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• 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.
• 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 origin is in the Bronx, in New York City, during the 1970s.
• Hip-hop is mostly among African Americans and some influence of Latin Americans Hip-hop culture is composed of pillars such as DJ-ing, rapping, breakdancing, and graffiti art.
• 4 pillars of Hip-hop; 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 beatboxing, sampling, and juggling beats on turntables.
• 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
• Locking was created by Don Campbellock Campbell in 1969 in Los Angeles, California.
• Locking was popularized by his crew. The Lockers.
• Locking can be identified by its distinctive stops.
• 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.
• In locking, dancers hold their positions longer.
• The lock is the primary move used in locking.
• Locking is similar to a freeze or a sudden pause.
• A locker's dancing is characterized by frequently locking in place and after a brief freeze moving again
• 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.
• Krumping is free, expressive and highly energetic. Most people paint their faces in different designs.
• Krumping is a dance style to release anger. It is reported that gang riots in the United States decreased because of krumping style.
• B-boying or breaking, also called breakdancing,
• B-boying is a style of street dance and the first hip-hop dance style that originated among Black and Puerto Rican youths in New York City during the early 1970s.
• A practitioner of b-boying is called a b-boy, b-girl or breaker.
• Although the term breakdance is frequently used to refer to the dance, b-boying and breaking are the original terms.
• Four Movements of B-boying are; Toprock, Downrock, Freezes and Power moves
• Toprock is footwork-oriented steps performed while standing up
• Downrock is footwork performed with both hands and feet on the floor
• Freezes is stylish poses done on your hands
• Power moves is comprise full-body spins and rotations that give the illusion of defying gravity
• Tutting is a creative way of making geometric shapes forming right angle using your body parts.
• Tutting style was originally practiced by young funk dancers.
• Tutting is derived from the positions people were drawn in during the days of the Ancient Egyptians. 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 aka Mark Benson is widely acclaimed for pioneering the style.
• 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 basic movements of the dance are a fast heel-and- toe action with a style suitable for various types of electronic music. Some variants incorporate arm movements.