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, which is highly performative, participatory and competitive.
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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The earliest exposure of Chinese youths to street dance began in the 1980s with the American movie Breaking Dance. At that time, Break Dance was the predecessor of Breaking. As Chinese teenagers gained a deeper understanding of street dance, they gradually returned to its roots and practiced it with their own vision and characteristics.
Besides the early days of breakdancing, young people all over China have been practicing street dance since the mid-1990s. In Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, street dance was practiced earlier because of developed information; in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, Breaking dance also started earlier because of the close relationship between the martial arts culture of the Central Plains and street dance.
After years of development, there are young people practicing street dance all over the country, and in the street squares of various cities, they can pile up the figure of training. They also often organize small competitions (Battle, ballast dance, spell dance), kung fu the best dancers can win the admiration of many teenagers street dance teaching video.
With the rise of national fitness activities, street dance as a kind of fitness movement has also entered the fitness centers of major cities. Many professional practitioners of dance, opera and acrobatics have also begun to practice street dance, which is widely spread in various art schools.
On university campuses, many dance clubs have also organized themselves to practice street dance; it is even more common for secondary school students to engage in street dance activities after school, and they have formed a community culture unique to young people in the residential communities of major cities.
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