Hip-hop is a kind of folk dance, which arose among African-American teenagers in 1980s and is an integral part of African-American "hip-hop". Because this kind of dance appears in the street, regardless of the venue equipment, it is called hip-hop, which has strong participation, performance and competitiveness.
In China, street dance as a fitness method was introduced by Meng Xianjun of Beijing Sport University on 1995. In order to achieve the effect of fitness, Meng Xianjun selectively adapted the original hip-hop dance to be chic and decadent, and removed the difficult and dangerous ground movements in the hip-hop performance, instead of venting his emotions, he only wanted to be healthy.
Second, the types of street dance
According to the types of movements, street dance can be divided into two categories: street dance and break dance. Broken: It is a highly skilled sports dance, which requires dancers to have high strength, flexibility and coordination. Teenagers who dance this type of dance are called B-boy/B-girl.
Hip-hop: Dance-style hip-hop, which has many styles, such as Poping, Locking, Electric, Turbo, House and so on. They don't need higher skills such as breaking, but they need more coordination and sense of dance, as well as flexibility and control of their limbs.
There is also a saying that hip-hop is called Hip-Hop, which includes two types-old school and new school. Old Shool dances include lock (lock dance), Poping (mechanical dance), break (break dance), Wave (electric current), etc., while New Shool is generally "gentle", without much foot movements, only adding a lot of head and hand movements, paying attention to the rhythm of the upper body. In the rhythm of the same period, the new school appears more fluent and advocates natural expression, while the music rhythm of the old school is more intensive.
In China, street dance is currently divided into fitness street dance and popular street dance. Hip-hop in the gym is called fitness hip-hop, which combines the most basic and simple content covered by popular hip-hop with the part beneficial to physical and mental development.
Third, the basic skills of street dance
First of all, we should have a healthy body and a certain strength.
If you don't have enough strength to practice street dance, you can't do it, so you should practice your physical fitness and have enough strength to do graceful movements before practicing street dance. The strength here includes arm strength, waist strength, abdominal strength and leg strength. Here are some ways to practice strength:
1, arm strength training push-ups-post-handstand push-ups. 4-8 groups a day, 20-70 in each group, and the time interval should not exceed 3 minutes.
2, waist and abdomen strength exercises. Sit-ups, 2-5 groups a day, each group between 20-40, this must be used with both hands and feet to get up, that is to say, the body is V-shaped.
3. Leg strength training. Squat and leapfrog, it is best to take 10 kg of things, 20-40 at a time, run two groups once a day, 2000 meters to 5000 meters at a time. It is divided into jogging-middle running-fast running-which is also a way to exercise endurance.
Second, there must be good cooperation.
Coordination exercises include control, balance and endurance training. Coordination is very important for a dancer, and it is also a basic practice before dancing. The same is true of street dance, and physical coordination is also very important. It is suggested that we should pay attention to coordinated exercise when learning street dance. There are some movements to practice coordination, such as vertical jump (feet together, hands bent upward), back and forth jump, side jump, square jump and so on.
Third, we should cultivate a sense of music and rhythm.
To practice your sense of music, you should listen to hip-hop music and dance along. Listen more and practice more, and you will gradually have a sense of music. When practicing, you can start to find some music with moderate rhythm and little change, and learn to beat with your feet first. At this time, we must pay attention to clear steps and accurate shooting. When you feel comfortable, you can find some slightly more difficult music and change the rhythm more quickly.
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Hip-hop is in full swing in colleges and universities. Its style, action modeling and technical skills show the characteristics of youth, fashion, novelty, dynamic, harmonious competition and positive progress, which clearly reflects contemporary college students' understanding of society, life and self. The entertainment, publicity, education, fitness and other functions of street dance play a great role in cultivating college students' sentiment, exercising their will, shaping their personality, strengthening their physique, improving their social skills and promoting their quality development. Through the practice of street dance, the purpose of developing intelligence, improving aesthetic taste and artistic accomplishment is achieved, so that college students dare to innovate and develop in an all-round way. Hip-hop, while constantly innovating and perfecting itself, has a far-reaching impact on promoting the construction of campus culture and improving the comprehensive quality of college students.
In fact, hip hop is the floorboard of all kinds of hip hop. In fact, what we call break dancing or old school is also a kind of hip hop. This ancient school dance includes locking. POPING (mechanical dance) BREAKING (break dance) WAVE (current).
The so-called street dance. This is the most popular street dance. From the perspective of dance, it can be divided into two categories: new school and old school. How to distinguish these two types? We can distinguish between age and action or music type.
New hip-hop is "original hip-hop". His unique style is that he pays attention to the coordination of the body (we call it rhythm). He attaches importance to the rhythm of the upper body and adds a lot of hand movements. No longer like old-school hip-hop, watch all kinds of movements and footwork. Michael Jackson's Remabe the time MTV is this so-called in-situ dance. In Mary Kelly's R&lover song MTV, a group of black people dance in a strange style, accompanied by B-style R&: HIP-HOP music. He is the origin of the new school sweeping the world.
In a word, the new hip-hop includes all kinds of hip-hops, including locking. Pop (Machine Dance) Wave (Stream) and the Rhythm in the Period of McHammer and bobby brown. I just can't see the shadow of break dancing in the new hip hop.