What are all the street dance dance styles?

The categorization of street dance styles has long been a topic of much debate in the street dance community. In fact, the formation of street dance culture is only a few decades old, and is still evolving and redefining, so it is difficult to give a strict definition of street dance styles. The following is a general classification of the current styles of street dance, the five major styles of street dance are Hip-Hop, Jazz, Breaking, Popping, and Locking, which are currently the most popular in the street dance culture, and are also the regular competitions in the official street dance competitions.

This is the most diverse style of street dance, the most popular LA style and New style, in addition to Krump, Jazz, Reagge, House, C-walk, Shaking and other styles. Although these styles have their own significant characteristics, can be a category of its own, but because of the spread of these styles is relatively not popular enough, is in its infancy, the influence is still not compared to the four major categories mentioned above, so the dancers have these styles as well as the emerging variety of hiphop music to express the dance collectively referred to as Hip-Hop.

Jazz (jazz dance), that is, the American modern dance, is a kind of rapid and dynamic rhythmic dance, is a kind of outgoing dance, unlike the classical ballet or modern dance expressed a kind of introverted dance. Jazz dance was initially an extension of African dance, brought to Native America by black groups who were trafficked as slaves, and gradually evolved into a localized, popularized dance in the United States. Jazz dance is very suitable for girls to learn, sexy, soft, dynamic, body shaping hand selection.

Popping (mechanical dance), the word called up really popular, in fact, people most often see a similar robot dancing style is Popping inside the robot, is to imitate the robot's sense of control of limb movements at the same speed to move and frame. In addition to robot, the most common styles of popping are pop, wave, king tuts, and so on.

Locking (lock dance) can be said to be composed of lock and twist. Lock refers to all the movements that are suddenly fixed, such as the point that is commonly used by lockers; while twist refers to all the smooth movements outside the lock. With the development of Locking, twist from the initial just fast fling arm to now add a lot of hiphop dance steps, all kinds of styles of movement can become twist, as long as good and lock movement connection on the line.

Breaking-Breaking dancers are divided into B-boys and B-girls, which are divided into power moves and style moves according to their styles. power move is a very direct concept, that is, it is based on a big move, and all kinds of big moves and top rock, foot The concept of power move is very direct, that is, the big moves and top rock, foot work connected into a set of smooth action style; style move is more improvisational, in the connection of the action is more rich and varied and the action characteristics are relatively obvious, style move has many small branches of the style, such as drunk style, a kind of similar to drunken people come out of the dance, this style in China to get a very good development.