STREET DANCE/HIP-HOP
and legs where in the lock is the basic moved used.
Street Dance is one of the newest dance genres in the 20th
century that immensely attracts the new generation
particularly the youth. It came from the African-American hip-
hop culture and tremendously spread worldwide
Hip-hop - It includes a wide range of styles primarily breaking,
locking, and popping.
FOUR FUNDAMENTAL CHARACTERISTICS OF HIP HOP
1. Rapping (MCing) - vocal element/spoken over the
accompaniment of “mixed” music. Rap music is the heart of
the hip-hop musical genre.
2. Disc jockeying (DJing) - creates your own music live, by
mixing records, scratching, and improvising.
3. Break dancing (B-boying) - is a kind of acrobatic dance,
important to the foundation of hip – hop.
4. Graffiti art - also known as aerosol art. It is mostly drawn or
written illegally on public
ELEMENTS OF STREET DANCE
1. Bounce or recoil - it is quick contraction and retraction, or
vice versa movement with energy and vitality.
2. Tightening of the body - the body is controlled with
firmness and strength to prepare it for explosive and sudden
movements.
3. Agility and coordination - “Because the body dances a
complex array of interlocking rhythms, percussive accents of
isolated body-parts pop out in unexpected phrasing and that
break dancers perform elaborate spins, balances, flips,
contortions and freezes” it must be able to move quickly and
smoothly from one position to the other with ease.
4. Fun - is an essential element of hip-hop, which offers its
dancers a mechanism to offer kinetic musicality with bravado
that is easily consumed by an immobile audience.
OLD SCHOOL STREET DANCE STYLE
1. Breaking - also known as break-dancing; it is an unstructured and
highly improvisational style that incorporates gymnastic and acrobatic
movements
2. Popping - a quickly contraction and relaxation of muscles to
producing jerking of various joints.
3. Locking - created by Don Campbell in Los Angeles, California
in 1969. It was originally called Campbellocking. It relies on fast
distinct arm and hand movements combined with relaxed hips
THE NEW SCHOOL STREET DANCE STYLE
1. Krumping - “characterized by unrestrained, rapid-fire, and
highly energetic moves of the limbs and torso”.
2. House - dance style that “emphasizes fast, complex footsteps
with fluid movements of the torso”.
3. Street Jazz - combination of hip-hop dance style and jazz
dance movements.
POWER MOVES
1. The Windmill - it is move in which the dancer spins from his
upper back to his chest while twirling his legs around his body in
a V-shape.
2. Headspin - the dancer spins on his head, often while wearing
a stocking cap or handkerchief.
3. Flare - this is an incredibly difficult moved borrowed from
gymnastics and resembles the use of a Pommel Horse, but is
performed without one.
4. Jackhammer - it is moved performed on the ground having
the dancer balancing on one hand and laying his body on the
elbow of the same arm.
5. Top Rock - this is simple dance done standing up to initiate
break dancing.
6. Uprock - this is doing a top rock with someone else, sort of
like a fight but without contact and very rhythmic
7. 6 - step - it resembles walking in a circle on the ground. Only
one hand is touching the ground at a time.
8. Moonwalk - a move where dancer slides backward while
their legs appear to be walking forward
9. Worm - a move in which a dancer lies on the ground and
forms a rippling motion through his body.
TIPS ON HIP-HOP DANCING
1. Choose an upbeat music or song.
2. Make sure to wear comfortable shoes.
3. Feel relaxed before stepping on the dance floor.
4. You have to move the hips from left to right, from front to
back.
5. Keep practicing.
6. Watch dance tutorials/videos from the internet or television.
7. Take some dance lessons