How did street dance come about? Please help!
Dance is a kind of folk dance, emerged in the 1980s in the United States black teenagers, is the United States black "hip-hop culture" (Hip-Hop) part. Because this dance appears in the street, not confined to the venue equipment, so called street dance, and has a strong participation, performance and competition. In the gradual development, the street dance youth formed a **** the same idea and behavior, they use street dance to promote their own personality, show youthful vitality and passion, express the courage to forge ahead in life attitude, they emphasize is "do yourself, enjoy life, the courage to challenge" concept. ~The development of street dance in Japan and Korea With the popularization of hip-hop culture in the world, street dance has spread rapidly throughout the world. Street dance was introduced to Japan at the time of its formation, and then to Korea. The Japanese created and developed many new forms of street dance, focusing more on the dance aspect of it. The Koreans integrated street dance into their own understanding, creating a very national characteristics of the hip-hop variant of the culture: youthful and beautiful song and dance combinations, melodious and fast-paced music, simple and neat dance, gorgeous and exaggerated modeling ...... This culture has been popular in China since 1997, and is known as the "Korean Wave. This culture has been popular in China since 1997 and is known as the "Korean Wave". Japan and South Korea this hip-hop variant of culture to form a strong cultural influence on other Asian countries. ~Types of Street Dance In terms of movement as a standard, street dance is divided into two categories: Hip-Hop and Breaking. Breaking: skill-based street dance, requiring dancers to have a high degree of strength, flexibility and coordination, belonging to the higher skill sports dance, so the first for the domestic teenagers to love. Teenagers who dance this type of dance are called B-Boy/B-Girl. In the 1980s, DJ Kool Herc, who is known as the "Father of Hip-Hop", created the concept of B-Boy, also known as Breaking Boy. Every year, there are competitions for B-Boys in many countries around the world, the most famous being the annual BOTY (B-Boy of The Year) and the B-Boy Champion in the UK, where 100s of contestants from more than 10 countries take part in such events. The winners of these competitions quickly gain notoriety and become teenage stars. Hip-Hop: Dance-based street dance with a variety of styles such as Poping, Locking, Electric, Turbo, and House. None of them require as high a level of skill as Breaking, but they require more coordination of movement and dance sense, as well as physical flexibility and control. Good Hip-Hop Dancers also need hard practice. Because Hip-Hop Dance is not as skillful as Breaking and lacks competitiveness, it has not been given enough attention by street dance enthusiasts in the past, but now with the enhancement of the concept of dance, this situation has been changed, and even B-Boys have begun to practise it and many all-around good street dancers have appeared. ~The evolution of street dance Taking the characteristics of the era as a criterion, street dance can be divided into two categories: Old School and New School, the former being the street dance style of the 1980s, and the latter being produced in the 1990s, with considerable changes in both music and movements. Old School Old School music has a very fast beat to match the Breaking moves, and with the evolution of Hip-Hop music, the tempo of Hip-Hop has slowed down, and the Breaking moves are not suitable. Because if in this kind of slow Hip-Hop music in the windmill or row leg (Footwork) and other movements, will feel a little explosive power is not, and even lose its sense of dance. At this point, Old School and New School started to separate, around 1986. In the early days, New School's dance steps were very simple, such as the familiar "Running Man" which can be seen in the music videos of MC Hammer and Babby Brown, and this kind of powerful hip-hop dance is also known as Funky Dance. However, the street dance popularized by MC Hammer and Babby Brown has gradually turned into Old School. The emergence of New School In early 1992, a black dance group called Mop Top (Elite Force) (consisting of Henry Link, Loose Joint, Buddha Stretch) started to perform in the early 1990s, Buddha Stretch), developed a new style of Hip-Hop, an "indigenous Hip-Hop". It is not like MC Hammer and Babby Brown period of big movements, wide range of movement, not to mention those in breakdancing in a similar gymnastics movements. Its unique style focuses on the coordination of the body (what we call rhythm), emphasizes the rhythm of the upper body and adds a lot of hand movements, unlike the old style of Hip-Hop that emphasized wide range of movement and footwork. Later, Michael Jackson's Remember The Time was released. Jackson's Remember The Time MTV utilized Henry's new style of dance, which immediately started a trend. Later, Malia Kelly's Dreamlover song MTV used a richer New School dance, these dances are mixed with Locking (lock dance), Poping (machine dance), Wave (current) these things. It was hard to tell what kind of dance it was, but it was an important part of the history of New School Hip-Hop, and it was the beginning of the worldwide popularity of New School. New School's Mature Stage New School Hip-Hop is a mix of different types of dances expressed in a fast and slow Hip-Hop or R&B song. This was the early stage of New School, Henry and others simplified many of the Locking moves and used standard Hip-Hop rhythms to express Poping and Locking, and also added Wave in the dance from time to time, in short, interpreting the old dance steps with a new feeling. Later, Henry worked as a choreographer for Malia Kelly's song Fantasy and later Honey, and Hip-Hop started to mature in the song Creep by the popular girl Hip-Hop group TLC and the MTV of the movie "MIB". New School Hip-Hop Dance Now When this New School Hip-Hop became popular in Japan, the Japanese developed their own style of dance, New School Hip-Hop, using Old School music, New School started out as a new style of music to express the old style of dance. New School started out as a new style of dance with new music, but now they are interpreting the old style of dance with the new. In terms of movement, the recent New School Hip-Hop has more variations, more body twisting and contortions, and less and less regularity in the dance. ~Street Dance in China The earliest contact of Chinese teenagers with street dance began in the 1980s with the American movie "Break Dance", when Break Dance was the predecessor of the current Breaking. As Chinese teenagers' understanding of street dance deepens, they gradually return to the origin of street dance, practicing it with their own vision and characteristics. In addition to the early breakdancing, young people all over China have been practicing street dance since the mid-1990s. Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, because of the developed information, street dance was carried out earlier; Zhengzhou, Henan Province, because of the close relationship between martial arts culture and street dance in the Central Plains, Breaking dance also started earlier. Nowadays, 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/scramble dance), and the best dancers can win the admiration of many teenagers. The youth's passion for street dance has led to its use in everything from art and culture to commercials. We can see that in the music videos of many famous artists, such as Jay Chou, Chen Xiaochun, XIAO Yaxuan, Wen Lan, street dance teenagers appear frequently, and the commercial advertisements of brands such as Nike, Li Ning, Season 5, Huiyuan, Jinti, Nokia and so on use the street dance modeling and frequently bombard the vision of young consumers. In the dance drama "Notre Dame de Paris" staged at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in early 2003, a large number of street dance moves were used, forming a unique cultural landscape. With the rise of national fitness activities, street dance as a kind of fitness exercise has also entered the fitness centers of major cities. Many professional practitioners of dance, opera and acrobatics have also begun to practice street dance, and street dance is widely spread in various art schools. On university campuses, many dance clubs have also organized themselves to practice street dance; it is 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. A few years ago, CCTV's 5-set sports channel opened a street dance teaching program (although the teaching was not pure street dance), and 3-set Dance World broadcast a special program on street dance before the Spring Festival in 2003, which was filmed by BeiDaTang. As a kind of cultural and sports activities loved by young people, street dance has been widely spread throughout the country.