Street and Hip-Hop Dance
The origins of hip hop dancing go back to the streets of New York City in the 1970’s; specifically the streets of the Bronx. That is where young African American’s began to speak over music and dance in the earliest forms of rap and hip hop. Soon the youths on the street were embracing a new style of dancing known as breakdancing. … Keep Reading → Eventually the Latin American culture picked up on the new street dancing and spread the influence further. Before long large numbers of teenagers from different neighborhoods were getting together to form dance groups that competed against other groups. These “crews” of breakdancing and other new forms of dance were using the constructive activity of dancing to have healthy competitions with other neighborhoods. When the new street style of dance found its way into clubs and eventually videos and television, the trend spread across the nation.
