In terms of movement forms, there are two main categories of street dancers: Dancer and Bboy (BGIRL).
In terms of performance forms, there are two main categories of street dancers: individual skill street dancers and group street dancers.
Common Types
1. Locking (Locking Dance) originated in the 1960s and was invented by The Lockers, a team led by Don Cambell, and is the earliest form of street dance to take shape. It is characterized by the rapid rotation and pointing of the wrist and arm, and the sudden stopping of movement, accompanied by various techniques such as hand clapping, jumping and splitting.
2. Popping (vibration dance) originated in the early 70's molding in the mid to late 70's, in different forms emerged on the west coast of the United States in San Francisco, California, Fresno, Oakland, etc., is one of the styles of Funk and Street Dance, the initial basic form of the contraction of the muscles in various parts of the body quickly with the relaxation of the skills of dancers, is a vibration feeling. body to produce the feeling of vibration.
3. Breaking (breakdancing) originated in the 70s and molded in the 80s in the Bronx, New York City, the United States, is a more difficult type of street dance, pay more attention to the combination of dance steps and skills, divided into TopRock, Footwork, Freeze, Powermove four major content.
4. Hip-Hop (Hip-Hop Dance) originated in the late 80s and early 90s, is the second Hiphop dance after Breaking, is now a widely popular type of street dance, Hip-Hop Dance the very beginning of the original meaning of the B-Boy, and only later did some people dance with the song sung by the MC, so that jumping Hip-Hop is in fact a later statement, B-Boy is the Hip-Hop dance. Boy is the origin of Hip-Hop.
5. House molding in the 80s to 90s, widely absorbed Breaking, Hiphop, Salsa, Tap, Ballet and so on a variety of different dance elements, the formation of a wealth of fast footwork changes to the performance of the House dance dance dance types, divided into Jacking, Footwork and Lofting three categories The content of the dance is divided into three categories: Jacking, Footwork and Lofting.
6. Reggae, Dancehall (reggae) This dance originated in Jamaica, and with the spread and development of reggae music in France and the United States began to enter the popular culture and the public eye, the action is passionate and wild, with a lot of sexually suggestive action content.
7. Clown, Krump (clown dance) in the early 1990s by Tommy The Clown invented to clowns dressed to dance, style similar to Hiphop, but wild and exaggerated more. His disciples Lil C, Tight Eyez and others left the team and set up their own business, changing the Clown dance a lot and calling it Krump, which means Kingdom Radically Uplifted Mighty Praise and is interpreted as a kind of dance praising God that gives vent to and sublimates the inner negative emotions through intense movements.
8. Waacking, Punking, Voguing (dumping dance) molding in the 70s, originally the United States West Coast underground Gay bar cross-dressing gay stage dance, to a large number of arm spinning and waving and sultry Pose, walk to express the Disco and funk music. Waacking, and Voguing is a form of Waacking on the east coast of the U.S. that is expressed in House music and specifically highlights the model's sense of Pose.
9. Turfing appeared in the west coast of the United States, with the arm in the shoulder and other joints for inhuman twist (Bonebreak) as the main feature, a large number of combination of Popping and the related Robot, Wave, Kingtut, Slide, Slowmotion and other styles and techniques, as well as ballet, Breaking and other dances of body rotation and flip, the formation of 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 were crowned Street Jazz, Jazz Funk, Jazz Funk, Jazz Funk, Jazz Funk, Jazz Funk, Jazz Funk, Jazz Funk, Jazz Funk, and so on. Contemporary Jazz as one of the street dance genres has been called Street Jazz, Jazz Funk, La Style, La Style Hiphop, Urban Dance and so on by different Jazz choreographers over time.
Expanded information:
Street dance originated in the United States at the end of the 1960s, and in the 1970s it was categorized as a part of the hip-hop culture, and is known as one of the four elements of hip-hop, along with graffiti, beatboxing and rap. the four major elements of hip-hop. Street dance is highly performative, participatory and competitive. Dancing in the street makes people concentrated and interested, with beautiful and casual movements, which can develop a person's willpower, as well as stimulate the brain's imagination and allow creativity to play to the extreme.
The earliest street dance is related to the hip-hop and rap music in the black area of New York. Street dancers often use their limbs to make some drastic movements when they sing, and these movements gradually spread out and form some agreed-upon stereotypes. These movements then evolved into the original street dance, breakdancing. One view is that breaking came from the fact that singers always performed during pauses in the song. After this, slide and trivia were gradually added to the original street dance style. The street dance styles of this period are known as the old academy, and they required a relatively high level of skill.
After the 1990s, a new type of dance developed: hip-hop, which is smaller in amplitude and more focused on matching the rhythm of the music than the original street dance. However, this dance is also more or less mixed with some trivial dance, machine dance, with its development and gradually split out of the current and other new styles.
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