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.
• Sreet 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 the various similar dance moves and styles collected into one practice and regarded as the same dance.
• The term Street Dance is used to describe vernacular dances in urban context.
• B-boying or breaking, also called breakdancing, is a style of street dance and the first hip-hop dance style that originated among Black and Puerto Rican youths.
• B-boying is an athletic style of street dance. B-Boys means "break boys"

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• A practitioner of this dance (B-boying) is called a b-boy, b-girl, or breaker. B-boying and breaking are the original terms.
• FOUR MOVEMENTS OF B-BOYING: TOPROCK DOWNROCK FREEZES POWER MOVES
• TOPROCK - footwork-oriented steps performed while standing up
• DOWNROCK - footwork performed with bothhands and feet on the floor
• FREEZES- stylish poses done on your hands
• POWER MOVES comprise full-body spins and rotations that give the illusion of defying gravity
• Popping was popularized by Samuel Boogaloo Sam Solomon and his crew the Electric Boogaloos.
• Popping is based on the technique of quickly contracting and relaxing muscles to cause a jerk in a dancer's body.
• Popping forces parts of your body outwards, similar to an explosion within parts of your body. Popping also contracts muscles, but it is followed by relaxation that gives it the jerking appearance of popping.
• Locking or campbellocking, was created by Don Campbellock Campbell in 1969 in Los Angeles, California. Popularized by THE LOCKERS.
• KRUMPING - "Kingdom Radically Uplifted Mighty Praise" - Created by "Tight Eyez" and "Big Mijo" during early 2000s.
• Krumping originated in the African-American community of South Central Los Angeles, California
• KRUMPING is a relatively new form of the "Urban" Black dance movement. Free, expressive and highly energetic
• In Krumping most people paint theirfaces in different designs. Krumping is a dance style releasing anger.
• It is reported that gang riots in the United States was minimized because of krumping style.
• Tutting is a creative way of making geometric shapes forming right angle using your body parts.
• The style Tutting was originally practiced by young funk dancers. It is derived from the positions people were drawn in during the days of the Ancient Egyptians.
• TUTTING - It is the positions seen in these portraits that have been adopted by dancers today. - Tutting is still a greatly respected move and King Tut a.k.a. Mark Benson is widely acclaimed for pioneering the style.
• SHUFFLING - The Melbourne Shuffle (also known as Rocking or simply The Shuffle) is a rave and club dance that originated in the late 1980s in the underground rave music scene in Melbourne, Australia.
• SHUFFLING - The basic movements in the dance are a fast heel-and-toe action with a style suitable for various types of electronic music.
• SHUFFLING

  • people who dance the shuffle are often referred to as rockers, due in part to the popularity of shuffling to rock music in the early 1990s.
• Waacking is an African American form of street dance originating from the 1970's disco era of the underground club scenes in Los Angeles and New York City.
• Waacking consists of stylized posing and fast synchronized arm movements to the beat of the music.
• Today, waacking is a popular element of hip hop dance.
• Locking can be identified by its distinctive stops. It is usually performed by stopping the fast movement that you are doing, (?) your body into a position, holding it, and then continuing at the same speed as before. In (?), dancers hold their positions longer.
• dance styles

  1. popping
  2. locking
  3. krumping
  4. tutting
  5. shuffling
  6. waacking