The revival of street dance in the United States in the 1990s was largely due to the popularity of street dance and hip-hop culture worldwide. New York hip-hop artists in the 1980s worked hard to promote the culture to the world, traveling across the U.S. with their hip-hop tours to France and the U.K. and, in 1984, to Japan. By the 1990s, hip-hop was growing rapidly around the world as a new and trendy form of culture and lifestyle, and in 1990 Germany hosted the first "Battle of the Year" street dance competition, which is now the most important annual street dance event in the world. With hard work, intelligence and creativity, Japanese youth quickly mastered and developed street dance. The achievements of Japanese street dancers were recognized by Americans, who spread the culture to neighboring regions such as Korea and Taiwan. Since the mid-1990s, street dance has been gradually spreading in mainland China, centering on the cities of Guangzhou, Shanghai and Beijing.
Why is street dance so popular? On the one hand, street dance is a folk dance born in the black ghetto of the United States, and the environment in which it was born is full of competition and confrontation. A poor, discriminated and forced by life, a black youth in order to survive, his dance is fighting for is bound to be different and outstanding. Thus, competitiveness becomes one of the innate characteristics of street dance. Black dance has the tradition of innate freedom, they do not have certain rules, anytime, anywhere, any movement can be danced. Black people's liberation of their own bodies has enabled them to accumulate a rich body language, and while we are still amazed and puzzled, they have already created a huge dance system - street dance. Therefore, free expression is another characteristic of street dance. Doo-wop is a form of street dancers competing with each other, and inside the doo-wop, people win the competition through innovative moves. For the dancers, the freer they think, the more creative they are, and the more creative they are, the more they can win the competition, and the characteristics of competition and freedom are united here. The characteristics of competition and freedom are united here. It is the spiritual connotation of street dance to promote individuality, express oneself, be brave to accept challenges, and create what others cannot. It is in line with the psychological and physiological characteristics of the youth group, so it is welcomed by young people all over the world.
On the other hand, as an important part of the hip-hop culture, street dance is popular among teenagers with the popularity of hip-hop all over the world. Afrika Bambaataa, the "godfather of hip-hop", said, "Hip-hop represents a whole culture; rap, MCs, DJs are all part of hip-hop culture, as are clothing and language. Breakdancing, b-boy, b-girl, the way you act, walk, look, talk, it's all hip-hop culture. And then there's the music, hip-hop music comes from all colors of people, no matter what kind of tone or rhythm, that's hip-hop." Therefore, hip-hop is not a simple combination of the four elements, but nearly 40 years of development has made it a popular lifestyle all over the world, and even a spiritual symbol, representing the concept of free expression, individuality, enjoyment of life, and the courage to challenge life. Exploding heads, fat pants, dance fights, tattoos, sneakers, club parties ...... these are among the specific manifestations, all these things organically combined together is a life. The life of hip-hop is active, and everyone who lives in it is constantly exploring and improving one or more of these skills in order to be heard or seen by more people, constantly breaking through the limitations of life, thus making the entire hip-hop culture more vibrant. On the other hand, if we look at ourselves, we can trace our roots back 20 years to the United States, almost all of our popular culture, in the face of a strong economy and emancipation of the ideological backing of the culture of hip-hop, the world's young people have no reason not to be attracted to it.
Street dance is a young folk dance with its own aesthetic. It is only by understanding it that we can realize its beauty and use it to make our lives more beautiful. Aerobics and street dance have essential differences: as a sport, aerobics is to shape the body for the purpose of beauty, in addition to the music does not have any inevitable connection, all of its action requirements in line with the body's natural movement form. In aerobics, all anti-joint movements are strictly prohibited; street dance is the art of dance, it does not have any "material" purpose, it is closely integrated with the music. Generally speaking, the movement of street dance is characterized by breaking through the limits of human body and creating what people can't. For traditional dances, the movements of street dance are very strange, many of them are unbelievable or against the human physiological movement patterns, such as the head turn in breakdancing and a lot of other anti-joint movements. Many people would consider this to be incongruous and have no way of determining what its aesthetic orientation is. However, street dancers express their individuality through such "incongruous" movements, conveying the message of "I can, you can't" and demonstrating their personal value. A single discordant movement becomes harmonious when it is connected by street dancers and smoothly expressed in the beat of the music. One of the rules for street dancers is to make as many incredible moves as possible, but in a way that feels very natural and not intentional. And while the new school of street dance has become soft and flexible due to the mixing of many traditional dance elements, the grasping and control of the various twists, contortions, and folds of the body is still the key to good street dance. Many of the movements of street dance come from imitation. Street dancers imitate nature, animals, and people's various social activities and working conditions, and even create an entire dance style. It is said that the lock dance was originally an imitation of the hand movements of the nunchaku routine in martial arts; the famous movement of Bugalo dance, "Old Man" (Old Man), is an imitation of the old man's walking form; the animation dance (Animation) is an imitation of the movements of animated characters; and the battle step is an imitation of the fight. ...... There is another kind of imitation which is the imitation of the dancer's own ideology. The best dancer dances with his thoughts, not with his movements, which fulfill an idea in his mind. That's the highest level of street dance, and the highest level of all dance.
From the United States to China, the development of street dance has had more than 30 years of ups and downs. Street dance in Japan has created time and again brilliant, so that the Americans impressed; street dance in South Korea has become a national sport, in the world to get back one after another champion, in China is also in the budding development. Youth culture is the most energetic and promising culture, and it is important to help develop its commercial value so that it can develop in the right direction and ultimately form a vibrant and healthy youth culture market, which will benefit all of us.