Street and Hip-Hop Dance Styles PDF
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This document provides a description of various street and hip-hop dance styles, their origins, and key characteristics. The document also covers different styles of dancing and their underlying themes. The text discusses several different styles of dancing, along with their historical contexts and cultural significance.
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STREET AND HIP-HOP STYLES Active Recreation a therapeutic refreshment of relaxations of one’s body and mind. DANCE a recreational activity that can develop our...
STREET AND HIP-HOP STYLES Active Recreation a therapeutic refreshment of relaxations of one’s body and mind. DANCE a recreational activity that can develop our physical, mental, social, and emotional health. Dancing as part of our lifestyle can surely sustain our fitness. DANCE the origins of dance are cave paintings in India dating to about 8000 BCE Egyptian tomb paintings also depict dance in about 3300 BCE. DANCE dance teaches the importance of movement and fitness in the variety of reasons. DANCE Not only is it important physically but contributes to one’s mental health and social interactions. BENEFITS OF DANCING Improve condition of your heart and lungs Increase muscular strength, endurance and motor fitness Increase aerobic fitness Improve muscle tone and strength Weight management BENEFITS OF DANCING Stronger bones and reduce osteoporosis Better condition, agility and flexibility Improve balance and spatial awareness Increase physical confidence Improved mental functions STREET DANCE STREET DANCE -refers to dance styles that have evolved outside of dance studios. It is performed in streets, dance parties, parks, school yards, or in any available space. HIP-HOP HIP-HOP a cultural movement best known for its impact on music in the form of the musical genre of the same name. STREET AND HIP- HOP DANCE STYLES B-BOYING also called breakdancing 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 1970’s. TYPES OF B-BOYING Toprock-footwork-oriented steps performed while standing up. (SALSA STEP) Downrock-footwork performed with both hands and feet on the floor Freezes-stylish poses done on your hands Power moves -comprise full-body spins and rotations that give the illusion of defying gravity. HIP-HOP STYLES POPPING popularized by Samuel Boogaloo Sam Solomon and His crew the Electric Boogaloos is based on the technique of quickly contracting and relaxing muscles to cause a jerk in a dancer’s body LOCKING campbellocking, was created by Don Campbellock Campbell in 1969 in Los Angeles Locking can be identified by its distinctive stops. It is usually performed by stopping the fast movement that you are doing, looking your body into a position, holding it KRUMPING is a form of dancing that originated in the African-AmFGFFXerican community of South Central FXGVXCBVXLos Angeles, California and is a relatively new form of the “Urban” Black dance movement Krumping is a dance style releasing anger TUTTING is a creative way of making geometric shapes forming right angle using your body parts It is derived from the positions people were drawn in during the days of the Ancient Egyptians SHUFFLING The Melbourne Shuffle (also known as Rocking or simply the Shuffle) is a rave and club dance that originated in the late 1980’s in the underground rave music scene in Melbourne, Australia Focuses more on footworks. WAACKING African American form of street dance originating from the 1970’s disco era of the underground club scenes in Los Angeles and New York City. of stylized posing and fast synchronized arm movements to the beat of the music