Everybody Dance Now!

From 1991, the video for C+C Music Factory's "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)" for which Jamale Graves won MTV's Best Choreography in a Video (followed by "Things That Make You Go Hmmm...").

• C+C Music Factory
• New Music

Back in the day, Jamale described hip-hop as:

The dance of young people. It's the dance of the street combined with some real serious roots of ethnic dance, combined with the movement of Katherine Dunham -- with a funky thing -- with the kids going on and what they feel -- along with rap music. Hip-hop!

Hip-hop includes many styles, of course, from breaking to popping, locking and krumping and house dance. What Jamale described above and used in his choreography for "Gonna Make You Sweat" is probably more hip-hop new style than anything else since almost all of the dancing is upright.

Here's how hip-hop new style is lookin' in this century -- some free styling @ Juste Debout 2005:

While I've got the 90s on my mind -- here's the video for MC Hammer's "U Can't Touch This". Spandex and parachute pants -- what would the 90s have been without 'em?! Break it down!: