Urban Dance stylz explained - What is body poping, locking and bboying

Street Urban Dance Co tries to explain the differences between all of the various urban dance styles

Street dance is a fusion of various dance forms mixing together various elements from many different dances from old skool hip hop popping, locking and bboying (breakdance) to elements of jazz, contemporary and commercial dance making it into a very fast, physical , funky and exciting form of dance.

These days there is'nt a town in the UK that has a street dance or urban dance class. The great thing about this form of dance is that its very expressional in which no two teachers or choreographer teach the same thing providing a whole variety of styles and choreography for students to learn.

Anyone can be an amazing street dancer with time , patience, passion and whole lot of practice and sometimes it will be very challenging and hard work but guaranteed you will improve your fitness, self confidence and make some fantastic friends,

So to find out about the individual dance styles click on the below links.

What is bboying (aka breakdance)?

From the ghettos of New York city came bboying

Orginating from the streets fo New York in the 1970s bboying (or breakdance) is one of the physical and dynamic forms of dance consisting of up rocks, power moves and freezes.
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What is body popping? tutting? hitting?

From New York and Califonia came body popping in the 80s

Popping is one of the orginal hip hop dance styles where dancers contract their muscles to creat a popping effect. SUDC provides an explaination about what the art of popping, hitting and tutting is.
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What is krump dancing and clown dancing?

Out of the LA riots of 90's came clowning and krumping

Krumping developed out of South Central Los Angeles' clown dancing movement in 1992 by the legendary Tommy Johnson creating this atheletic and physical forms of dance.
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What is Old skool locking

Funky clothing, funky music learn about locking

Locking (originally Campbellocking) 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 basically means freezing from a fast movement and "locking" in a certain position.
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