Jazz dance appeared in the mid-1950s and evolved from black ballroom dancing with jazz music. It absorbs the elements and skills of ballet, modern dance, street dance and Latin dance, and wants to express fiery amorous feelings.

However, Hip-hop originated in the Bronx (community name), a lower-class black community in new york, USA in the 1970s. It is a "street culture" deduced from an African-American movement to vent their emotions. In the daily training of professional cheerleaders, this kind of street dance is often used to train athletes' comprehensive qualities such as coordination and expressiveness, and sometimes it is also used for performance. Some people call it "the only sport that makes people smile and train."

The difference between street dance and jazz dance;

Technical characteristics: Jazz and hip-hop have the same characteristics, requiring strong explosiveness, good coordination of limbs, and very high requirements for dance difficulty skills. They have a great training effect on the head, shoulders, buttocks and other parts, and they are all exercises for training small muscle groups.

However, primitive jazz is characterized by stage art that expresses emotions and entertains others. Jazz dance has a sense of lines, stretching movements and an upward center of gravity. However, the early street dance was simply to vent the dancers' emotions, and it was an art that existed in life to entertain itself. Hip-hop is a dynamic rhythm, with twisted movements and a downward body center of gravity. When these two kinds of dances are dancing, the body movements are more exaggerated than other dances, and the attraction is that they both bring warm feelings with full body vitality.

Classification:

The classification of jazz dance includes Latin jazz, modern jazz, dramatic jazz, classical jazz and ballet jazz.

Hip-hop includes several categories: at present, there are mainly poppin, Hip-hop, locking, breaking, house, newstyle, kurmp, regge and so on.

Now the two dances absorb each other, and hip-hop absorbs the style of jazz dance, forming the hip-pop jazz.