1. Locking (locking dance)
Originated in the 60s and invented by The Lockers team led by Don Cambell, Locking is the earliest street dance to take shape. It is characterized by the rapid rotation and pointing of the wrist and arm, and the sudden stopping of movements, accompanied by various techniques such as hand clapping, jumping and splitting.
2. Popping (Shock Dance)
Originated in the early 70's and molded in the mid to late 70's, it emerged in different forms in the west coast of the United States in San Francisco, California, Fresno, Oakland, etc. It is one of the styles of Funk and Street Dance, and the basic form of the initial contraction and relaxation of the muscles of various parts of the body is produced by the dancer's body. technique, is the dancer's body to produce the feeling of vibration.
3. Breaking (Breakdance)
Originated in the 70s and molded in the 80s in the Bronx, New York City, USA, it is a kind of more difficult Street Dance, which pays more attention to the combination of dance steps and skills, and is divided into four major elements: TopRock, Footwork, Freeze and Powermove.
4. Hip-Hop (Hip Hop)
Originated in the late 80's and early 90's, it is the second type of Hiphop dance after Breaking, and it is the type of street dance that is widely popular nowadays. Hip-Hop originally meant B-Boy at the very beginning, and it was only later that some people used the songs sung by the MCs to dance, so that jumping Hip-Hop is in fact a kind of later statement, B-Boy is the origin of Hip-Hop.
5. House
House
was formed in the 80's and 90's, and widely absorbed Breaking, Hiphop, Salsa, Tap, Ballet and so on various different dance elements, forming a rich and fast footwork to express the House dance dance music, divided into three categories of Jacking, Footwork and Lofting. Lofting three major categories of content.
6. Reggae, Dancehall (reggae)
This dance originated in Jamaica, and with the spread of reggae music in France and the United States and the development of pop culture and the public began to come into the field of vision, the action of the passionate and wild, with a lot of sexually suggestive action content.
7. Clown, Krump (clown dance)
Invented by Tommy The Clown in the early 90s, the clown dress up to dance, style similar to Hiphop, but wild and exaggerated. His disciples Lil C, Tight Eyez, and others broke away from the group and went their own way, changing the Clown dance extensively and calling it Krump, which means Kingdom Radically Uplifted Mighty Praise and is interpreted as a dance that praises God by venting and sublimating inner negativity through intense movements.
8. Waacking, Punking, Voguing (Dumping)
Molded in the 70's, it was originally a stage dance for cross-dressing gay men in the West Coast's underground Gay bar, with a lot of rotating arm waving and flirty poses and walks to express the Disco and Funk music. Punking originally referred to Waacking performed by Locking dancers, and Voguing is a form of Waacking performed to House music on the East Coast of the United States and specifically highlighting the model's sense of Pose.
9. Turfing
Occurring on the west coast of the United States, it is characterized by the inhuman twisting (Bonebreak) of the arm at the shoulder and other joints, and combines a great deal of Popping and related styles and techniques such as Robot, Wave, Kingtut, Slide, Slowmotion and the body of dances such as Ballet and Breaking, as well as the body of ballet. and Breaking and other dances of body rotation and flip, formed a bizarre and exaggerated emerging street dance dance.
10. JAZZ (Jazz)
Jazz is a kind of rapid and dynamic rhythmic dance, is a kind of outgoing dance, unlike the classical ballet or modern dance performance of a kind of introverted dance. contemporary Jazz as one of the street dance, with the migration of time, but also in the mouth of different Jazz choreographers have been named Street Jazz, Jazz Funk, Street Jazz, Jazz Funk. Street Jazz, Jazz Funk, La Style, La Style Hiphop, Urban Dance, and so on.
Expanded InformationOrigin of Street Dance
Street Dance (Street Dance or Street dancing) was born in the late 1960s as a dance of the black urban poor in the United States, and in the 1970s it was categorized as a part of Hip-Hop Culture, with strong performances, participations and competitions.
In the early 1992s, an "in situ hip-hop" emerged, which did not have the drastic movements and footwork of breakdancing, or the gymnastic movements on the floor. Its unique style is to focus on the coordination of the body, the importance of the body's upper body rhythms and add a lot of head, hand movements. We can see this new style of dance in the MTV of Mike Jackson, Mariah Carey and the Backstreet Boys.
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