What kind of dance is street dance?

Street dance is a folk dance originated in the black urban poor groups in the United States, street dance was born in the late 1960s, in the 1970s it was summarized as part of hip-hop culture, and graffiti, beatboxing, rap, these contemporaneous generation of the black underground culture and known as the four elements of hip-hop. Street dance was born simultaneously and independently in the East Coast city of New York and the West Coast state of California, eventually influencing each other and merging into one. Japanese youth quickly mastered and developed street dance. The achievements of Japanese street dancers were recognized by Americans, who spread the culture to neighboring regions such as South Korea and Taiwan, China.

In the 1980s the American street dance movie "Breakdance" was introduced to China, which had a huge impact on us, and as a result a large number of dancers of a fairly high level appeared in mainland China at almost the same time as in the United States. Since the mid-1990s, street dance has been gradually spreading in mainland China, centering on the cities of Guangzhou, Shanghai and Beijing. Influenced by Hong Kong and Taiwan, street dance and its hip-hop culture appeared earlier in Guangzhou and quickly spread throughout the province. Zhengzhou, Wuhan, Shenyang, Chongqing and Kunming were the most active.

There are many different kinds of street dance, but each kind of dance is not completely independent, and many movements are fused with the styles of each kind of dance, and the same style can be embodied in different kinds of dance with different movements. It is for this reason that all styles of street dance have emerged in various street dance events. The common types of street dance can be divided into ten types. They are locking, popping, breaking, hiphop, house, reggage, krump, waacking, turfing, and jazz, but of course, there are smaller categories for each of these. Currently, the most popular types of dances practiced in dance studios across the country are hiphop, popping, breaking and jazz; hiphop and jazz are mostly for female dancers, while popping and breaking are mostly for male dancers