A Brief Background On Hip Hop Dance Moves

Hip Hop Dance as we know it these days, for instance the dancing we see in music videos is a fusion of a wide variety of standard and unconventional dance designs and methods. This consists of Jazz dance, indigenous folklore dance and even martial art.

Due to its robust nature, Urban Dance could be maybe a much more suitable title for what we generally classify as Hip Hop Dance. Regardless of the array of designs and methods added to its present repertoire, the roots of Hip Hop Dance can be attributed to street dancers in America. For numerous of these dancers, the art types they produced are the most correct classification of Hip Hop Dance.

Breaking & Funk Sytles

Throughout the 1970s, DJs in America would set an completely new trend, mixing what is known as drum breaks which are drum solos in funk and soul music back to back in between two turn tables. The outcome would produce an completely new sound containing a repetitive drum break track. In essence, the dancing that emerged from this new type of music was known as Breaking or B-boying (not break dancing). These types of breaking would consist of but are not exclsive to:

• Footwork - A series of actions executed with the feet each standing and on the floor prior to making energy moves.
• Energy Moves - A series of thoughts boggling movements commonly performed on the floor that would consist of moves such as backspins, headspins, windmills and much more. Commonly, when individuals hear around Breaking or b-boying or the incorrect term, "break dancing" they believe of these moves.
• Up Rock/Leading Rock - A series of movements following a particular rhythmic and systematic pattern.

Even though breaking was predominant between street dancers in the east coast, the west coast would nevertheless indulge in their own artform utilizing Funk and Soul music known as Funk Designs.

The birth of Funk Designs on the west coast, occurred inside the very same era as breaking and umbrellas an array of genres. The suite of designs would contain:

• Popping - Robotic and/or jerky movements. Strobbing and Ticking are also identical styles of movements inside the Popping loved ones.
• Waving - Fluid and smooth movements.
• Gliding/Floating - Gravity defying moves that produce the illusion as if a particular person is moving seemlessly and effortlessly across the floor.
• Locking - A series of animated movements that includes sharp and distinctive stances.
• Tutting - A series of movements emulating Egyptian Hieroglyphics.

This report was produced by Simone Maurice and can be reposted anyplace as extended as this and the infomation under is incorporated.

Simone Maurice is a certified dance instructor from Canada with more than 20 years knowledge in Hip Hop, Jazz, Tap, Modern day and Ballet. She has also performed and taught dance in numerous cities about the planet in individual, on tv and on the net at http://www.SimoneMaurice.com