Dance Styles of the World

My personal compilation of dancing styles from around the world.

Melbourne Shuffle - The Melbourne shuffle is a style of dance, which originated in the late 1980s in the Melbourne underground scene. The basic movements in the dance are a fast heel-and-toe action with a style suitable for various types of electronic music. Some variants incorporate arm movements.

Tektonic - Relatively new its a style combining Hip hop and techno dance styles meant for Dance music, a French innovation.

Jump Style - Basically a slowed down version of Gabber, usually danced to Chicago Hard House. Was based on the first move that was used in the dance called 'skieën', later a certain standard routine came that was a combination of kicking forwards and backwards both legs on the basslines, even later certain moves came such as a spin.

Step Dance - Step dance is the generic term for dance styles where the footwork is the most important part of the dance. Body and arm movements and styling are either restricted or considered irrelevant.

Krump - Krumping is an urban African American street dance form that developed on the streets of South Central Los Angeles, around 2001 - 2002. It is characterized by free, expressive, and highly energetic moves and is a major part of the hip hop dance culture, alongside other techniques, such as: breakdance, locking, popping and freestyling.

Crip Walking - It originated in the early 1970s in Compton, a poor suburb of Los Angeles, California, popularly referenced in rap lyrics. What began as a symbolic movement of the feet in the early 1980s, soon inspired a hip-hop dance in the late 1990s. The Crip Walk is a steady movement of the feet used to spell out gang-related symbols and images.

Liquid Dancing - Liquid dancing (or Liquid) is an illusion based form of gestural, interpretive dance that sometimes involves aspects of pantomime. The term invokes the word liquid to describe the fluid-like motion of the dancer's body and appendages. It is primarily the dancer's arms and hands which are the focus, though more advanced dancers work in a full range of body movements. Liquid dancing has many moves in common with popping, born out of 80s b-boy and funk style dance movements.

Clowning - A style developed entirely by Tommy The Clown in South Central LA which later eveoled into Krumping.

Popping and Locking - Popping is a funk dance and street dance style based on the technique of quickly contracting and relaxing muscles to cause a jerk in the dancer's body, referred to as a pop or a hit. This is done continuously to the rhythm of a song in combination with various movements and poses. A popping dancer is commonly referred to as a popper.

Breakdancing - Breakdance, breaking, b-boying or b-girling is a street dance style that evolved as part of the hip hop movement among African American and Puerto Rican youths in the South Bronx of New York City during the early 1970s.

Algorithm Dance - Not to be outdone the Japanese come up with the Algorithm Dance. The Algorithm March is a dance fad created in Japan, based on the children's television series PythagoraSwitch. It is attributed to Arugorizumu Koushin - Itsumo Kokokara.

Snap Your Fingers Dance - Snap music is a subgenre of southern rap music that emerged from Atlanta, Georgia. The genre of music soon became popular and artists from other southern states began to emerge. Tracks commonly consist of only a 808 (bass or kick drum), hi-hat, bass, snapping, a main groove, and a vocal track. Invented for use at nightclubs, it is unusually languid for normal dance music, with a slow tempo.

Soulja Boy Dance - Took America by storm a few years back based off a song and a dance pushed through Youtube.

The Cha Cha Slide - "The Cha Cha Slide" is a 1996 song/dance track sometimes referred to as the "Casper Slide". This song is often played at dance clubs, parties, skating rinks and weddings in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom.

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