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Animation—features popping fundamentals called hard hits, stopping, and isolations with waving, gliding, and tutting. The resulting movement is not quite human, the idea is to look as if you’re a cyborg trying to look human. Animation can be performed to any music, but sparse, syncopated rhythmic patterns, with a heavy bass line is favored. Glitch, a dancer, says his mood determines his musical preference. When he wants to be expressive, he performs to slow music. Hip-hop helps him convey strength and power, and glitch-hop (a form of electronic music with deliberate malfunctions in the sound) is perfect for crisp, small movements. Dancer Chibi likes dubstep because it offers many sounds he can capture in movement. “It can be a simple ‘tick, tick, tick’ or a big move that emphasizes the sound,” he says. Animation is often associated with the musical style, dubstep, because it appeared on the commercial dance scene around the same time. Dubstep is a genre of electronic dance music related to reggae and to the growth of the Jamacian sound system party scene in the early 1980s, and to 1990s garage that originated in South London. Because of the simultaneity of their appearance on the scene, many people mistakenly call animation, dubstep dance. The Los Angeles crew Dragon House, led by Marquese Scott, a creator of brilliant animation dance videos, has been influential in spreading animation. Several members of Dragon House have appeared on the television show So You Think You Can Dance.
