Modern Dance ParaPara Cherry Blossom Commentary

What exactly is ParaPara dance?

Saying 1:

A new dance step called "ParaPara" has been rapidly gaining popularity in various large and small dance halls in Japan in recent years, and "ParaPara" is the "exclusive culture" of the Japanese dance scene. "ParaPara" is the Japanese dance scene's "exclusive culture", this kind of dance step derived from continental dance music, the rhythm is "EoroBeat" beat, the action is nothing more than a circle in the air, cross your arms and other hand movement changes, some gestures seem to be like picking fruits, but it caused a big popularity in Japan. Popularity, "ParaPara" greatly popular, and the Japanese favor consistency is not unrelated, even South Korea have followed this trend, began production of "ParaPara" dance machine, the future of the new dance machine will increase around the side of the infrared around Scanners, not only feet to move, even hand movements have to match the rhythm of the dance, in order to get a high score, many people believe that in the new dance machine fueled by the "ParaPara" craze will continue unabated.

Saying two:

Recently, in Japan, the popularity of a unique dance steps, this unique dance steps across the Japanese high schools, universities and young men and women. People call this fusion of EUROBEAT steps ParaPara (BaraBara). There is no doubt that the ParaPara craze is unstoppable, and this popular dance step has sent the Japanese into a ParaPara frenzy, and the album "SUPEREUROBEAT" (or SEB for short), released by AvexGROUP, has become a must-have for all ParaPara dancers.

Saying 3:

According to Avex's book Beakfreak, during the second disco boom (DiscoBoom, 1985 onwards), the lyrics of the popular song "TakeOnMe" (featuring a-ha) reads, "Papaparappa, Papaparappa, Papaparappa, Papaparappa, Papaparappa, Papaparappa, Papaparappa, Papaparappa, Papaparappa...". Papaparappa, PappappaParara", the girls would do something special while the song was playing, and the disc jockeys at the time called these dance moves "ParaPara", and so the name was born! Later, in the idol program "Smap×Smap", Bakki Kimura (Kimura Takuya) danced ParaPara, and the name became popular.