Liquid dancing

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Liquid dancing (or liquiding) is a form of gestural, interpretive dance that sometimes involves pantomime. The term invokes the word liquid to describe the fluid-like motion of the dancer's body and appendages. It is primarily the dancer's arms and hands which are the focus, though more advanced dancers work in a full range of body movements. Liquid dancing has many moves in common with popping, born out of 80s b-boy and funk style dance movements.

1 Origins
2 Gear
3 External links
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4 See also

[edit] Origins

The root origin of liquiding is a point of contention between those who practice liquid dancing. Some argue that it is a unique dance indigenous to rave culture and started in the early 1990s in conjunction with the rave movement. While rave later stagnated, liquid dancing has become a standing part of club- and street dancing.

B-boys and funk stylists generally contend that liquid dancing is a development of waving, a technique in popping. Liquid dancing covers many of the same fundamentals as popping and it is fully possible (and common) for dancers to combine the styles, further blurring the distinction between the two. The defining difference is liquid dancing concentrating on smooth movements while popping is characterized by pops (hits) and contractions. The dancer known as Tiny Love specializes in this form of dance. This difference in focus is what makes liquiding better suited for fast-paced trance music and popping for the more distinct rhythms of, for example, electrofunk.

[edit] Gear

Some liquid practitioners commonly accentuate their dance with light emitting gear. Typically the gear will consist of either glowsticks or very bright LED keychain lights called photons. When a dancer specializes in glowsticks, the dance often ceases to resemble liquid and is then referred to as glowsticking.