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What are the manifestations of street dance?
According to the form of performance, street dance is generally divided into two categories: individual skill street dance and group street dance.

1, personal skills Street dance is the earliest popular street dance. It can reflect the youthful spirit of young people, and there are many ground movements, such as somersault, handstand and bounce. It is a high-tech and ornamental street dance performance. This type of street dance requires dancers to have good flexibility and coordination. Teenagers who dance this type of dance are called B-Boy/B-Girl.

2. Group street dance is a popular form of street dance. It not only embodies the needs of the public, but also is relatively simple to jump and has a strong sense of rhythm. It has both the feeling of dancing and the function of fitness.

1, lock (lock dance)

Originated in the 1960s, it was invented by the Lockers team led by Don Cambell, belonging to the earliest street dance. The main features are the rapid rotation and pointing of wrists and arms, the sudden freezing of movements, and various techniques such as clapping, jumping and splitting. As the earliest street dance, it gradually developed into a mechanical dance in1980s.

2. Jumping (impact dance)

Originated in the early 1970s and shaped 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 trembling.

Step 3: Swing dance

Formed in 1970s, it used to be a stage dance for gay men in underground gay bars on the west coast of the United States, expressing disco and funk music with a lot of rotating arms waving and coquettish posture and walking. 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.

4. Turf

Appearing on the west coast of the United States, it is mainly manifested in the non-human arm twisting at the joints such as shoulders, which combines a lot of styles and techniques such as Popping, Robot, Wave, Kingtut, Slide, Slowmotion, and the body rotation and overturning movements of ballet, Breaking and other dances, forming a strange and exaggerated new street dance.

5.hip hop (hip hop)

It began to appear in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It is the second street dance after the break, and it is also a popular street dance. At first, it originally meant B-Boy. Later, some people danced with the songs sung by MC, so hip-hop is actually a later saying. B-Boy is the origin of hip-hop music.

6. Break dancing

Originated in 1970s and formed in 1980s in Bronx, new york, it is a kind of street dance with high difficulty. It attaches great importance to the combination of dance steps and techniques, which can be divided into top stone, footwork, freeze frame and Powermove.

7. Clowns and Krump (Clown Dance)

Invented by Tommy The Clown in the early 1990s, it dances as a clown, with a style similar to Hiphop, but more wild and exaggerated. After their disciples Lil C, Tight Eyez and others left the team, they began to stand on their own feet and made many changes to crow dance. Finally, they call it Krump, which means the kingdom's radical and powerful praise, and interpret it as a dance to vent negative emotions and sublimate praise to God through intense movements.

8. House

Formed in the 1980s and 1990s, it widely absorbed many different dance elements, such as break dance, Hiphop, Salsa, Tap and ballet, and formed a kind of house dance with rich and brisk pace changes, which can be divided into three categories: lift, footwork and lofting.

9. Reggae and Ballroom (Reggae)

Originated in Jamaica, with the spread and development of reggae music in France and the United States, it began to enter popular culture and public vision. Its movements are full of passion and wildness, with a lot of sexual hints.