2.4. How to street dance.

Street dancing is a great outdoor sport to do with a group of friends. Sometimes street dancing becomes competitive and you should hold your own in a circle. Many people bring their radios out onto the streets, start up a groove and then wait for others to join in. You must be confident to start dancing on the street.

Street dance is a term that is used to describe dancing that was brought to streets in order to keep young people out of trouble. Learn about battling as a form of street dancing with help from professional hip-hop dancers and choreographers in this free video on street dance.

-Step by Step Guide on How to Street Dance

Street dancers express themselves through body movement. You can learn the steps by rote, but you have to supply the soul that turns steps into personal representation. Best place to learn to street dance is in front of a full-length mirror. Put on the tunes and start moving. There are some standard hip-hop moves you can use, but let the rhythm guide you.

-How to Learn the Thriller Dance Step-by-Step

Learning how to do any coordinated dance takes a lot of time and practice, but if you're dedicated and determined, you can do it. Michael Jackson's "Thriller" dance moves are great to perform at parties, assemblies and parades. Whether you're a dance troupe looking to learn a new dance, or an individual, check out these step-by-step tips.

-How to Do Easy Street Dance Moves

Street dancing is an excellent outdoor activity to perform with a group of friends or with onlookers and passersby who wish to join in. The great thing about street dancing is that you needn’t be a skillful dancer; just about any form of dancing or vibrant music is all that’s required to have a good time. Depending on the type of music played, or form of dance, street dancing can include a variety of moves.

-How to Learn Street Dance

Street dancing is based in freestyle movements to allow express the sense of freedom. Among the various styles available in street dancing are Krumping, Breaking, Tutting, Popping and Locking and Turfing. To learn street dance moves you will have to identify the person or style you wish to imitate the most and devote yourself to it. Along with street dancing skill come confidence, attitude and competition, so you must be prepared to dance with or against fellow street dancers.

When hip-hop entered mainstream culture in the mid-1980s, it not only introduced millions of Americans to rap music and its gritty and occasional humorous tales of city life. It also introduced them to groundbreaking forms of dance that are now performed around the world. For example, in the '80s-era movies "Krush Groove" and "Beat Street," young audiences learned about break dancing, a popular form of street dance at the time.

-How to Learn London Street Dance

Street dance is one of the most popular dance forms in London, especially among young women. The term "street dance" covers many different types of dance including house, hip hop, breakdancing, popping and locking. If you want to learn street dance, there are plenty of studios in London that will teach you how.

Many schools specialize in this style of dance. Some schools specialize only in street dance and others teach all styles of dance. See what is available locally and enjoy a new style of dance where you will have fun and get a workout all at once.

-How to battle

Whenever you do street moves, you want to face your person that you're battling and you want to have fun. You should present your style to the person. So the first one you're going to do with street move. You're going to give them a little attitude. Any kind of street move is anything that comes to your body and what you're going to be presenting to him and what you're feeling. Go ahead and do your street move. So basically this is a street move that is done for hip hop dancers. Now also hip hop dancers more generally will do street moves to the audience because obviously we're dancing to the audience. So basically that is how to do street moves.

List of street dances varying from traditional jazz to techno:

• African street dance

• Skitting

• Stepping

• Afro-American vernacular dance

• Bebop

• Black Bottom

• Boogie-woogie

• Breakaway

• Cabbage patch

• Cakewalk

• Charleston

• Chicago stepping

• Detroit Ballroom

• Drunken Sailor

• Hand Dance / Bop

• Jitterbug

• Lindy hop

• Rock n roll

• Monkey

• Moonwalk

• Swing

• Stepping

• Tap dance

• Texas Swingout

• Texas Tommy

• Afro-Caribbean vernacular dance

• Bruk Up

• Flexing

• Calypso

• Dancehall dance

• Skanking

• Merengue

• Zouk dance

• Reggaeton dance

• Rumba

• Salsa

• Salsaton dance

• British vernacular dance

• Northern soul

• Experimental / Freestyle

• Ambient dance

• Boogie

• Jump Up

• Speedcore dance

• Hip-hop & Funk styles

• Aunt Jackie

• Breaking

• Boppin'

• Bounce

• Crip Walk (C-Walk)

• Clown Walk

• Dougie

• Jerkin'

• Jiggin'

• Memphis Jookin'

• Krumping

• Locking

• Robot dance

• Oakland boogaloo

• Electric boogaloo

• Popping

• Animation

• Gliding

• Floating

• Sliding

• Liquid and digits

• Snaking

• Strobing

• Strutting

• Tutting

• Twist o Flex

• Waving

• Slang dance

• Snap dance

• Turfing

• House / Disco dance

• Baltimore club dance

• Footwork

• Hustle

• Jacking

• Lofting

• Vogue

• Waacking

• Tecktonik

• Punk dance

• Hardcore

• Moshing

• Pogo

• Rave dance

• Candy Walk

• Detroit Jit

• Free Step

• Glowsticking

• Hardcore

• Hakken

• Jumpstyle

• Hardstep

• Industrial dance

• Kandi Stomping

• Melbourne Shuffle

• Hardstyle

• Rebolation

• Tekstyle

• X-Outing

• South American vernacular dance

• Lambada

• Freaking

• Modern Capoeira

• Samba

• West Indian vernacular dance

• Soca dance