6 styles of urban dances for you to know

The urban dances are dance modalities related to hip hop culture, which emerged in the New York ghettos in the 60s and 70s.

These aspects are known as "street dances", more currently the term more correct is urban dances or street dance.

Raised by the peripheral and young population of the USA, they win the world. With the character of protest and entertainment, these demonstrations have in their origin a strong identity symbol of Afro-American and Latino culture, still becoming a lifestyle.

In Brazil, the urban dances began in the 80s, made by means of films and music stars such as Michael Jackson and Madonna, also becoming part of the Brazilian peripheral culture.

1. Breakdancing or breaking

The breaking is one of the two most famous styles of hip hop culture. It is characterized by many jumps, turns, chão movements, pirouettes and torções. Likewise, his followers, called b-boys or b-girls, need a lot of muscular strength and good body conditioning.

In Brazil, one of the two pioneers of breaking was Nelson Triunfo, a dancer and social activist who promoted hip hop in the country.

There are several championships for this aspect of dance and in 2024 it will start as a modality of the Paris Olympic Games.

2. locking

This style of dance was idealized by Don "Campbellock" Campbell, being one of the first modalities of street dance, giving rise to others, such as popping.

It was the end of the 1960s when Don created steps that would turn into lockdown, dancing to the two funk bands that dominated dinner, like James Brown and Funkadelic,

The characteristics of this dance are travamento movements, as the name itself suggests (the translation of locking is "date", "travamento").

3. popping

Called popper, or dancer or dancer of this style used to muscle contraction and relaxation, performed in the rhythm of music, to create movements that suggest illusionism, leaving the public impressed.

A translation of thermo popping is something like "estourando", or that it is related to the movement of contraction of two muscles, as they are estivessem, de facto, estourando.

Later he was born in the 70s by more than Boogaloo Sam, a dancer who also created another style, or Boogaloo. Since then, steps have been included and enhanced and now they are exhibited in championships, entitled Batalhas.

4. Dance Vogue

Dance Vogue was raised in New York by the Black and Latino LGBTQ community.

strongly inspired by fashion, this dance gathers characteristics that suggest poses and "faces and mouths", also reaffirming the sexual identity of a historically marginalized group.

There are many hand and arm movements in vogue dance, also counting with some crouching and child movements.

In 1990 Madonna lançou to music Vogue, that he traced in his clip a dance, thus contributing so that it was known.

5. Waacking

Waacking is a dance derived from "locking" and also emerged at the same time, in the 70s. This style has many characteristics of "vogue", also drawing Cheios Glamor Moves and inspired by model poses.

Its emergence coincides with the time of disco music in the US and also originated from the LGBTQ community.

6. house dance

valuing improvisationHouse dance has as its characteristic a combination of more organic movements of the trunk with rapid movements of the legs.

Emerging also in North American solo, this is a junction of modalities of urban dances, but also other styles such as salsa, jazz and even capoeira.

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