INTRODUCTION Teenagers nowadays are quite different compared before.

Before we are even afraid making decisions in our own; we need guidance from our parents or guardians, hence we cannot do anything without a permission from the elders. But now everything has changed. Todays generation have more freedom to choose to their chosen careers, sometimes it seems like the role of the parents is just to be only to be a good provider for their needs. Even parents advice sometimes being neglected by their children. See how people evolved from timid to experimental, even our own thought when we were in our childhood stage has also changed. From fashion trends to dancing, todays generation is more creative, risk taker and innovative; from simple dance steps of our traditional dance, we are now become fan in western dance, like street dance.

What is Street Dance all about? Street Dance is all about expressing yourself or just enjoying what you can do and dont have any fancy spring board or mats improvising with what youve got.

How to Street dance? Street dancing has been around for many years. There are three (3) easy steps in street dancing:

1. Feel the beat- the only thing you have to think about when street dancing is the beat or the rhythm of the song, so pick a song with rhythm like hip hop or rap; 2. Make up a couple of funky moves like popping and body rippling, popping where you move your body in a jerky way which looks like you popped it and body rippling is when you make your body like a wave; and 3. You dont need to choreograph the dance just do freestyle but make sure it goes to the rhythm.

What outfit as they wear for street dance? The girls usually wear tank tops with loose sweatpants or loose shirts with tight sweatpants and high rise sneakers. The boys usually wear colored tops, loose sweatpants and high rise sneakers or vans. But you can wear anything as long as it guarantees that you can move freely in it.

Where did origins of street dance come from? Street dance is very popular form of dance in western world. However, it is yet to make a grand entry in Indian dance culture, though, street dancing is slowly establishing its roots in India. Street dancing is also termed as vernacular dance. There is no particular era when the street began. It is not a well-developed and sophisticated form of dance. It is basically symbolizes all those dance styles which originated and evolved in everyday life in places including streets, night clubs, playground, school and others. Street dance was not prompted or discovered in a dance studio. The best feature of street dance is the improvisation factor.

There are no fixed dance moves in street dancing rather it focuses on dance own improvisation instincts. Street dance is quite social in nature and promotes contacts and interactions with spectator to make it even more fun. Street dance was first seen in the United States. In 1970s, street dance is an interesting and energetic amalgamation of many hip hop and funk dance styles. Other dance forms like house dance, locking, popping and others are also part of the same movements which street dance originated. Street dance is very popular in many parts of the world because of diverse uses. It is also used as a physical education in many western schools, with the passage of time. It has become more popular even when established dance studios. The street dance finds its motivation in fighting against violent gangster activities. It uses moves like rigorous hand, clapping hand, head movements and stomping feet which help in releasing anger, frustration and aggression. It is a wonderful medium of expressing ones pent up emotions in a non -violent way. The moves of street dance are quite fast, agile, dramatic and powerful. Street dance is slowly making its presence felt in Indian metros. Many young ones can be seen flocking to street dance classes every new season.

History of Street Dance You may have come across the term street dance a nd wondered what it meant. It is often used solely as a synonym for hip hop, funk or sometimes even house dance. In fact, street dance refers to a lot of modern day dances. To understand street dance better, discussion below is provided-this will enable us to determine what a street dance is and what it is not: First of all we have the word street. Many people think this refers to the Bronx, where hip hop was born, since the streets was often a nickname for it. Others think it refers to dancing in a street or using it to battle for ghetto or some other form of urban territory. All these term usages are perfectly legit, without a doubt.

In formal dance terminology, the word street in street dance meant any form of dance that evolved spontaneou sly outside of a professional dance environment as part of some form of culture. However, the term does not refer to just any non-studio developed dance, it refers to those such dances that developed vernacular as a reaction to some form of cultural movement that occurred within an urban society. Street thus refers to urban counterculture, and street dance refers to the dances evolving out that said counterculture. By calling a dance a street dance we can distinguish it from commercially developed dance styles such as Modern Dance or Zumba. Sometimes street dance may refer to both street and non street dance being danced literally in a street.

So what was the first street dance? When dances started evolving in urban rather than country environments, they were referred to as street dances. These dances, however spontaneous, were syncretic in nature and evolved from older forms of dance, such as folk, country, traditional and tribal. Street, folk, country, traditional and tribal dances all form as part of some geographical or musical culture, hence they all are known as vernacular dance categories. Vernacular is a term that refers to the apparently esoteric behavior or language of some segregated group as part of their everyday culture. So now we know that street dance refers to any dance that evolved outside of dance studios as part of some urbanized culture, we may still be wondering which the first street dance was. The first street dance to be known as a street dance was the Tap Dance and the dances it was based off, such as Clogging and Zapateo. We can easily say that the earliest forms of street dance were newer revisions of older vernacular dance. Clogging and Tap evolved just as the industrial revolution at the time was at its peak and the hard working staff needed to get away from it

all, dance was one solution. These dances evolved during a time when urban world was starting to become highly occupied by early technology such as mechanical devices, etc. Clogging, in particular could be said to have had evolved during the early 18th century within the Netherlands as a reaction to the popularity of clog shoes at the time. However, it didnt become its own dance until a few decades later, when British cotton mill workers began dancing in clogs in order to create their very own percussion (with or without music being played, fiddles were a favored instrument by many). The Clog dancing resembled the Irish Jig that had seemed to have had evolved out of pagan folk culture. The Clog later evolved into pseudo Tap Dance. Tap is a street dance that evolved amongst the Afro-American industrial slaves during the early 19th century, but evolved into several dances when it became the first street dance to be absorbed into mainstream culture. As slavery began to decline, Tap split into two: commercial and traditional: The commercial form of Tap was a non-street dance product that blended the early form of Tap with new or old commercial dance forms. Traditional tap was also very popular and eventually became a performance dance just like its commercial version, however traditional tap had always stayed pretty much the same over time. Due to Taps mainstream popularity, it evolved into several dances that were all largely fads to begin with. Swing, rock n roll and funk all evolved from Tap and became their very own dances. Swing and rock n roll were largely pattern dances. A dancer would start to break from the pattern dance and perform a solo dance such as the Charleston. It was not until Swing and Rock N Roll mutated back into a solo dance before the dances such as Funk and the Hustle started to emerge. Afro-American and Afro-Caribbean music was gaining popularity within the American and even European dance culture. The four main aspects, or elements, of hip-hop culture are: MCing rapping), DJing, Graffiti and B-boying (known to the mainstream as breakdancing).

Origins The term hip-hop was coined in the 1980s by DJ Afrika Bambaataa. He used the term to describe the urban cultural dance and music trend that began in the 1970s. The words hip-hop were originally used by MCs in scat (improvisational) rhymes. Street dancing's origins lie in folk dancing, primarily of Africa dancers were performed in a cipher or circle, with one performer usually dancing at a time. In the 1920s, performer Earl Tucker danced using glides and wave steps later common in hip-hop. In the 1970s, James Brown and similar music influenced later hip-hop music, which, in turn, affected street dancing.

DEVELOPING THE TECHNIQUE Breakdancers Many early hip-hop dances were performed standing upright and had influences from many sources, including Afro-Cuban, African and native tribal dances. Martial Arts also played a role in developing what is known as Top Rockin which took characteristics of Capoera, a self-defense method disguised as a dance. Because of the competitive nature of top rockin and hip-hop dance in generalupright dances were

supplemented with increasing footwork. If one dancer dance upright the interrupted that dance to lower onto the floor and perform complex footwork or freezes, the next dancer would be expected to outdo the first dancer, adding more complicated footwork to her dance. These ground moves were named floor rocking. Such was the battling context these dance continued to develop in.

Freezes and Spins Another aspect of street dancing was freezing. The chair freeze and baby freeze are two such positions. The chair freeze became commonplace because it allowed the dancer to support his body with his hand, forearm and elbow, leaving his torso and legs free for a variety of moves. The chair freeze was the foundation for moves like the back-spin with arms and the continuous backspin (also known as the windmill). As of 2010, clowning and crumping are the latest styles of street dancing, originating from Los Angeles.

Mainstreaming and Back Again Street dancing became

extremely popular in the 1980s, and notable b-boys, girls and dance groups began to perform in various venues, including Broadway

Theater, performing arts ceremonies and film. The mainstream U.S. Population was familiar with a

stripped down idea of what street dancing was. However, during the 1990s, hip-hop groups in the United States and sprouting groups in other countries sought to bring the style back to its roots. There was an increase in hip-hop groups that merged the dance with theater, contemporary dance, spoken word and other performance art forms. In the early 20th century, street dancing takes on many forms, and new dances continue to emerge.

Street Dancing Education and Recognition With a burgeoning call for recognition of the genre as a significant cultural and artistic form, hip-hop education and appreciation has taken root. The

Illadelph Legends Festival is an annual event dedicated to educating the public (as well as dancers of all sorts) about hip-hop history and technique from masters and creators of the genre itself The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame also honored the style in 1999 with a museum and exhibit chronicling its history and style characteristics.