Street dance evolved outside of studios and is performed improvisationally in public spaces. It is often social and encourages interaction. Hip-hop originated in the Bronx in the 1970s and has four pillars: DJing, breaking/b-boying, rapping, and graffiti. Breaking/b-boying combines acrobatics, gymnastics and rhythm and has four movements: top rocking, down rocking, freezes, and power moves.
Street dance evolved outside of studios and is performed improvisationally in public spaces. It is often social and encourages interaction. Hip-hop originated in the Bronx in the 1970s and has four pillars: DJing, breaking/b-boying, rapping, and graffiti. Breaking/b-boying combines acrobatics, gymnastics and rhythm and has four movements: top rocking, down rocking, freezes, and power moves.
Street dance evolved outside of studios and is performed improvisationally in public spaces. It is often social and encourages interaction. Hip-hop originated in the Bronx in the 1970s and has four pillars: DJing, breaking/b-boying, rapping, and graffiti. Breaking/b-boying combines acrobatics, gymnastics and rhythm and has four movements: top rocking, down rocking, freezes, and power moves.
Street dance evolved outside of studios and is performed improvisationally in public spaces. It is often social and encourages interaction. Hip-hop originated in the Bronx in the 1970s and has four pillars: DJing, breaking/b-boying, rapping, and graffiti. Breaking/b-boying combines acrobatics, gymnastics and rhythm and has four movements: top rocking, down rocking, freezes, and power moves.
Dances Street dance Street dance refers to dance styles that have evolved outside of dance studios. It is performed in streets, dance parties, parks, school yards, or in any available space. It is often improvisational and social in the nature, encouraging interaction and contact with spectators and other dancers. Hip-hop Dance Hip-hop is a cultural movement best known for its impact on music in the form of the musical genre of the same name. It has its origins in the Bronx, in New York City, during the 1970s, mostly among African Americans and some influence of Latin Americans Fun fact! Street dance can be considered as the father of hip-hop dancing Four Pillars of Hip-hop 1. Djing is the art of spinning records at a dance party, picking out songs in a crowd-pleasing sequence. Also the art of touching and moving records with your hands. Cutting (using volume control to drop in a section of music from one turntable into music from another turntable) and Scratching (the sound a DJ makes by putting his hand on the record and rubbing the vinyl under the needle in time with the music) are two popular DJing techniques. Four Pillars of Hip-hop 2. Breakdancing is a style of dancing that includes gymnastic moves, head-spins and back-spins. Four Pillars of Hip-hop 3. Rapping Rapping is the art of saying rhymes to the beat of the music. It comes out of the African-American oral tradition of using rhyming language to ridicule your friends or enemies in a clever way. Four Pillars of Hip-hop 4. Graffiti is a visual art, an expression of youth culture and rebellion in public places. The first forms of subway graffiti were tags or signatures of someone’s nickname or crew (a group of artists that work together). It has evolved into elaborate scripts, color effects, and shading. HIP-HOP DANCE STYLES
BREAKING/B-BOYING, also called
breakdancing, is a style of street dance and the first hip-hop dance style that was created in the South Bronx New York City among Black and Puerto Rican youths during the early 1970s. HIP-HOP DANCE STYLES BREAKING/B-BOYING,
The performers are either called
B-boys or B-girls and they perform B-boying. As a dance style, it combines 3 main elements: acrobatics, gymnastics and rhythm. BREAKING/B-BOYING has four movements:
Top rock - footwork-oriented steps
performed while standing up BREAKING/B-BOYING, has four movements:
Down rock -footwork performed
with both hands and feet on the floor BREAKING/B-BOYING has four movements:
Freezes -stylish poses done with
your hands BREAKING/B-BOYING, has four movements:
Power moves–comprised of fullbody
spins and rotations that give the illusion of defying the gravity HIP-HOP DANCE STYLES
LOCKING, also called as Campbel
locking, was created by Don Campbellock Campbell in 1969 in Los Angeles, California. It was popularized by his crew, The Lockers. HIP-HOP DANCE STYLES
It is a type of dance that is very
similar to popping. Both movements seem to have a “PAUSE”. The difference is, in locking, the dancers hold their positions called the LOCK, longer. The lock which is similar to freeze or sudden change, is the primary move used in locking HIP-HOP DANCE STYLES
POPPING was popularized by
Samuel Boogaloo Sam Solomon and his crew, the Electric Boogaloos. It was created in Fresno, California in the 1970s. HIP-HOP DANCE STYLES
Boogaloo consists of loose
movements using the hips and legs. It gives the illusion that the performer has no bones. HIP-HOP DANCE STYLES
It is based on the technique of quickly
contracting and relaxing muscles to cause a jerk in a dancer’s body. HIP-HOP DANCE STYLES TUTTING is an upper-body dance that uses arms, hands, and wrists in a creative way to make geometric shapes forming a right angle. It can also be done with the fingers rather than the arms. This method is called finger tutting. HIP-HOP DANCE STYLES
It is derived from the positions
people have drawn during the Ancient Egyptians. HIP-HOP DANCE STYLES
SHUFFLING (Melbourne Shuffle or
rocking) is a rave and club dance that originated in the late 1980s in the underground rave music scene in Melbourne, Australia. HIP-HOP DANCE STYLES
It is characterized by fast heel and
toe twisting, stepping, running man variations, stomping with the beat, foot swiveling from side to side, and having feet that appear to be gliding on and off the ground. HIP-HOP DANCE STYLES
KRUMPING is a form of dancing that
originated in the African-American community of South Central Los Angeles, California and is a relatively new form of the “Urban” Black dance movement. HIP-HOP DANCE STYLES It is characterized as being a free dance where the movements are more abrupt and strong. It is also an expressive, exaggerated, and highly energetic dance.The youth who started this style view it as a way for them to release anger, aggression, and frustration positively, in a non- violent way. HIP-HOP DANCE STYLES WAACKING is an African American form of street dance originating in the 1970s disco era of the underground LGBT club scenes in Los Angeles and New York City and receive its name from the English word “waack”, which means “waving arms”. Itscharacteristics are the stylized posing and fast synchronized arm movements.
