Hip Hop Handbook

Age Range: K-12

The kids and teachers loved this show! It was music and dance the students could relate to and the teachers loved that the students got to learn about the background of Hip Hop. They loved the interaction with the two performers! Cannot say enough good things!!! Would highly recommend this show to anyone!!!
Karen Golembieski
New Monmouth Elementary School in Middletown, New Jersey

The "HipHop Handbook" package provides students of all ages with the opportunity to experience and enjoy various forms of urban music and dance expression in a safe, respectful, and positive format. While each presentation is unique, the overall theme of each session is the promotion of literacy and creative expression through the musical, kinesthetic and visual arts. Each workshop encompasses one or more of the many elements of HipHop. Various packages are available and can be combined and customized based on the school curriculum and needs.

HipHop Showcase
Grade Level: K-12
Interactivity Level: Low
Overview: Custom tailored for various age groups, the musical showcase is well suited for large assemblies. The performance includes a call-and-response musical rap performance, a DJ turntable scratch demonstration, vocal percussion, and break dance routines. Volunteers may be selected from the audience to help demonstrate some of the DJ scratches and basic break dance moves. For older students, we also offer a historical overview of the HipHop culture, where students will learn the socio-economic conditions that forged the music we now know as HipHop.

Gym Class Breakdance Lesson
Grade Level: K-12
Interactivity Level: High
Overview: As a special gym class lesson, you can have trained professionals with years of dance experience teach your students basic, low-risk dance moves (don't worry - no headspins), as part of a dance routine that can be learned in a single class session.

Music Class Hip-Hop Workshop
Grade Level: K-12
Interactivity Level: Moderate
Overview: Students are given a brief history of HipHop music, and instructed in the arts of creative lyric writing, vocal percussion, and turntablism. Students will have a chance to experiment with the DJ equipment, and there will be a lyrical freestyle improvisational rap session at the end where students will have an opportunity to share their rhymes with the other students.

Art Class Tutorial
Grade Level: 9-12
Interactivity Level: High
Overview: This package explores the visual arts aspect of HipHop in the form of unique lettering styles and character drawings. The tutorial begins with a brief history of HipHop art, and ends with an instructional session in which students can make their own mini-murals using the stylized letters of their own names.

Testimonials

The show was excellent. The guys were very personable and entertaining. The teachers especially loved the show! They all commented on how Justin and his partners took a seemingly controversial subject and presented it in such a positive and educational light. The students, also, enjoyed the program. It was so different from other assemblies that we have had at school.
Antoinette Talovich, Holy Family School
Grand Blanc, MI
Posted: 2008-05-07

Have you ever wondered how Hip Hop music got started? Students learned how the modern the signature sound of the Hip Hop music genre evolved. With its roots firmly planted in Disco music of the 1970’s, Hip Hop has become a mainstream music genre and a multi-billion dollar industry. Students thoroughly enjoyed the performance by Hip Hop Handbook, and had opportunity to participate!
PTA
Fruitland Schools
Posted: 2008-03-15

We enjoyed the Hip Hop Assembly in which our students learned about the history of Hip Hop, how music, math and literacy work together as well as some unbelievable dance moves! Everyone thought it was a huge hit!
PTA
French Valley Elementary
Posted: 2008-03-14

The children absolutely adored it. It was very interactive and showed how the culture of music spans all groups.
Marjorie Stevens
Principal, Whiting School
Posted: 2008-03-14