HIPHOP includes street dance, the four pillars of HIPHOP are DJ, Rap, graffiti and street dance.
Street dance is further divided into various types according to styles, Breaking (Breakdance), Poppin (Shock Dance), Locking (Locking Dance), Hiphop (Hip-Hop Dance), Jazz (Jazz Dance), Raggae (Reggae Dance).
Expanded Information:
Historical Reason
Street DanceStreet Dance originated in the United States in the 1960s, and is a collective term for a number of different kinds of dances based on different street cultures or styles of music, the earliest type of street dance being Locking.
Street Dance is a combination of walking, running, jumping, and through the head, neck, shoulders, upper limbs, torso and other joints of the flexion and extension, rotation, around the ring, pendulum vibration, wavy twisting and other coherent combination of each action has its specific fitness effect, not only pay attention to the upper limbs and the lower limbs, the abdomen and the back, the head and the torso coordination of the action, and pay attention to the composition of each segment of the independent movement. Each part of the independent movement.
In the 1980s, street dance was introduced to China and gradually spread as a fitness activity.
Style Division
Breaking (breakdancing): is a difficult dance step, can be roughly divided into two types: with hands, head and body on the ground rotation, called the big floor; with limbs on the ground to step out of the complex changes in foot movements, coupled with tricky inverted, called the small floor. Of course, feel free to go with the moves you want to show while dancing.
Freestyle: This is a kind of out-of-the-blue dance, which mixes various types of dance together and expresses itself as it pleases, without any limitation of dance style and out of the norms of general dance, so it can be said to be a kind of personalized street dance.
Poppin (vibration dance): Using the muscles and joints of all parts of the body, with the beat of the music, together with one's own rich imagination, to create surprising dance steps. It is a more difficult type of street dance.
Locking: Bigger movement of the arms and upper body and smaller movement of the hips and legs.
Hiphop (Hip Hop): The most common type of dance, it has large and simple steps, and is able to show a complex sense of dance. Because it is easy to learn and look good, it is very popular among the public.
House: With the house music, the use of complex and magical steps to show a kind of dance, it can be added to the Latin dance twists, martial arts flips, tap dance of the basic steps and ballet circles, jumping up and down can be very elegant, but also can be quite wild.
Jazz: The essence of jazz dance movement is a free and pure expression, directly to the inner feelings of the body with the upside down, shaking, twisting expression. Just like when we hear our favorite music, we can naturally express our feelings from the inside, and our body will involuntarily move with the rhythm of the music, such as snapping our fingers, swinging our head and feet, sometimes excitedly and fiercely, sometimes slowly and softly, dissolving into the music.
Raggae (reggae): reggae has a lot of crotch twisting action, and there is also a wave on the body, and poppin small and fine wave is not the same, reggae's big and wild.
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