Hip-hop is a street culture developed by African-Americans, and it is a kind of exercise to vent emotions. It is characterized by strong explosive force, and the movements of limbs are exaggerated compared with other dances. The most attractive thing is to bring a warm feeling with the vitality of the whole body.
Hip-hop makes people pay attention, have strong interest, and act beautifully and casually. At the same time, street dance also has the function of slimming, because street dance is a low-intensity aerobic exercise, and the function of consuming whole body fat is quite strong in an hour's exercise. In addition, street dance is a small muscle exercise. Regular practice can increase the coordination of your whole body and make your body proportion more standard.
classify
Based on action, hip-hop can be divided into two categories: hip-hop and break dancing. Street dance can generally be divided into two types, one is personal skill street dance. Personal Skills Hip-hop is the earliest popular hip-hop because it can reflect the energetic side of young people. Many of their ground movements, such as somersault, handstand and bouncing, are high-skilled personal hip-hop performances. The other is group street dance, which is a popular form of street dance at present. It reflects the needs of the public, and it is relatively simple to jump and has a strong sense of rhythm. It has both the feeling of dancing and the function of fitness. Therefore, collective street dance is more common at present.
Open circuit:
Skillful street dance requires dancers to have high strength, flexibility and coordination. It is a highly skilled sports dance, so it was first loved by domestic teenagers. Teenagers who dance this type of dance are called B-Boy/B-Girl.
In 1980s, DJ Kool Herc, known as the "father of hip-hop", created the concept of B-Boy, also known as Breaking Boy. Every year, many countries in the world hold some competitions for B-Boys, the most famous of which are the annual BOTY (Battle of the Year) and the B-Boys Championship held in Britain. Hundreds of players from more than 65,438+00 countries will take part in such activities. The winner of the competition will soon become famous and become the star of teenagers.
Hip hop music:
The Chinese translation of the word hip-hop is Hip-Hop, which was born in new york 1974 and was invented by Starski, a famous DJ and MC lover. At the end of 1960s and the beginning of 1970s, a series of black cultural and artistic forms appeared in American East Coast cities headed by new york, including graffiti or writing, B-Boying, record playing (DJ or Deejay, DJ means disc jockey, that is, the person who controls records) and rap (MCing or MC).
The word Hip-Hop was originally rhymed by love bug Starski in rap. Hip means ass, and Hop means jumping. Together, it can be interpreted as jumping ass. In the early 1980s, Affri Bambaataa, the godfather of hip-hop, borrowed the word hip-hop to refer to the black urban cultural movement represented by the above four cultural forms, and it was quickly and widely accepted. The above four cultures became the four elements of hip-hop.
Hip-hop is translated into hip-hop and rap is translated into rap. These two concepts are different. Hip-Hop is actually not a musical term, but a cultural term, including rap, graffiti, street dance and DJ disc playing. Singing originated in the 1960s, while hip-hop as a musical understanding originated in the early 1970s. Its predecessor is RAP (sometimes with a little R(B)).
Literally, Hip-Hop is Hip, Hop is hop, and together it is Hip-waking. At first, it refers to the budding hip-hop (that is, we used to talk about break dancing), and then it gradually developed into a huge concept-the hip-hop culture we are talking about now also includes loose clothes, heavy pure gold ornaments, and "YoYo?" What's the matter? "Oral habits-in short, it is the lifestyle and their" style "of black people in poor neighborhoods in the United States.
There are many styles of dancing street dance, 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. Good hip-hop dancers also need to practice hard. Because street dance is not as skillful and competitive as breaking, it has not been paid enough attention by street dance lovers before. Now with the enhancement of dance concept, this situation has changed, and even B-Boy has begun to practice, and many all-round hip-hop players have appeared.
Hip-hop is a kind of dance that people often contact. It has big and simple steps, and can show a complex sense of dance. Because it is easy to learn and beautiful to jump, it is very popular with the public.
POPING:
Mechanical dance, using the muscles and joints of all parts of the body, with the beat of music and rich imagination, creates amazing dance steps. It belongs to the more difficult street dance type.
Freestyle:
This is a great dance step, mixing all kinds of dances together and performing at will. There is no limit to the style of dance, which is out of the norm of general dance. It can be said that it is personalized street dance.
House:
With House music, a kind of dance step is complicated and magical, which can be combined with the basic dance steps of Latin dance, martial arts somersault, tap dance and ballet circle. It can be elegant or quite wild.
New Jazz (for girls only):
This is a dance developed from jazz, specially for girls to dance. It pays great attention to femininity and instant bursting. Give priority to with arm movements, supplemented by waist twisting hip movements. It requires a high figure and is very popular in Europe, America and South Korea. Music is rhythm jazz.
RAGREA (reggae, only for girls):
It is said that this dance originated in France, and some people say that it originated in the United States. It's a sexy dance, and the dancers are naked, mainly using the movements of the lower body, mainly using the hips, waist and legs. There will be some simple handstands and shaking the thighs in the air. It has developed well in Japan, where the porn industry is developed. And normal interpretation is sexy.
Hip-hop is in China.
Teenagers in China first came into contact with street dance from the American film "Break Dance" in 1980s, when the break dance was the predecessor of the current break dance. With the deepening of China teenagers' understanding of hip-hop, they gradually return to the origin of hip-hop and practice hip-hop in China with their own vision and characteristics.
In addition to early break dancing, teenagers all over the country began to practice street dance in the mid-1990s. In Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, street dance started earlier because of the developed information. In Zhengzhou, Henan Province, because of the close relationship between martial arts culture in the Central Plains and street dance, break dancing also started earlier. Nowadays, teenagers are practicing street dance all over the country, and they can get together for training in the street squares of various cities. They also often organize small competitions (fighting, ballastless dancing/spell dancing), and the dancers with the best kung fu can win the respect of many teenagers.
Teenagers' enthusiasm for street dance has led to a large number of applications of street dance from culture and art to commercial advertisements. We can see that in the music videos of Jay Chou, Jordan chan, Elva Hsiao, Wen Lan and many other famous artists, the heroic stamping of the courtyard frequently appears. The commercial advertising circles of Nike, Li Ning, Season 5, Huiyuan, Gemdale, Nokia and other brands adopt hip-hop modeling, which frequently bombards the vision of young consumers. At the beginning of 2003, Notre Dame de Paris, a dance drama staged in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, used a lot of street dance moves and formed a unique cultural landscape.
With the rise of national fitness activities, street dance, as a fitness sport, has also entered the fitness centers of major cities. Many professional practitioners of dance, drama and acrobatics also began to practice street dance, which is widely spread in various art colleges. On the university campus, many dance clubs have been organized to practice street dance. It is common for middle school students to engage in street dance activities in their spare time, and a unique youth community culture has been formed in residential quarters in major cities. Five sports channels of CCTV set up hip-hop teaching programs as early as a few years ago (although pure hip-hop is not taught), and three dance worlds also broadcast invited hip-hop special programs shot by the North Ballroom before the Spring Festival in 2003. As a popular cultural and sports activity among teenagers, street dance has been widely spread throughout the country.
What should I pay attention to when practicing street dance for the first time?
Beginners of street dance must not increase the amount of exercise at once, but step by step. Usually do warm-up activities first, fully exercise all joints and ligaments of the body, especially knees and ankles, to avoid injury when jumping; Then enter a certain intensity and time of practice, preferably not less than 30 minutes; Finally, use various stretching exercises to relax the body. Only in this way can we achieve better slimming effect.
Because everyone's age, physique and health are different, everyone's exercise intensity is also different. "Exercise intensity" is generally expressed as "maximum heart rate", so you should calculate the most suitable heart rate when dancing street dance:
If you are 25 years old and don't often take part in physical exercise, and your physical fitness is average, then your maximum heart rate is 220-25 = 195, and the appropriate exercise intensity (exercise heart rate) should be (60-75%) ×195 =195.