Street dance introduction

A street dance group dancing among the spectators.

Street dance, more formally known as vernacular dance is a general term to describe different kinds of dance styles, which have evolved in open places, such as streets, parks, school yards, raves and nightclubs. It's a nature and social dance, because it's easy to see the contact between the dancers and the spectators. Street dance includes break dance, shuffle, tecktonik, popping, locking, roboting, krumping...

Here you can see a short description of the most common street dance styles:

-Break dance, also known as breaking or b-boying, includes part of the movements of hip hop. Breaking is one of the four elements of Hip Hop culture, the other three are MCing (rapping), DJing (Disc jockey) and graffiti. 

-Popping is the fast contraction and relaxation of muscles to which is done continuously to the beat of a song in combination with other types of movements of mime. 

-Locking is characterized by fast and different hand and arm movements combined with more relaxed movements of legs and hips. The movements are usually long and exaggerated, often rhythmic and synchronized with music. The movements consists of freezing after a quick move to get to a concrete position or holding for a short period of time and then continue with the same speed as before. It includes acrobatic movements.