break dancing
Acrobatic street style
Break dancing is an acrobatic style of street dance originating in 1970s New York hip-hop culture.
Dancers perform athletic moves including spins on the head or back, freezes in contorted positions, and intricate footwork close to the ground.
A practitioner is a break dancer or b-boy/b-girl: The crew gathered to watch them break dance in the parking lot.
- street styleUrban everyday fashion
- headspinRotating balanced on head
- head spinDisorienting whirling feeling
- flaresPyrotechnic distress signals
- BronxNYC's northernmost borough
windmill · freeze · power moves · power move · cypher · funk · breakbeat · swipe · b-boying · toprock · old school · popping · locking · DJing · linoleum · six-step · uprocking · jam sessions
- 80sbig hair, mullets, shoulder pads, new wave, synth-pop
- American dancesCharleston, twist, jitterbug, cakewalk, lindy hop
break dancingballroom dancing
Formal partnered dance styles
classical ballet · waltz · ballet · foxtrot · Viennese waltz
break dancingballet
Classical dance on pointe
contemporary dance · lyrical dance · waltz · ballroom dancing · slow waltz
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