With the evolution of music types, Hip Hop has gradually added many new elements from the original breaking, locking and popping, and has evolved into today's Hip Hop. Today's hiphop can be roughly divided into the following categories:
Breaking: break dancing. Dances that have more contact with the ground, focusing on individual uniqueness and strength performance, are the earliest Hip Hop dances. Combine power move, freeze, footwork and up/top rock.
Popping: mechanical dancing. Another early Hip Hop dance is characterized by the relaxation and contraction of muscles and the impact of joints. It is subdivided into poping, wave, king tic ting, electric boogie, etc.
Locking: lock dance. It is also a Hip Hop dance with a long history, which is characterized by the flexible high-speed rotation of the wrist and the sudden stop of the action.
House: a dance that appeared in the post-198s, which is a mixture of African indigenous dance and Latin dance, plus European tap dance. It is characterized by fast and smooth kicking of the feet, emphasizing the rhythm of the body.
Free Style: As the name implies, it is a very free dance method that closely follows the latest Hip Hop dance trend. It integrates all Hip Hop dances and dances with music. There is no specific dance method, and it emphasizes coordination with music.
Girls' HipHop: a term originated from Japanese hip hop. It is a Free Style HipHop dance with some feminine movements in Jazz dance and some characteristics of Brazilian samba dance. In recent years, it has been widely welcomed by teenage dancers in Asia.
Jazz: jazz dance. Jazz dance originated from classical ballet in Europe, and developed into modern dance in the later period. Coupled with the evolution of music, pop music became popular and became today's jazz dance. Jazz pop dance can be divided into the following categories:
Street Jazz, a jazz dance with the elements of street Hip Hop dance, is an immortal version, and can be used in today's pop songs and music, so it is very popular;
Modern Jazz, which combines the characteristics of ballet and modern dance, is more artistic and requires more skill, which can make the dancer's body stretch better and give priority to soft music.
Pop Jazz, with pop music as the guide, changeable dance steps, emphasizing the combination of strength and form, is more commercial, and its main purpose is stage performance. The rhythm is fast and requires a sense of stage performance.