Hip Hop (English name) originated in new york, USA, and was the product of jazz dance in 1990s. Its movements are various combinations of walking, running and jumping, which are varied. It is made up of joints such as head, neck, shoulders, upper limbs and trunk through flexion and extension, rotation, rotation, sparkling and wave-like twisting. Every movement has its specific fitness effect, which not only pays attention to the coordination between upper and lower limbs, abdomen and back, head and trunk, but also pays attention to the independent movement of each part. Therefore, street dance not only has the functions of improving heart and lung function, reducing fat, enhancing muscle elasticity and enhancing ligament flexibility, but also has the functions of coordinating muscle groups in various parts of the human body, shaping beautiful posture, improving human coordination ability and cultivating aesthetic feeling.
Tips for getting started in street dance
1. The music used to practice hip-hop is very distinctive, so everyone should be familiar with and adapt to the characteristics of accompaniment music before practicing. If, as soon as you hear the music, you can step on the steps accurately and freely and keep up with the rhythm of the music, then you can start learning street dance.
2. When practicing radio exercises and aerobics, perhaps the coach's requirement for most movements is "horizontal and vertical", while street dance emphasizes randomness and requires relaxation, so you should relax your muscles and joints as much as possible to make them more flexible.
Jump by yourself and let others talk.
The headscarf, hat and camouflage trousers all reveal the avant-garde and rebellious personality of Liu Hongzhou and his "disciples". However, in this era of learning first, such treason is despised by most teachers and parents. Liu Hongzhou, who has been used to playing cool in public since she started to dance street dance, is also used to a lot of gossip such as "These children are street children" wandering in her and her companions' ears. "We won't talk to them," Liu Hongzhou said proudly. "Dance your own dance and let others talk."
Don't treat us like vagrants.
The pedestrian street in Yangjiaping is also the place where the current "winner" Liu Hongzhou started dancing. Liu Hongzhou still remembers those years when he practiced handstands or spins here. "When we started dancing here, people walking in the square looked at us with incredible eyes. At that time, there was basically no street dance in Chongqing, so they were surprised to see a group of avant-garde and weird children making noise here. " For himself at that time, Liu Hongzhou made no secret: "We know that many people's eyes told me at that time that they just regarded us as street dolls wandering in the street."
The so-called street dolls are understood by Chongqing people just like those hooligans who are not doing their jobs in the Hong Kong movie "The Girl's Home". Such a title is undoubtedly an insult and even a blow to dancers who are keen on street dance. Liu Hongzhou himself saw that under colored glasses, many companions who used to dance together stopped practicing at the "suggestion" of their parents or friends. Out of their insistence on dancing, Liu Hongzhou and others jumped to the end, from the pedestrian street to the stage, and became the champion of Chongqing Street Dance Competition from "Street Dance Baby". "Now you can see that street dance has jumped into the university campus called the ivory tower. In Chongqing and even China, street dance has been recognized by most people. " Liu Hongzhou proudly said, "So, don't treat us as street children."
Freshman girls who like hip-hop
Students in Liu Hongzhou, like him, not only dress avant-garde, but also show the unique lively character of fashionable youth in behavior. The two girls chatted easily with reporters, and their "children's clothes" made them look young. "What's the date today?" The reporter asked. The two girls giggled after hearing this. "We are all freshmen!"
He Yin is a freshman in Chongqing Normal University. She chose fashion design as her major, so she naturally got used to keeping up with fashion. Therefore, she can come to this art school in Yangjiaping to take three art classes. Among them, street dance is of course her favorite. Speaking of the goodness of street dance, He Yin began to talk nonstop. "Street dance exercises a unique temperament, which is of course very important for us girls; In addition to studying, we contemporary college students need to have their own specialties, and dancing well in street dance can also be regarded as a skill; The other thing is to enrich our campus life and make our university four years colorful from the beginning ... "Of course, in the choice of street dance, He Yin must also pass the mother's pass:" My mother is a traditional person, and she didn't support me to dance this avant-garde dance at first. Later, after watching one of my training courses, I fell in love with this lively and healthy exercise. Now every time I come home from class, she wants me to dance for her. "
From the square to the stage
There is a large electronic screen in the central square of Yangjiaping Pedestrian Street, and the wooden floor platform below the big screen is less than 100 square meter, which is very lively. A middle-aged couple danced cha-cha in the corner, and in the center of the platform were several teenagers practicing street dance moves with different difficulties. Liu Hongzhou, who walked beside the reporter, looked around and looked very cordial. "This is the earliest place to dance street dance in Chongqing. Now most of the street dance performers in Chongqing go out from here. "
Chongqing street dancers say that the "stage" on Yangjiaping Pedestrian Street is their cradle. In front of the reporter, a group of children also wore the unique costumes of street dancers. According to people around, these children gather here spontaneously after eight o'clock every night, rain or shine. Many of them don't know each other, but after they came here, the same beat made them get along very well. Liu Hongzhou said that these children also have their former shadows. "When I first started practicing street dance, Chongqing couldn't find a professional venue. It's just that there is a free' stage' here, so children who like street dance in Chongqing come spontaneously, ranging from a few to dozens. " Now, all the children who practiced dancing with Liu Hongzhou have left here. "Some perform in other places, some coach in the gym, and some win prizes in competitions in the city or even the whole country. After leaving this' stage', we all found our own stage. "
Listening to Liu Hongzhou, it seems to be a bitter history of Chongqing street dance development. The children who danced with Liu Hongzhou got together and formed a street dance troupe called "En". After their respective practices became more mature, they decided to disband and develop new street dance lovers all over Chongqing, and agreed to return to this former "stage" to be dance friends after their developed lovers had practiced to a certain extent. At that time, there were only six or seven people in En Group. Back and forth, they developed more than 300 people to join this group that likes hot shooting. At present, there are more than 10,000 Chongqing street dancers coming out of this square "stage", and the street dance troupe has developed into a new situation in which the new five colors, grace, Az and Pabulun are four pillars, and there are countless small groups. "The development of any new thing has its own process," Liu Hongzhou said. "From the square to the stage, Chongqing street dance has experienced a process from giving to harvesting."
Move it. Play cool with Mr. Liu
In the dance classroom surrounded by Zhengzhong, a group of avant-garde young people are dancing happily here. The thermal beat in the stereo is as exciting as drums, and the bright and transparent mirrors on the left and right sides make this dancing space more comfortable. A young mother sat with a little girl who was only a few years old. The appeal of music and dance made the little girl stare big eyes and grin. "This is called street dance." The little girl pointed to her little hand and said "introduction" to the reporter on the side seriously.
Neither music nor dance stopped because of the arrival of strangers. The young men with youthful and energetic faces reflected in the mirror, standing in the front, with smart and imaginative movements, are undoubtedly the focus of the whole dance team. His name is Liu Hongzhou, and he is the coach of this hip-hop training class. When he came to the reporter, the reporter suddenly found that Xiao Liu was only 20 years old. A long-haired headscarf, a dark military cap, a pair of camouflage pants, and a thin Liu Hongzhou in front of him, with a narrow small eye, smacks of Jay Chou. "I have been dancing street dance for three years." Liu Hongzhou spoke without expression. "But I used to dance folk dances."
Liu Hongzhou told reporters that after graduating from primary school, he entered Chongqing Art School, majoring in traditional dance courses such as folk dance, classical body rhyme and modern dance, and won an award in the city's college students' folk dance competition. However, it was after he came into contact with the new thing of street dance that he really fell in love with dance. "About three years ago, some of my friends brought back their newly learned street dance from Guangzhou. At that time, I was fascinated by this novel dance and began to learn to dance with them. " Liu Hongzhou said that practicing the dance foundation of folk dance made him more receptive and innovative than ordinary people when practicing street dance. After practice, he also began to take his disciples. Until the first half of this year, he won his first prize in Chongqing Street Dance Competition.
A cool one-handed handstand made the "disciples" around Liu Hongzhou burst into screams and applause. Girls' eyes are adoration, while boys' eyes are envy. Liu Hongzhou, with a slight smile on his face, clapped his hands. "Let's move together and find the feeling of dancing in the music. You can also be cool! " In music, boys and girls are intoxicated respectively.
Hip hop dance type
Rap
It is a kind of dance that people contact most. It has big and simple steps, and can show a complex sense of dance. Because it is easy to learn and beautiful to jump, it is very popular with the public.
Popin
Mechanical dance, using the muscles and joints of all parts of the body, with the beat of music and rich imagination, creates amazing dance steps. It belongs to the more difficult type.
break
Break dancing is also a difficult dance step, which can be roughly divided into two types: hand, head and body rotating on the ground, called big floor; Stepping on the ground with four limbs, combined with a tricky handstand, is called a small floor.
freestyle
This is a superb dance step, which combines all kinds of dances and expresses at will. There is no restriction on dance style and no deviation from the general dance norms. This is a personalized dance.
house
With House music, a kind of dance step is complicated and magical, which can be combined with the basic dance steps of Latin dance, martial arts somersault, tap dance and ballet circle. It can be elegant or quite wild.