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What are the types of street dance? What are the characteristics?
1. Lock (Lock Dance)

Originated in the 1960s and invented by the Lockers team led by Don Cambell, it is the earliest street dance. The rapid rotation and pointing of the wrist and arm, the sudden freeze of the action, accompanied by various techniques such as clapping, jumping and splitting are its main characteristics.

2. Jumping (impact dance)

Originated in the early 1970s and formed in the middle and late 1970s, it rose in different forms in San Francisco, Fresno, Oakland and other places 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.

Step 3 break dance

Originated in the 1970s and formed in the 1980s, Bronx, new york, USA, is a kind of street dance with high difficulty, which pays more attention to the combination of dance steps and skills, and is divided into four parts: top rock, footwork, freeze-frame and Powermove.

4.hip hop (hip hop)

Originated in the late 1980s and early 1990s, it is the second kind of street dance after break dancing, and now it is a widely popular type of street dance. Hip-hop originally meant B-Boy, and later people danced with the songs sung by MC, so hip-hop is actually B-Boy, which is the origin of hip-hop.

Step 5: house

Formed in the 1980s and 1990s, it has widely absorbed various dance elements such as break dance, Hiphop, Salsa, Tap and ballet. And formed a rich and brisk rhythm changes to express the dance types of house dance music, which are divided into three categories: jacking, footwork and lofting.

6. Reggae and Ballroom (Reggae)

This dance 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 warm and wild movements and a lot of sexual hints.

7. Clowns and Krump (Clown Dance)

It was invented by Tommy the Clown in the early 1990s. It dances as a clown, and its style is similar to Hiphop, but it is more wild and exaggerated. His disciples Lil C, Tight Eyez and others left the team to start a business. They have made a lot of changes to the clown dance, which is called Krump, which symbolizes the powerful praise of the golden radial uplift, and interprets it as a dance to praise God by venting and subliming the negative emotions in the heart through intense movements.

8. Swing dance

Formed in the 1970s, it was originally a stage dance for gay men in underground gay bars on the west coast of the United States. Disco and funk music are expressed by a lot of spinning, waving arms and coquettish gestures and walking. Punking originally refers to Waacking performed by Locking dancers, while Voguing is a form in which Waacking expresses house music on the east coast of the United States and particularly highlights the sense of pose of models.

9. spread turf

Appearing on the west coast of the United States, it is characterized by nonhuman fractures of the arm at the joints such as shoulders, and a large number of styles and techniques such as Popping, Robot, Wave, Kingtut, Slide, Slowmotion, and the body rotation and turnover of ballet, Breaking and other dances are used, forming a strange and exaggerated new type of street dance.

10. Jazz (jazz dance)

Jazz dance is a fast and dynamic rhythmic dance, which belongs to extroverted dance, unlike the introverted dance shown by classical ballet or modern dance. As a kind of hip-hop dance, contemporary jazz has been given different names, such as street jazz, jazz Funk, La Style, Lastyle hip-hop and Urban Dance. Different jazz choreographers direct the creation.

Extended information on the origin of street dance

Street dancing, which was born in the late 1960s, is the dance of the urban poor in black America. In 1970s, it was classified as a part of hip-hop culture, with strong performance, participation and competitiveness.

1992 at the beginning, there was a kind of "in-situ hip-hop", without those big moves and footwork movements, not to mention the ground movements similar to gymnastics in break dancing. Its unique style lies in paying attention to the coordination of the body, attaching importance to the rhythm of the upper body, and adding a lot of head and hand movements. We can see this new dance style in Michael Jackson, Maria Kelly and Backstreet Boys's MTV.

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Baidu encyclopedia-hip hop dance