Endangered Perspectives: Are European Dancers Better than US American Dancers At Battling?

[@warrend3159]

First, let's get the basketball thing out of the way. European basketball players are by no means better but are more foundational sound. The reason for this is the type of basketball that is promoted and taught through at youth level until the NBA. As for the dance. Most dancers in Europe are aware of the origins of dance styles. OG's from the States give workshops and panel talks, and do tell us where we can improve. Such as music, I believe here in Europe we listen to the same type of music while the hip-hop music in the states is diverse. One thing I didn't agree with was about dancing with subtle moves and it not being focused on in Europe. Fusion concept doesn't represent all of Europe when it comes to battling. Hype plays a huge role in that competition, and a lot of dancers in Europe don't do fusion concept anymore because of what it has become and the Judging not being clear. As for SDF Hip-hop 2024 was questionable, but can you really consider it an European thing when you have judges from outside of Europe and dancers from all over the world participating. The eventual winner of this year made sense. One thing I noticed is when I see hip-hop battles in the US, you guys allow a lot more types of dancers to participate in the battles. A Hip-hop battle will have turfers, Chicago footwork dancers, and even lite feet dancers. While in Europe, you'll never see that because the debate will be "Is it hip-hop ?"

[@dafirstfly]

Regarding your last question: YESS! Because we don’t have history and we are constantly reminded by US teachers and OGs. Hip hop has never been social to us. We don’t dance within our families, with our parents, with our elders. We do not live it naturally. So we are obsessed by tags and definitions (EU dancers). Also, we are SO dominant-thinkers that we made ABC style more important than XYZ… We scrub “minority” dancers like krumpers, turfers, hustlers, lite feet dancers, etc

[@marieb3952]

Actually, should there really be a debate about who are the best ?