Let Me Show You A Dance Battle: Hip Hop, Breakdance, Krump & Popping!
Hip Hop is a dance style that originated in the US over 50 years ago.
Back then, people used to meet up, dance and battle against each other - the beginnings of dance battles!
Dancers are divided in 2 groups - those who like to train choreographies, and those who like to freestyle (obviously, many people enjoy both as well!)
So for Freestyle Dancers, battles are still a huge factor until today.
You get to dance against someone else within the same dance style, and a number of qualified judges will then decide the winner of the battle.
Yesterday, I went to a Battle in Hamburg called Geometry of Dance.
As many of you know I enjoy both choreography and freestyle, and I've watched and participated in many many dance battles already.
It's always a very fun event, people from everywhere get together to dance and have a good time!
You get to see others perform (which might inspire you), meet new people and enjoy the atmosphere!
This particular battle offered 3 different styles / categories of dance:
Hip Hop, Krump, Breakdance and Popping.
Hip Hop, of course, is one of the most popular dance styles nowadays.
But Hip Hop originated from different other styles - like popping, locking and breakdance.
In a Freestyle Battle, there are almost no rules - you simply move your body to the music and can use different elements from Hip Hop.
Krump is a relatively new, highly energetic and expressive style of dance.
It only got popular in the early 2000's, and differs quite a lot from traditional Hip Hop.
The moves are much more static but extremely powerful, sometimes even aggressive, and the attitude plays a huge role in the performance.
Breakdance is almost a mixture between dance and acrobatics!
This is actually one of the styles that later inspired Hip Hop.
I'm sure you've all seen breakdancers doing crazy athletic moves on the ground - it's a very athletic type of dance that needs a lot of balance, muscular tension and focus.
Popping is a dance style that accentuates strong beats with a "pop", a sudden contraction of muscles!
Popping is a style that requires a lot of muscles and tension.
You need to be able to flex your muscles to the beat as much as you can, accentuating the hard hits!
And lastly, there was actually a Fusion battle - combining Hip Hop and Breakdance!
Freestyle dance is such an amazing sport - it combines athleticism with creativity, and you get to fully be yourself and move to the music however you want!
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© Sirwinchester
As another man that loves to dance here on STEEM I cannot help but admire how damn smooth your moves are Sir Winchester.
Thank you klye 😬🕺🏾 appreciate it!
amazing skills displayed
It's awesome to watch a dance battle and see how everybody creates their own steps and moves so differently!
Wow! love the dance..
Thanks, glad you enjoyed the post!
Wow =) It is perfect. I like hip-hop, Breakdance and other styles of dance too. Thank a lot for post @sirwinchester=)
You stated that Breaking later inspired Hip Hop, As someone who's been fortunate enough to be in to breaking for 20+ years, I have to correct this statement as Breaking is the dance of Hip hop. Hip Hop being a culture (Mc'ing, Grafitti, DJ'ing & Breaking). Hopefully i'm going to contribute on steemit with more info regarding this topic :) In the meantime if you guys would like some history on the culture and dance, please check out Documentaries / movies like "Style Wars", " Wild Style", "The freshest kids" etc. Peace
yeaaar man,.......
that's a cool report, dance is medicine for soul, spirit and the body. I was hyperactive (ADHS)as a child and had hard to fight with, breakdance was the key for me. I did not have to take medicine until today, even with depresionen it always helped me.now i am a dancer-teacher ,yogateacher and i'm happy for your cool contribution about Hip Hop, BBoying....Dance, where people get to know the dance and can spread in the world.......
thank you.....