What kinds of dances are there in street dance?

1, the lock originated in the 1960s and was invented by the Lockers team led by Don Campbell. This is the earliest street dance. The rapid rotation and pointing of the wrist and arm, the sudden freeze of the action, accompanied by various techniques such as clapping, jumping and splitting are its main characteristics.

2.Popping originated in the early 1970s and took shape in the middle and late 1970s. It rose in different forms in San Francisco, Fresno, Oakland and other places on the west coast of the United States. This is a funk and hip-hop style. The initial basic form is the skill of rapid contraction and relaxation of muscles of various parts, which is the feeling of the dancer's body vibration.

3.Breaking originated in 1970s, and took shape in Bronx, new york, USA in 1980s. It is a kind of street dance with higher difficulty, which pays more attention to the combination of dance steps and skills. It is divided into four parts: top rock, footwork, freeze frame and Powermove.

4.Hip-Hop originated in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It is the second street dance after Breaking, and now it is a widely popular street dance type. Hip-hop originally meant B-Boy, but later someone danced with songs sung by MC, so it was actually later that hip-hop dancing was the origin of B-Boy.

5.House was formed in 1980s and 1990s, and widely absorbed various dance elements such as break dance, Hiphop, Salsa, Tap and ballet. , and formed a variety of dance types that express House dance music with rich and brisk pace changes, which are divided into three types: jacking, footwork and lofting.

6. Reggae and Dancehall originated in Jamaica. With the spread and development of reggae music in France and the United States, they began to enter popular culture and public view, and their actions were enthusiastic and wild, with a lot of sexual hints.

7. Clown and Krump (Clown Dance) was invented by Tommy the Clown in the early 1990s. They danced in clown costumes, which is similar to Hiphop's style, but more wild and exaggerated.

His disciples Lil C, Tight Eyez and others left the team to start a business. They made a lot of changes to the clown dance, calling it Krump, which implied the powerful praise of the golden radial uplift, and interpreted it as a dance to praise God by venting and sublimating the negative emotions in the heart through intense movements.

8.Waacking, Punking and Voguing were founded in 1970s. They were originally stage dances of gay men in underground gay bars on the west coast of the United States, expressing disco and funk music with a lot of rotating arms and coquettish gestures and movements.

Punkking originally refers to Waacking performed by Locking dancers, while Voguing is a form in which Waacking shows house music on the east coast of the United States and particularly highlights the pose sense of models.

9. On the west coast of the United States, turf sports characterized by non-human twisting of arms at joints such as shoulders have appeared, and a large number of styles and techniques such as Popping, Robot, Wave, Kingtut, Slide, Slowmotion, and the body rotation and turnover of ballet, Breaking and other dances have appeared, forming a strange and exaggerated new street dance.

10, Jazz (Jazz Dance) Jazz dance is a fast and dynamic rhythmic dance, which belongs to an extroverted dance, unlike an introverted dance shown by classical ballet or modern dance.

As a kind of hip-hop dance, contemporary jazz has been given different names, such as street jazz, jazz Funk, La Style, Lastyle hip-hop and Urban Dance. Different jazz choreographers direct the creation.

Extended data

Hip-hop originated in the United States, which is a general term for many different kinds of dances based on different street cultures or musical styles. The earliest street dance is Locking, which originated in the 1960s.

Actions consist of various combinations of walking, running and jumping, and are composed of joints such as head, neck, shoulders, upper limbs, trunk, etc., such as flexion and extension, rotation, circle, sparkling, wave-like twisting, etc.

Each movement has its own specific fitness effect, which not only pays attention to the coordination of upper and lower limbs, abdomen and back, head and trunk movements, but also pays attention to the independent movement of each part. It was introduced to China in 1980s, and gradually spread as a fitness active communication.

Street dancing, which was born in the late 1960s, is the dance of the urban poor in black America. In 1970s, it was classified as a part of hip-hop culture, with strong performance, participation and competitiveness.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Street Dance