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WHAT IS STREET DANCE? |
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Street dance is used to describe dance styles that developed outside of dance studios on the streets, in schoolyards and at nightclubs.
Street dancers often make up the routine as they go, and encourage the crowd and the other dancers to interact with them.
Street dance is also used to describe all the hip hop and funk dance styles that began appearing in the United States in the 1970s. Most of these styles such as breakdance, popping, locking, hip hop new style and house dance, are still alive and evolving within the hip hop culture of today, and are seen regularly in music videos.
More recently, new street dance styles are emerging that are further inspired by hip hop and its music. Krumping, with its focus on highly energetic battles and movements, is a recent example that has become publicly known. It's also common to see some characteristics of street dance being mixed with other more traditional dance forms, creating styles such as street jazz, a hybrid of modern hip hop styles and jazz dance. Such styles are generally focused more on choreography and performance and less on improvisation and battles, and are not always considered pure street dances, but rather a popular alternative to the more traditional and classical styles of studio dancing. Though some of these styles originally evolved separately, most of them are today associated with the hip hop scene, as they share many street dance elements.
Street dance can be used as a form of exercise, for street cred, or in competition. Today, serious street dance competitions are increasingly popular, and a number of large annual international events are taking place around the world, such as Battle of the Year and Juste Debout. These contests focus mainly on judged battles but also on choreographed shows.
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