Dance Styles and Benefits Quiz

Street and Hip-Hop Styles

• Street dance evolved outside dance studios. It's performed in streets, parties, parks, and schoolyards.

Active Recreation

• Active recreation is a therapeutic way to refresh the body and mind.

Dance

• Dance is a recreational activity promoting physical, mental, social, and emotional health.
• It sustains fitness and well-being.

Dance Origins

• Dance origins date back to cave paintings in India (8000 BCE).
• Egyptian tomb paintings also depict dance (around 3300 BCE).

Dance Characteristics

• Dance teaches the importance of movement and fitness.
• It encompasses a variety of reasons.

Dance Benefits

• Improves heart and lung condition.
• Increases muscular strength, endurance, and motor fitness.
• Boosts aerobic fitness.
• Enhances muscle tone and strength.
• Supports weight management.
• Strengthens bones and reduces osteoporosis.
• Improves agility, flexibility, and balance.
• Enhances spatial awareness.
• Increases physical confidence.
• Improves mental functions.

Street Dance

• Street dance styles developed outside dance studios.

Hip-Hop

• Hip-hop is a cultural movement, best known for its impact on music.
• It includes a genre of music with the same name.

B-Boying (Breakdancing)

• B-boying is a street dance style, originating with Black and Puerto Rican youths in New York City during the early 1970s.

B-Boying Styles

• Top Rock: Footwork-oriented steps, performed while standing.
• Downrock: Footwork performed with both hands and feet on the floor.
• Freezes: Stylish poses done on hands.
• Power moves: Full-body spins and rotations, giving an illusion of defying gravity.

Popping

• Popularized by Samuel Boogaloo Sam and his crew, the Electric Boogaloos.
• It involves quickly contracting and relaxing muscles to create jerky movements.

Locking

• Created by Don Campbell in Los Angeles, 1969.
• Characterized by distinctive stops that halt fast movements, positioning the body, and holding the pose.

Krumping

• A dance from the African-American community in South Central Los Angeles.
• It's a relatively new form of "Urban" Black dance.
• Krumping is a dance style for expressing anger.

Tutting

• A creative way to create geometric shapes by forming right angles using body parts.
• Derived from ancient Egyptian positions.

Shuffling

• Also known as Rocking, or simply the Shuffle, is a rave and club dance.
• Originating in the late 1980s Melbourne, Australia, underground rave music scene.
• Focuses on footwork.

Waacking

• An African-American street dance style originating from the 1970s disco era.
• Characterized by stylized posing and synchronized arm movements to music.

Test your knowledge on various dance styles, particularly street and hip-hop. Learn about the origins of dance, its characteristics, and the numerous benefits it offers for physical and mental well-being.