Street dance (English name Hip Hop) first originated in New York, the United States, is the development of jazz dance to the 90's product, its action is by a variety of walking, running, jumping combination, very rich in change. And through the head, neck, shoulders, upper limbs, torso and other joints of flexion and extension, rotation, around the ring, swing vibration, wavy twisting and other coherent combinations, each action has its own specific fitness effect, not only pay attention to the upper limbs and the lower limbs, the abdomen and the back, the head and the coordination of the torso movements, but also pay attention to the composition of the links of each part of the independent movement. Therefore, street dance not only has a general aerobic exercise to improve cardiorespiratory function, reduce fat, enhance muscle elasticity, enhance ligament flexibility, but also has the coordination of all parts of the human body muscle groups, shaping a beautiful body, improve human coordination ability, cultivate the sense of beauty function.
Street dance tips
1. The music used in practicing street dance is very characteristic of Hip- Hop rhythm, so we should first familiarize ourselves with and adapt to the characteristics of the accompanying music before practicing. If you can step accurately and comfortably to the music as soon as you hear it, you can begin to learn street dance.
2. When practicing radio gymnastics or aerobics, the instructor's requirement for most of the movements is "horizontal and vertical", while street dance emphasizes more on randomness and requires loose movements, so you should relax your muscles and joints as much as possible when practicing, so that they can be more flexible.
Dance your own dance and let others talk
Turbans, big-brimmed hats, camouflage pants, Liu Hongzhou and his "disciples" all exude an avant-garde and rebellious personality. But in this era of learning first, such rebellion is for most teachers, parents are not to be disrespected. From the beginning of street dance to now, accustomed to the public performance of cool Liu Hongzhou at the same time also accustomed to a lot of such as "these kids are street children" gossip in their own ears and companions running. "We don't pay any attention to them," Liu Hongzhou said proudly, "we just do our own dance and let others talk."
Don't treat us like street kids
Yangjiaping's pedestrian plaza is where Liu Hongzhou, now a "successful" dancer, started dancing. Liu Hongzhou still remembers clearly the situation when he practiced handstand or spinning here. "When we first started dancing here, the people walking on the square looked at us with an unbelievable look. At that time, there was basically no street dancing in Chongqing, so when they saw a bunch of kids dressed in avant-garde clothes and behaving strangely making a scene here, they all thought it was very strange." For himself at the time, Liu Hongzhou was not the least bit secretive: "We knew that the eyes of many people at the time told me that they were merely treating us as street kids mingling in the streets."
The so-called street children, Chongqing people understand, and the Hong Kong movie "Koo Koo Chai" in the middle of those who do not do the work of the punks is almost the same. Such a title is undoubtedly an insult or even a blow to dancers who are passionate about street dance. Liu Hongzhou himself also saw, under the colored glasses, many of the year together with the dance companions are in the parents or friends of the "advice" to stop practicing. And out of the persistence of the dance, Liu Hongzhou and the rest of the people jumped to the end, from the pedestrian street jumped to the stage, from the "street child" into the Chongqing Municipal Street Dance Competition Champion. "Now you can see, street dance has jumped into the university campus known as the ivory tower, in Chongqing and even China, street dance has been recognized by most people." Liu Hongzhou said proudly, "So don't think of us as street kids."
Freshman girls who like street dance
Liu Hongzhou's students, like him, not only have avant-garde attire, but their behavior also reveals the lively character characteristic of fashionable young people. The two girls were very easy to talk to the reporter to a bunch of, on the body of the "children's clothing" make them look very youthful. "The first few?" The reporter asked. The two girls giggled after hearing, "We are already freshmen!"
He Yin is a freshman at Chongqing Normal University, who chose to major in fashion design and is naturally accustomed to being in touch with fashion, so she can come to this art and sports school in Yangjiaping to take three art and sports courses. One of them, street dance, is of course her self-confessed favorite. Talking about the good of street dance, He Yin began to say non-stop, "Street dance exercise is a different temperament, which is of course very important for us girls; our contemporary college students in addition to learning also need to have their own specialties, good street dance is also considered a skill; in addition, it is to enrich our campus life, so that our four years of college from the beginning of a rich and colorful life! ......" Of course, the choice of street dance, He Yin must also pass her mother that: "Mom is a traditional person, at first did not support me to dance this very avant-garde dance. Later watched one of my training class, also like this lively and healthy movement, and now every time the class went home she also asked me to jump to her see it."
From the Square to the Stage
The center square of Yangjiaping Pedestrian Street has a big electronic screen, and a wooden-floored platform of less than a hundred square meters underneath the screen looks very lively. A middle-aged couple in the corner to entertain themselves dancing cha-cha-cha, the platform in the center is a few teenage children in the practice of different difficulties in the street dance moves. Liu Hongzhou, who was walking beside the reporter, looked around and his eyes appeared friendly, "This is the earliest place to dance street dance in Chongqing, and the vast majority of Chongqing street dance performers nowadays have gone out from here."
Chongqing street dancers say, Yangjiaping pedestrian street of the piece of "stage" is their cradle. In front of the reporter, the group of small children also dressed in street dancers unique dress, listening to the people around them said, this group of children every night after eight o'clock on their own to gather here, rain or shine. Many of them do not know each other, but after coming here, the same kind of beat let them get along with each other very well. Liu Hongzhou said, this group of children also has their previous shadow, "only to start practicing street dance, Chongqing can not find a professional venue, only here to provide a free 'stage', so Chongqing at that time, like street dance children have come here spontaneously, from a few to dozens. " Now, at that time with Liu Hongzhou with the children practicing dance have all left from here, "some perform in the field, some in the gym as a coach, some also in the city and even domestic competitions won awards. After leaving from this 'stage', we all found the stage that really belongs to us."
Listening to Liu Hongzhou, it seems to be the bitter history of Chongqing street dance development. The kids who danced with Liu Hongzhou organized themselves together and created a street dance group called "EN". In their own practice more mature, they decided to dissolve to Chongqing around the development of new street dance enthusiasts, and agreed: when their own development of enthusiasts practiced to a certain extent, and then return to this former "stage" to dance friends. At the time of the EN combination of only six or seven people, before and after they developed more than 300 people to join this favorite hot beat group. Now, from this square "stage" out of Chongqing street dancers have been more than ten thousand, street dance combination has developed into a new five-color, EN, AZ and Pabulum four-pronged, as well as a number of small combinations of countless new situations. "The development of any new thing has its own process." Liu Hongzhou said, "From the square to the stage, Chongqing street dance has gone through a process of give and take."
Move! Play cool with Mr. Liu
A group of young people in avant-garde attire are dancing happily in the dance classroom of Zhongzheng Circle Point. The hot beats on the stereo are like drumbeats, and the bright and clear mirrors on the left and right make this dance space even more volatile. A young mother sat with a little girl of only a few years old, and the infectious energy of the music made the little girl's eyes widen and her mouth grin. "This is called street dance." The little girl's hand pointed, seriously to a reporter on the side of the "introduction" said.
The music and the dancing didn't stop at the arrival of the stranger. The faces reflected in the mirrors were youthful and full of vigor, and the young man who stood at the front, with his dashing and imaginative movements, was undoubtedly the focal point of the entire dance party. His name is Liu Hongzhou, is the street dance practice class instructor, when he came to the reporter's eyes, the reporter suddenly realized that the original small Liu teacher is only 20 years old. A bandana tied long hair, the top plus a dark military cap, coupled with a pair of camouflage pants, before the thin Liu Hongzhou, small eyes squinted up when there are a few minutes of Jay Chou's flavor. "I've been street dancing for three years." Liu Hongzhou spoke with little expression, "But I used to be a folk dancer."
Liu Hongzhou told reporters that after graduating from elementary school he entered the Chongqing Municipal School of Arts, majoring in traditional dance courses such as Folk Dance, Classical Body Rhythm and Modern Dance, and he has won prizes in the city's college student folk dance competitions. But it was only after coming into contact with the new thing called street dance that he really got hooked. "It was about three years ago when some of my friends brought back from Guangzhou the street dance they had newly learned over there, and at that time I was mesmerized by the novelty of the dance, and since then I have been learning to dance with them." Liu Hongzhou said, practicing folk dance dance background makes him more receptive and innovative than the average person when practicing street dance, practicing and practicing, he also began to take a disciple; until the first half of this year, he got his first special prize in the Chongqing Municipal Street Dance Competition.
A cool one-handed handstand made Liu Hongzhou around the "disciples" erupted into a scream and applause, the eyes of the girls is worship, the eyes of the boys is envy. Slightly smile on his face, Liu Hongzhou clapped his hands, "move together, in the music to find the feeling of dance, you can be as cool! In the music, the boys and girls were each intoxicated again.
Types of Street Dance
Hiphop
It is one of the most common dances that people come across, which has a wide range of simple steps that can show a complex sense of dance. It is very popular among the public because it is easy to learn and looks quite good when danced.
Poping
Mechanical dancing uses the muscles and joints of each part of the body to create amazing steps to the beat of the music, along with one's own rich imagination. It is a more difficult type of dance.
Breaking
Breakdancing
Breakdancing, also a more difficult type of dance, can be roughly divided into two types: using the hands, head and body on the ground to rotate, known as the big floor; with the limbs on the ground stepping on the ground to create a complex change of foot movements, coupled with tricky inverted, known as the small floor.
Free style
This is a kind of out-of-the-blue dance, which combines various types of dance together, and expresses itself as it pleases, without the limitation of dance style, and detached from the general norms of dance.
House
With the house music, the use of complex and magical pace performance of a dance step, it can be added to the Latin dance twist, martial arts flip, tap dance of the basic steps and the ballet circle, jumping up and down can be very elegant, but also can be quite wild.