STREET DANCE  DJing (aural) – started in 1970 with its trademark of innovative

break and isolation of the percussion sounds

- Informal dance styles that evolved outside dance studious in any
 MCing(oral) – form of poetic and verbal acrobatics. Acrobatics
available open space. This includes streets, dance parties, parks,
because it was inspired by ancient African culture and oral
school yards and night clubs
tradition was also known as rapping. Acrobatic due to its rapid
- Vernacular dance in urban context. Vernacular dances are often
fire word play (freestyle rhyme) and lyrics that told about
improvisational and social in nature, encouraging interaction and
stories of urban life as the time the rapper knew it.
contact with spectators and other dances
 Beatboxing(vocal) – instead of music track, different sound were
- Street dance umbrella term for a large number of social dance styles
made with their mouth to create a beat and tune that serve as a
STREET DANCINF base upon the grasp where it is spoken
 Breakdancing(physical) – started with shaka solo kings& solo
- Has number of styles ranging from breakdance and popping through
queens and has dance group, the rock’s teddy group. These
krump
dances giver rise to b-boying and b—girl. This also describes a
- Broad umbrella term that describes range of funk and hip-hop
poetry in motion because breakdance combines acrobatic,
dance styles that have grown from the USA since the 1970s
gymnastic, capuera, martial arts and other cultural arts
- Popular form: breakdance, popping, locking, house dance
 Graffiti(visual) – most controversial and also called as vandalism.
- Offers a great workout for the body, with squats, turns and jumps
It is signified by tags or creatively designs spray painting
stretching a variety of muscles. Improvisation lies at the core of
signature of graffiti artist. They usually conduct it on walls,
street dancing, with participants allowing rhythmic music to shape
public cans and other public places
the movement of their bodies
-Toronto, Montreal and other major city approved graffiti as
- Contains aspects of choreography. There are number of standard
legal.
moves
-it evolved to enormous colorful illustrations that cover walls
BRIEF HISTORY OF STREET DANCING and even the entire buildings
 Fashion – the element that changed over the lap of years.
- Hip-hop as a cultural movement began in the Bronx in New York
- Once imaged was extremely important, before it was baggy
City in 1976. Certain aspects of hip-hop culture began to spread in
jeans, extremely lose clothing, basketball outfits, bandana
the mainstreams population of the USA during the early 1980s and
-way to show you belong in the scene or you
hip-hop culture also spread throughout the world 1990s
understand/experience the culture like urban heritage or
 Population- African, American latino current issues
 Certain aspects – clothes, language and music. -nowadays, hip-hop no longer defined by appearance. Today,
- This is mainly due to more group using vidoes to promote their hip-hop artist have already created their own look to show the
music which were then viewed by a wider audience through music individuality and uniqueness
channels. Some consider beatboxing to be he fifth element of genre; - Main aspects or elements of hiphop culture: Rapping(mcing), DJing,
others might add fashion, slang, Double Dutching or other elements Graffiti, b-boying(breakdancing)
as important facets of hiphop -
- When the first style of hiphop was created, it has six foundational
elements: