ACTIVE RECREATION (STREET & HIPHOP DANCES)

• Street dance refers to dance styles that have evolved outside of dance studios.
• Street dance is performed in streets, dance parties, parks, school yards, or in any available space.
• Street dance is often improvisational and social in nature, encouraging interaction and contact with spectators and other dancers.
• A full street dance is a collection of various similar dance moves and styles put together into one practice and regarded as the same 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.
• Hip-hop culture is composed of the pillars such as DJ-ing, rapping, breakdancing, and graffiti art.
• Hip-hop dance refers to street dance styles primarily performed to hip-hop music or that have evolved as part of hip-hop culture.
• Hip-hop music incorporates a number of iconic elements, most notably DJing and rapping, along with things like beat boxing, sampling, and juggling beats on turntables.
• B-Boying, also known as breaking or breakdancing, is a style of street dance and the first hip-hop dance style that originated among Black and Puerto Ricans youth in New York City during the early 1970s.
• A practitioner of B-Boying is called a b-boy, B-girl, or breaker.
• B-Boying incorporates four movements: Toprock, Downrock, Freezes, and Power Moves.
• Poppin’, a style of street dance, was popularized by Samuel Boogaloo Sam Solomon and his crew the Electric Boogaloos.
• Poppin’ is based on the technique of quickly contracting and relaxing muscles to cause a jerk in a dancer’s body.
• Locking, or campbelocking, was created by Don Campbellock Campbell in 1969 in Los Angeles, California.
• Locking is usually performed by stopping the fast movement that you are doing, locking your body into a position, holding it, and then continuing at the same speed as before.
• Krumping, a form of dancing that originated in the African-American community of South-Central Los Angeles, California, is a relatively new form of the “Urban” Black dance movement.
• Krumping is free, expressive, and highly energetic.
• Tutting, a creative way of making geometric shapes forming right angles using your body parts, was originally practiced by young funk dancers.
• Tutting is derived from the positions people drowned during the days of the Ancient Egyptians.
• Shuffling, also known as the Melbourne Shuffle, is a rave and club dance originated in the late 1980s in the underground rave music scene in Melbourne, Australia.
• Waacking, an African-American form of street dance originating from the 1970’s disco era of the underground club scene in Los Angeles and New York City, consists of stylized posing and fast synchronized arm movements to the beat of the music.
• 1. boying is energetic
• Four kinds of movements in B-boying:

  • Toprock: standing, footwork
  • Downrock: on the floor, whole body
  • Power move: stunts
  • Freezes: poses
• Popping involves robotics and was made famous by Samuel Boogaloo
• Locking includes fast movements followed by a sudden stop
• Waacking consists of fast arm movements, originated in the 1970s in Los Angeles, and was made famous by the LGBTQ community
• Krumping does not involve stunts, focuses on stomping, expresses all emotions but not in a violent way
• Tutting involves creating shapes and was made famous by Mark Benson
• Shuffling includes the running man move, originated in Melbourne, Australia