Street dance is an umbrella term that includes various styles such as breakdancing, popping, locking, house dance, and waacking. These styles were created organically from culture and influenced by social interaction. Breakdancing incorporates acrobatic body movement and evolved from hip hop in the 1970s. Popping and locking involve tense and release muscle movements synchronized to beats. House dance emphasizes fast footwork and floor moves. Waacking uses wild arm movements around the head. Street dance emerged from popular culture outside dance studios and offered creative expression for underrepresented communities.

1. What is street dance?

2. Street dance
- is an umbrella term for a large number of social dance styles
such as: breakdancing, popping, locking, house dance, waacking etc. Social
dance styles have many accompanying steps and foundations, created
organically from a culture, a moment in time, a way of life, influenced by
natural social interaction.
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3. Breakdance
- is a style of street dancing that incorporates coordination,
acrobatic and intricate body movement, style, and aesthetics. It evolved from
the hip hop movement during the early 1970s and it is the most widely
known of all hip hop dance styles.
Popping
-this dance style is characterized by sudden tensing and releasing
of the muscles (“hitting”) to the rhythm of beats in music.

4. Locking
- is a style of funk dance, which is today also associated with hip hop.
The name is based on the concept of locking movements, which means freezing
from a fast movement and “locking” in a certain position, holding that position
for a short while and then continuing at the same speed as before.
House dance
- is often improvised and emphasize fast and complex foot-oriented
steps combined with well as floor work.

5. Waacking
- incorporates wild but controlled moves that follow the beat. Arm
movements up and around the head, in time with a disco or funk beat, characterize
waacking.
There is so many different moves or steps in street dancing.

6. What is the importance of street dance?
- The significant featured of the history of street
dance was that it was the dance of the young people. It offered
opportunities for creative expression, gave a sense of freedom and a ‘voice’
to unrepresented and often invisible communities through the means of
music and dance.

7. Street dance is a type of dance genre that came to being outside
the traditional dance studio. Street dance is often performed in
open and outdoor spaces such as streets, dance parties and park.
It is evolved from popular culture and social dance in America
during the 1970s and it has since spread internationally. It also more
formally described as vernacular dance, originated in New York in
the 1970s.

8. Street dancing also offers a great workout for the
body, with squats, turn and jumps stretching a
variety of muscles. Improvisation lies at the core of
street dancing, with participants allowing rhythmic
music to shape the movement of their bodies.