Young white dancer with her two black instructors handcuffed by Houston Police

[Glassunion]

20. Did you even read the article or watch the video?

Or did you just stop at the part: "white girl, two black instructors?"

They were going to take dance classes with industry professionals, not as you put it "taking her to a hiphop dance party".

What would you consider to be a "real" dance school?

Would it be one that instructs in the following: Jazz, Tap, Ballet, Tumbling, Gymnastics, Aerobatics, and HipHop?
Would it be one that has instructors that have choreographed Discoveryland!’s award-winning productions of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s OKLAHOMA, and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Who have coached several Broadway dancers? Those who have studied at The Broadway Dance Center, and Steps in New York City. Folks who are NCA Dance All-American nominees and a two time NCA Dance All-Americans? Those who have performed and choreographed Broadway shows?

'Cause that's the school that girl was enrolled in.

Let's take a peak at her instructor: He joined his first dance team when he was 15. He has traveled the country with different dance teams and became an official dance instructor at the age of 20, co-instructing Union High Schools Hip Hop team… sending them to receive 2nd runner up in Nationals for 2005-2006. He has also attended classes at the New York Broadway Dance Center in NY. Emmanuel has danced & work-shopped with dancers like Twitch from “So You Think You Can Dance” & Step Up 3, Tucker Barkley, Leslie Scott with Millennium Dance in L.A, Shane Sparks and more. He has done his own workshops with Pandora from Step Up 3, and world-wide known Di “Moon” Zhang from Marvelous Motion.

He sounds like a qualified professional to me.

Hiphop is dance. It is art. It takes a real athlete to perform it well. It is not an art that should be held lower than other forms of dance.