Beginners should first know that there are many kinds 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! Do some training, such as:
Physical exercise: push-ups, sit-ups, pull-ups, sitting/standing forward, etc.
Balance exercise: handstand;
Flexibility exercises: pulling ligaments, opening shoulders, etc.
Basic rhythm: music, up and down, etc.
Extended data:
Hip-hop originated in the United States, which is a general term for many different kinds of 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 walks, runs and jumps, including joints such as head, neck, shoulders, upper limbs and trunk, such as flexion and extension, rotation, circle, sparkling, wave-like twisting, etc. 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.
From the action form, street dancers can be divided into two categories: dancer and Bboy(BGIRL).
From the form of performance, 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 somersaults and handstand jumps, are street dance performances with strong skills and high appreciation.
Group 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 the wrist and arm, the sudden freeze of the action, 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 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.
Breaking originated in 1970s, and was formed in Bronx, new york, USA in 1980s. It is a kind of street dance with higher difficulty, which pays more attention to the combination of dance steps and skills. It is divided into four parts: top rock, footwork, freeze frame and Powermove.
Hip-Hop (hip-hop) originated in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and it is the second hip-hop after the break. Hip-hop originally meant B-Boy, and later people danced with songs sung by MC, so it was actually later that B-Boy was the origin of hip-hop.
House was formed in 1980s and 1990s, and widely absorbed various dance elements such as break dance, Hiphop, Salsa, Tap and ballet. And formed a variety of dances to express House dance music with rich and brisk pace changes, which are divided into three categories: jacking, footwork and lofting.
Reggae and Dancehall originated in Jamaica. With the spread and development of reggae music in France and the United States, they began to enter popular culture and public view, and their actions were enthusiastic and wild, with 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 in style, but more wild and exaggerated. His disciples lil' c and Tight.
Eyez and others left the team to start a business. They changed the clown dance a lot, and called it Krump, which means the kingdom was completely promoted.
Mighty praise, and interpreted as a dance to praise God by venting and subliming negative emotions through intense movements.
Waacking, Punking and Voguing were formed 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 gestures and walks. 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.
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 the body rotation and turnover of ballet, Breaking and other dances.
JAZZ (jazz dance) Jazz dance is a fast and dynamic 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 hip-hop dance, has been given different names, such as street jazz, jazz Funk, La Style, Lastyle hip-hop and Urban Dance.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-hip hop dance