Hip-hop dance includes many dance types, such as hiphop, popping, jazz, urban, locking, breaking and so on.
1. Locking
Locking (locking dance) originated in the 1960s and was invented by The Lockers team led by Don Cambell. It is the earliest hip-hop dance type. The main characteristics are the rapid rotation and pointing of the wrists and arms, the sudden freezing of the movements, and various techniques such as clapping, jumping and doing splits.
2. Popping
Popping (vibration dance) originated in the early 1970s, took shape in the mid-to-late 1970s, and emerged in different forms in San Francisco, California, on the West Coast of the United States. , Fresno, Oakland and other places, the original basic form is to use the technique of rapid contraction and relaxation of various parts of the muscles to produce a vibrating feeling in the dancer's body.
3. Breaking
Breaking originated in the 1970s and took shape in the Bronx, New York City in the 1980s. It is a difficult hip-hop dance. It pays attention to the combination of dance steps and skills, and is divided into four major contents: TopRock, Footwork, Freeze, and Powermove.
4. Hip-Hop
Hip-Hop (hip-hop dance) originated in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Hip-hop dance originally meant B-Boy, and later people Dance to the songs sung by the MC.
5. Jazz
Jazz (jazz dance) originated from the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was born in the southern port city of New Orleans. Its musical roots come from blues and raga. Ragtime. Jazz pays attention to improvisation, is based on the shuffle rhythm with swing characteristics, and is a combination of black African culture and white European culture.
6. Urban
Urban Dance is a choreographic form that combines a variety of dance types to express visual effects and connotations. Urban can combine the strengths of hundreds of schools. It can have the control of poppin, the power of power jazz, the footwork of house, and the rhythm of krump and lockin.