to have the same rhythm and timing.
Saturday 4 January 2014
Friday 3 January 2014
This is the hairstyle that i have designed to coincide with the dance move that crosses Reggae and Hip-Hop genre styles, The dreadlocks are a signature part of not only Reggae music but Jamaican culture in general and and the image of the swaying locks while dancing encapsulate the easy going care free nature of the pioneers of Reggae such as Bob Marley and Robbie Shakespeare. The second component is the two bunches of dreads at the top, this comes from one of the most iconic hairstyles of the golden era of hip hip (late 80's early 90's) which was that of Busta Rhymes who is considered one of the best lyricists ever to live, this hairstyles merges perfectly with the dreadlocks as his original style was mostly shaved around the back and sides with some loose, messy dreads that he would bring up into one or two bunches (below).
Kiss Me Quick
Project 2 asked me to create 16 calling cards that sum up my personal experience of the city of London. I went about this buy taking 3 trips out into London, one to a place that i had visited many times before moving here and spend a lot of time with my brother in, Brick lane and Shoreditch, on this trip i took photos and tried to capture the essence of the area as best i could with the graffiti, shop fronts and raw creative intimacy that is shared by the people who live there. The second trip i took the tubes and busses to stops and areas that i had never been to before and tried to take in as much as i possibly could, gaining a feel of the architecture and atmosphere of various different parts; and the 3rd was a similar trip but i tried to use my eyes to really pick things up and also try and imagine that i had never been to London and what my initial thoughts and feeling would have been. The actual calling cards that i created are all in varying styles and categories as i felt that this displays the diversity that there is here in London.
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