What are the types of street dance?

Common types of street dance - Locking (Locking), Popping (Shock Dance), Breaking (Break Dance), Hip-Hop (Hip-Hop), Reggae, Dancehall (Reggae), Clown, Krump (Clown Dance), Waacking, Punking, Voguing, JAZZ and so on.

1, Lock Dance

Lock Dance originated in the 60s and was invented by The Lockers, a team led by Don Cambell. Lock Dance relies on fast, pronounced arm and hand movements, paired with more relaxed hips and legs. The movements are usually big and exaggerated, often rhythmic and closely aligned with the music.

2, shock dance

Shock dance, also known as the mechanical dance, originated in the early 1970s molded in the mid-to-late 1970s, in different forms in the west coast of the United States, California, San Francisco, Fresno, Oakland, etc., the origin and invention of a certain controversy. Shock dance is a style of funk dance and street dance, the initial basic form is to borrow the skill of rapid muscle contraction and relaxation, so that the dancer's body produces the feeling of vibration, this skill is called Pop.

3, Breakdance

Breakdance, also known as Breakdance, b-boying, b-girl) is a personal style of the main skillful street dance dance, but also the earliest of the North American street dance, originated in the Bronx in the United States in the 1970s. As a representative dance in the traditional Breaking culture, Breaking is mainly composed of several different types of dance elements, such as Toprock, Footwork, Powermove, Freeze, and Flip.

4. Reggae

Reggae music was formed in Jamaica around 1968. In the 1960s, American music engineers emerged and guided a form of musical expression. Its roots came from New Orleans R&B. Jamaican musicians at the time developed their own R&B music based on the fast-paced New Orleans R&B they heard on the radio. This type of music, known as ska, was quite popular in the 1960s.

5, hip-hop dance

Hip-hop dance from New York, USA. The dance posture is free and dynamic, and it shows the youthful personality. Hip-hop dance hiphop is the most representative action UP Down, C-walk, Shake combination of extremely rich changes. And through the head, neck, shoulders, upper limbs, torso and other joints of flexion and extension, rotation, around the ring, swing vibration, wavy twisting and other coherent combination, each action has its own specific fitness effect.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia - Street Dance