Beginners should first know that there are many types of street dance. At present, there are HipHop, Breaking, Popping, House, Jazz, Raggae, Punking, Krump, Locking and so on. But no matter what kind of dance needs love and perseverance, age, height and thinness are not too big a problem.
So you need to choose the dance that suits you best. You may like some dances very much, but your physical fitness may not be suitable. Baidu knows the characteristics of each dance, and then studies it accordingly, but no matter what kind of dance, the foundation is the most important! Conduct some training, such as:
Physical exercise: push-ups, sit-ups, pull-ups, sitting/standing forward, etc.
Balance exercise: handstand;
Flexible exercise: pulling ligaments, opening shoulders, etc.
Basic rhythm: music, lifting, etc.
Extended data:
Hip-hop originated in the United States, which is a general term for many different dances based on different street cultures or musical styles. The earliest street dance is Locking, which originated in the 1960s.
Actions are composed of various kinds of walking, running and jumping, which are composed of joints such as head, neck, shoulders, upper limbs and trunk, such as flexion and extension, rotation, hovering, flashing and wave torsion. Each movement has its own specific fitness effect, which not only pays attention to the coordination between upper and lower limbs, abdomen and back, head and trunk, 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.
As far as action forms are concerned, street dancers can be divided into two categories: dancer and Bboy(bgi rl).
As far as performance forms are concerned, hip-hop dancers can be divided into two categories: one is individual skill hip-hop and the other is group hip-hop. Personal skill street dance is the earliest popular street dance, because it can reflect the energetic side of young people. Many of their ground movements, such as somersault and handstand jump, are high-skilled and highly ornamental street dance performances.
Group street dance is a popular form of street dance, which reflects the needs of the public. It's easy to jump and has a strong sense of rhythm. It has both the feeling of dancing and the function of fitness.
Common types:
Locking originated in the 1960s and was invented by the Lockers team led by Don Cambell. This is the earliest street dance. The rapid rotation and pointing of wrists and arms, sudden freezing of movements, accompanied by various techniques such as clapping, jumping and splitting are its main characteristics.
Popping originated in the early 1970s and took shape in the middle and late 1970s. It rises in different forms in San Francisco, Fresno, Oakland and other places in California on the west coast of the United States. This is a funk and hip-hop style. The initial basic form is the technique of rapid contraction and relaxation of muscles of various parts, which is the feeling of the dancer's body vibration.
Breaking originated in 1970s, and was formed in Bronx, new york, USA in 1980s. It is a kind of difficult street dance, which pays more attention to the combination of dance steps and skills, and is divided into four parts: TopRock, footwork, freeze-frame and Powermove.
Hip-Hop originated in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and it is the second hip-hop after Breaking. Hip-hop originally meant B-Boy, and later people danced with songs sung by MC, so the origin of B-Boy as hip-hop is actually a later statement.
House was founded in 1980s and 1990s, and it has widely absorbed various dance elements such as Breaking, Hiphop, Salsa, Tap, Ballet, etc. And formed a variety of dances to express House's dance music with rich and brisk pace changes. These dances are divided into three categories: jacking, footwork and lofting.
Reggae and ballroom originated in Jamaica. With the spread and development of reggae music in France and the United States, it began to enter popular culture and public view, with passionate and wild actions and a lot of sexual hints.
Clown and Krump (Clown Dance) were created by Tommy in the early 1990s.
Clowns invented dancing in clown costumes, which is similar to Hiphop's style, but more wild and exaggerated. His disciples Li C and Jin.
Eyez and others left the team and started their own businesses. They changed the clown dance a lot and called it Krump, which means that the kingdom has been completely upgraded.
Mighty praise is interpreted as a kind of dance to praise God by venting and subliming negative emotions through intense movements.
Waacking, Punking and Voguing were founded in the 1970s, originally as stage dances of gay men in underground gay bars on the west coast of the United States. Disco and funk music are expressed by a large number of rotating arms and coquettish postures and walks. Punking originally refers to Waacking performed by Locking dancers, while Voguing is a form of Waacking's expression of family music on the east coast of the United States, which particularly highlights the model's sense of posture.
Turfing, which appeared on the west coast of the United States, is characterized by non-human fractures of the arm at the joints such as shoulders. It is a strange and exaggerated new type of street dance, which combines a lot of styles and techniques such as Popping, Robot, Wave, Kingtut, Slide and Slowmotion, as well as body rotation and turnover of ballet, Breaking and other dances.
JAZZ (jazz dance) Jazz dance is a fast and energetic rhythmic dance, belonging to an extroverted dance, which is different from the introverted dance shown by classical ballet or modern dance. Contemporary
Jazz, as a kind of street dance, has been given different names, such as street jazz, jazz funk, La Style, La Style Hiphop, city dance and so on.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-hip hop dance