Source: South China Translation Market
Recently "This! "Just Street Dance" is currently on the air. The contestants' superb street dance skills in the show are amazing, and the tense atmosphere during "battle" makes people sweat for them.
But there are still many English learners who focus on the English words "locking", "breaking", "waacking" and other English words flashing on the screen when the dancer dances. Let's learn the words related to street dance together.
Street Dance/Street dancing Street dance
Street Dance was born in the late 1960s. It is part of the hip-hop culture of the black urban poor in the United States. It is highly performative, participatory and competitive.
Example sentence: A street dance is a dance style regardless of country of origin.
Street dance is a dance style that goes beyond national boundaries. Several categories of street dance:
1. Locking Locking
Locking originated in the 1960s and is the earliest type of street dance. Its main features are the rapid rotation and direction of the wrist and arms, the sudden freeze of movement, accompanied by various clapping, jumping and splits.
Example sentence: The name Locking comes from the concept of a "lock" action, which basically means to freeze from a very rapid movement, then stop and maintain specific position, and then continue to the original speed.
Locking The name Locking comes from the concept of a "lock" action, which basically means to freeze from a very rapid movement, which basically means to freeze from a very rapid movement, then stop and maintain specific position, and then continue to restore to the original speed.
2. Popping Vibration Dance
Popping originated in the 1970s and emerged in Ganesh, West Bank, USA in different forms. It is a style in Funk and Street Dance. The initial basic form was to make the dancer's body vibrate through the technique of rapid contraction and relaxation of muscles in various parts.
Example sentence: Popping is first seen in the 1968 movie "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" during a scene where actress and singer Sally Anne Howes acts as a music box doll.
In the 1968 movie "Flying Universal Car", actress and singer Sally Anne House performed a shock dance for the first time in the image of a music box doll.
3. Breaking/ B-boying Breaking dance
Breaking originated in the 1970s and was formed in the 1980s. It is a difficult street dance type. It attaches great importance to the combination of dance steps and skills. It is divided into four major contents: TopRock, Footwork, Freeze, and powermove.
Example: A practicer of breaking is called a b-boy, b-girl, or breaker.
The dancer of breaking dance is called B-boy, B-girl or destroyer.
4. Jazz jazz
JAZZ is a rapid and dynamic rhythmic dance, which is an extroverted dance, unlike classical ballet or modern dance.
Example sentence: One person named W.Benton Overstreet wrote a song called "The Jazz Dance", and the "Jazz Dance" in this song became a permanent synonym for jazz dance.
There was a man named W.Benton Overstreet who wrote a song called "The Jazz Dance", and the "Jazz Dance" in this song became the permanent synonym of jazz dance dance.
5. Urban Dance Urban choreography
Urban dance is the choreography form in street dance, which is to arrange the dance in routines, emphasizing personal style.
Example: The Urban Dance Cam is the perfect event to present dance skills to a worldwide choreography-oriented audience, to get new inspirations for your own choreography and to get opportunities to meet new international partners.
Urban Choreography Summer Camp is the perfect event to present dance skills to global dance-oriented audiences, providing new inspiration for your choreography and having the opportunity to meet new international partners.
6. Waacking Hand-Shake Dance
Waacking is a Freestyle dance, which was originally performed by male dancers dressed in women. The above limbs are swinging and rotating quickly, and are not a branch or element of jazz dance. Its actions can be combined with elements such as House, Soul, etc., which is very ornamental and disseminated.
Example sentence: There is no gender in the world of Waacking.
Waacking There is no gender distinction in the world of Waacking.
7. House House dance
House is a dance party that can organize in a small space (small room), enjoying the fusion of music and body (dance), which is different from the large space required by the musical style of trance, and the atmosphere of the big dance floor is different.
Example sentence: At that time, CALEF (one of the earliest hopers) heard the lyrics "JACKIN..JACKIN...JACKIN..." in the music, and naturally made a movement called JACKIN with the music, followed by JACKIN became the most important BASIC in HOUSE CLASS.
At that time, when CALEF (one of the first people to dance HOUSE) heard the lyrics like this in the music "JACKIN...JACKIN...", he naturally followed the music and made an action called JACKIN. Then in HOUSE CLASS, JACKIN became the most important basic action.
8. Reggae reggae dance
(Reggae): Reggae has many movements of twisting the crotch, and also has a wave on the body. It is different from the waves that pop small but sperm. Reggae is very big and wild.
9. Jazz Jazz Dance
(Jazz): The essence of jazz dance movements is a free and simple expression, which directly expresses the inner feelings with the body's shaking, shaking, and twisting.
10. Urban
Urban The original meaning is "urban; with the characteristics of urban or urban life; in the city."
As for urban often mentioned in the program, it is not just a kind of dance, but a dance form that uses choreography as a means to combine countless dance types in order to present the best visual effects.
Choreography (choreography)
N-UNCOUNT Choreography is the inventing of steps and movements for ballets and other dances.
This style was discovered by the keen South Korea very early, so it began to add these elements to the performance in large quantities.
Old school and New school
As for the often mentioned Old school/New school is a classification of street dance styles. Street dance can be divided into two categories: Old School and New School. The former is the street dance style of the 1980s, and the latter was born in the 1990s, and there were considerable changes in music and movement.
In slang, old school can refer to anything that is from an earlier era or anything that may be considered old-fashioned.
In the proverb, old school means anything from an earlier era or anything that may be considered old-fashioned.
means retro and conservative. It is a common term, synonymous with traditional and retro, and can be used in any occasion, rather than just street dance. New School can be considered a style that has become popular in recent years, with the same origin as our school but has a significant difference. Similarly, it is not only used to describe street dance, but also music and tattoos.
Finally, some street dance moves will be popular with you in English.
Wave
wave is a more fluid and beautiful action, a bit like current and waves. Like this:
Power Move
power move , Chinese means power movement.
The three most well-known PowerMove movements in dance are Swipe (360 jump), Windmill (windmill), and Flare (Thomas).
Footwork
Footwork Chinese means foot movements. Among them, Freeze is the most shocking trick to the audience. As the name suggests, it is freezing, which gives people a very rapid feeling. The movement must be fixed in an instant.
Of course, street dance culture can also be said to have a profound history. As a niche culture, it will take a process to be accepted and understood.
In other words, "street dance" originated in the United States in a specific time period.That is, the style of other regions, Melbourne Shuffle does not belong to the category of street dance.
