MAPEH PE Street Dance

• Street Dance is a dance style that evolved outside dance studious in any available open space
• In any available space such as streets, dance parties, block parties, parks, school yards, night clubs
• Street dance can be descripted as Hiphop, Funk, Break dancing
• Breaking - style for the young and talented and extremely fit
• Top Rock - the steps are performed from a standing position starting with the warm up to the more dynamic moves
• Down Rock - relates to the footwork that is performed on the floor
• Power moves - actions that require a certain amount of physical power to perform.
• Finishing move - comes at the end of a dancers set which is normally a freeze in a stylish pose
• Suicide - falling into his or her back as if she or he has lost control
• Locking - type of street dance that involves acrobatic moves and could be seen comical
• Locking - requires fast and exagerrated hand and arm movements but the hips and legs are more relaxed
• Krumping - requires a lot of energy is is entirely freestyle
• Krumping - became a major part of the hipop in the 1990
• Krumping includes four primary moves - Wobbles stomps, arm swings and chest pops
• Popping - usually done standing up quickly and contracting your muscles causing your body to jerk.
• Waving - dance style that is basically a combined set of moves that makes it look as though a wave is traveling through the body of the performer
• Waving - style is used in conjunction with popping
• Robotics dance style - dancing like a robot. The moves themselves are called dime stops.
• Arrested RObot - simply means that the body is shaking rapidly depicting as if the robot is breaking down
• Mannequin - the dance would simply have a glazed look on their face and all of th emovements she makes would be really slow as if she is moving in slow motion
• House dance - main styles include lofting, footwork, and jacking. THe footwork is fast while the body movement are very fluid and are synchronized with the speed of music
• House dance main styles - lofting, footwork and jacking
• Street Jazz - inspired by traditional dance, a mixtur eof hip hop and jazz. The footwork can be fasst and complex and the floor moves are acrobatic.
• Recite the benefits of street dance.