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What is street dance

What I do in my lessons

When street dance first started

My Competitions

Music

Clothing/Footwear

Word Search

What is street dance ?

Street dance is a dance style that was born outside dance studios. Street dance came from the streets, dance parties, block parties, parks, school yards, raves, and nightclubs.

Street dance is an umbrella

term used to describe many

different genres of street dance.

Some of these genres include,

hip hop, funk and the most popular

one being break dance or break dancing.

Some key words that describe

movements within street dance include, popping, locking, waving and krumping.

Within street dancing the groups of people that dance together are called crews. Once of the most famous crews in the world at the moment is a street dance group called Diversity. Since they won Britain's Got Talent they have blown up and now the whole world knows them.

Street dance has

become one of the

most popular genres

of dance in the 21st

century. (I think

it is the best genre of

dance also).

What do I do in my lessons ?

beggining

=We start off with a warm up e.g. jogging, jumping and stretching. We do a warm up to make sure that we don't stretch a muscle in our lessons.

Middle=

We then start off working on perfecting our routine. We learn many different moves that we put together to make the routine. Once we have learnt all the moves for the routine we repeat them until we get them in time as a group.

Ending=We then end the lesson with a warm down where we jog and stretch to ensure our muscles so they do not ache the next day.

Once we have perfected our routine we work towards performing it at competitions against other groups with their routines.

When street dance first started?

Street dance first originatedin New York in the 1970s and people started to perform it in the big city after practising on the streets then it spread on to the streets off Manhattan. It started off with an improvised routine on the streets. It reacted as traditional high dance styles.

The main person who influenced street dance was called Don Campell, who invented the lock which we now know as locking (a sub genre of street dance). It was first made in a club and there were funk dancers and one off the dancers was supposedly Don. He was part of group called the Lockers.

The Lockers were very famous for the love off locking this dance group was formed by Toni Basil and Don Campbell. They performed a lot of routines and they were a very inspiring group.

My competitions

I have only joined the dance crew recently. At first when my crew were going on stage I was very scared but they were all used to it. We performed in the street dance championships in Essex in September 2017; overall in the competition we came 3rd and we were astonished. The competition was a joy to be at. I also have the amazing opportunity to take part in BRITAIN'S GOT TALENT 2018. All of my crew are so excited and I am too.

Clothing/footwear

FOOTWEAR=When you are dancing you must wear the correct footwear. You should either wear trainers or old shoes NOT heels, or very pretty shoes that you don't want to scratches on. Do NOT wear shoes that you are uncomfortable in.

CLOTHING=

When you are dancing you should NOT be wearing a pretty dress. You should be wearing tracksuit bottoms with a top that you would be comfortable in. Do NOT wear a sequinned top that could rub you.

Mu ic

In street dance the dance routine must flow with the music, so selecting the correct music is extremely important. If your music does not flow with your routine your dance won't either. When I dance in my classes my dance teacher makes sure the beat and the tempo of the music always matches up with the routine.

GAMES

DANCE

TRAINERS

MUSIC

CREW

COMPETITION

LOCKING

POPPING

TEMPO

BEAT

WARM UP

JOG

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