In college, in the early 1990s, Calvario incorporated this uniquely American dance form into a Philippine culture show. He formed the dance company Kaba Modern and started a phenomenon where Asian American dance companies began emerging throughout universities in southern California.
“It quickly spread to the Chinese associations, the Japanese, Vietnamese...it was a really interesting time because within a year, it spread so fast,” he noted.
Lorenzo Perillo is teaching a class in hip hop dance at Cornell University this fall.
“It’s kind of like something that is seen as foreign to a particular culture and saying no, it’s not foreign, it’s actually something that we all do, we just don’t consider it; we just haven’t shifted our paradigm yet,” he said.
African American Dineytra Lee’s paradigm shifted when she auditioned for a hip hop dance crew.
“I go to the audition and I see nothing but Asians and I’m like, 'what’s going on there.' It’s literally a legitimate culture shock,” she said.
What Asian Americans saw in their community for years was not represented on television until recently with dance competition TV shows where predominantly Asian American urban dancers exploded into mainstream media.
“It was never so prominent as it is now. Now we’re all over," said Calvario. "And in these dance shows we did dominate.”
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