Street Dancing

Master street dancing styles including hip-hop, breaking, and popping, with tutorials on attitude, freestyle skills, and the culture behind urban movement.

Break Dancing
If you think break dancing went out in the ‘80s…think again. Breaking, also called b-boying or b-girling, is an intensely practiced and popular style of...
Joining a Street Dancing Class
Taking a class in street dance – one of the fastest growing and changing contemporary dance forms – can be daunting to a first-time or less experienced d...
Krumping
In the same way B-boying (breakdance) defined underground urban culture in the 1970’s and 80’s ‘Krumping’, the latest movement in urban dance, is slo...
Learn About Body Popping
Seen everywhere from your dance classes to your favourite films, body popping is a popular form of street dance that grew out of the funk tradition of the 70...
Locking, Street Dance
Locking is a street dance style which was conceived in America in the late 60’s by one man, Don Campbell. He introduced the move ‘the lock’, upon which...
Origins of Hip Hop
In today’s diverse and intercultural world when we hear rap music, see music videos, or watch dancers on-screen, it is easy to forget that hip hop dance an...
The History of Popping
Robot King Tut, Scarecrow. No, they’re not your collection of old Halloween costumes. They’re a few of the signature dance moves that have grown out of t...
What is Uprocking?
Uprocking is a unique form of street dance that is done to soul and funk music. Often confused as part of the breakdancing movement, uprocking developed sepa...