Street Dance Styles & Benefits PDF

LESSON 01 - DANCE FITNESS STREET DANCE :BENEFITS AND STYLES This 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. It is often improvisational and social in nature, encouraging interaction a...

LESSON 01 - DANCE FITNESS STREET DANCE :BENEFITS AND STYLES This 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. It is often improvisational and social in nature, encouraging interaction and contact with spectators and other dancers. DIFFERENT GENRES OF STREET DANCE This refers to street dance styles primarily performed to hip-hop music or that have evolved as part of hip-hop culture. Hip-hop music incorporates a number of iconic elements, most notably DJ-ing and rapping, along with things like beat boxing, sampling, and juggling beats on turntables. “B-boying or breaking”, 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 1970s. A practitioner of this dance is called a “b- boy, b-girl, or breaker”. Popping was popularized by Samuel Boogaloo and his crew the Electric Boogaloos. It is based on the technique of quickly contracting and relaxing muscles to cause a jerk in a dancer's body. Popping forces parts of your body outwards, similar to an explosion within parts of your body. Locking or campbellocking, was created by Don “Campbellock” Campbell in 1969 in Los Angeles, California. It was popularized by his crew, The Lockers. Locking can be identified by its distinctive stops. It is usually performed by stopping the fast movement that you are doing, locking your body into a position, holding it, and then continuing at the same speed as before. A form of dancing that originated in the African-American community of South Central Los Angeles, California and is a relatively new form of the "Urban" Black dance movement. It is free, expressive and highly energetic. Most people paint their faces in different designs. Krumping is a dance style to release anger. It is a creative way of making geometric shapes forming right angle using your body parts. The style was originally practiced by young funk dancers. It is derived from the positions people were drawn in during the days of the Ancient Egyptians. Still a greatly respected move and King Tut aka “Mark Benson” is widely acclaimed for pioneering the style An 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, Waacking consists of stylized posing and fast synchronized arm movements to the beat of the music. Today, waacking is a popular element of hip hop dance.  BENEFITS OF Dancing as a recreational activity can be a way to stay fit for people of all ages, shapes, and sizes. It has a wide range of benefits such as: MENTAL HEALTH SOCIAL HEALTH FITNESS FUN & ENJOYMENT CULTURAL