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Overview of Street Dance Styles

Street dancing originated in the 1970s in the United States with styles like breaking, popping, and locking developing in cities among social groups rather than in studios, and includes newer forms like krumping and house dancing. These styles typically occur in outdoor urban spaces like streets, clubs, and parks rather than formal venues. Common street dance styles include locking, hip-hop, popping, house, and breaking, with dancers often developing unique personal styles of dress rather than conforming to commercial styles.

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Overview of Street Dance Styles

Street dancing originated in the 1970s in the United States with styles like breaking, popping, and locking developing in cities among social groups rather than in studios, and includes newer forms like krumping and house dancing. These styles typically occur in outdoor urban spaces like streets, clubs, and parks rather than formal venues. Common street dance styles include locking, hip-hop, popping, house, and breaking, with dancers often developing unique personal styles of dress rather than conforming to commercial styles.

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Rosalyn Therese S.

Rayos
10 – Easter Lily
P.E.
Free Style
B. Discuss the following about street dancing:
1. History - “Streetdance” was a term coined originally to describe dances
that developed outside of the studio setting and in a social space like
streets, clubs and parks. The original street dances in include Breaking,
Popping and Locking. Younger forms of streetdance include Krumping
and House. The term “street dance” or “street dancing” came later, along
with the terms “breakdancing” and “poplocking”, when these dances were
popularised in the mainstream in the 1980s. People who practiced these
dances did not originally call themselves “street dancers” or their dances
“street dancing”. In fact, these dances originated at different times and
places. For example, Breaking is said to have evolved in the 1970s in New
York with its roots in older dance forms such as The Rock Dance from the
1960s, whereas Popping originated in California in the late 1960s. People
who were Breaking called themselves Bboys or Bgirls or sometimes
Breakers. People who were Popping called themselves Poppers. People
who were Locking called themselves Lockers. Sometimes Lockers and
Poppers call themselves Funkstylers.

2. Venue - Street dance is an umbrella term for dance styles that have their
origin on the streets. Depending on who you ask, you'll get a wider or
narrower range of dances that are considered street dances. A common
interpretation is that street dances are the dance forms that originated in the
urban areas of the United States and are considered to be part of hip-hop,
funk and club culture.

3. Apparel Used - When you start a street dance style – whether that is
bboying (breakdancing), popping, locking or any other street dance –
you’ll may find yourself wanting to wear whatever street dance clothes
other people in the class are wearing, or the clothes you may have seen
worn by street dancers you watch on TV or YouTube. But the truth is that
real street dance (as supposed to the commercial, MTV-video type dance
that is sometimes passed off as street dance or “Commercial hip hop”) is
about being yourself and being unique. So, many students of street dance
styles find that the longer they are into their chosen street dance discipline,
the more personal and unique their style gets.

4. Dance Styles - The most common street-dance styles are: locking, hip-hop
(aka hip-hop freestyle or new style), popping, house (aka house dance) and
breaking (aka B-Boying or its media-created name breakdancing).

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