Dance Styles.
A lot of terms are used to describe what we do: Breakdancing, Break-dancing, Breaking, Breakin', BBoying, Hip Hop Dance, Streetdance and street dances.
What do all these terms mean? A lot of conflicting information is out there and the real truth and history can be difficult to find in the hype. Below are a few introductory articles with the aim of clarifying some of these confusions:
What are street dances and what is streetdance?
A short article about the history and meaning of the term "streetdance".
What is Breaking?
A short article about the dance called Breaking.
What are Funk Styles?
A short article about Funk Style dances such as Popping and Locking.
These articles are written from my personal experiences, research and many conversations with old school practitioners of the dance styles concerned. The history of Breaking and Street dances is still a controversial subject even among practitioners and thus these articles should only be considered an introduction to a much deeper subject.
Written documenation on street styles is sparse. However, I have found the following sources useful:
The Freshest Kids.: A History of the B-Boy. DVD. 2001.
Foundation: B-Boys, B-Girls and Hip Hop in New York City. Joseph Schloss. Oxford University Press 2009.
The Routledge Dance Studies Reader. Routledge, Alexandra Carter. 1998.
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All articles ©2009 Just 4 Funk Productions.
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