Street dance is an umbrella term for dance styles that have their origin on the streets.

Street dances come from urban areas of the United States and are considered to be part hip hop, funk and club culture.

Many pioneers say that the different styles should be separated, as each of their history and culture differ a lot.

First contact that people have with street dance is a movie and they start to shape dance.

Street dance style developed in nightclubs and schoolyards.

Street dance styles include:

• Hip-Hop dance
• Popping
• Locking
• Breaking
• House dance
• Krumping
• Clowning
• Waacking
• Voguing

House, Waacking, Voguing are born in the clubs, so sometimes they aren’t considered to be street dances.

There are a number of movies, videos, series, documentaries that you can watch to shape street dance:

• Get to know the world of street dance
• Bouncing Cats
• Dance Like
• Kyoka Step Out
• Explore Pantsula
• Tricklandia
• Dance City Guides

Firstly, to be a professional dancer your mind should be occupied with the dance, the connection with the music and with being in what you do.

Be yourself and give it all you have, if you are feeling the moment let loose and take risks.

Stick to what’s your destination, work for what you want and you will see the result of hard work.

If you want to be a professional, you should meet different people from different cultures.

Everybody needs inspiration and you should find for yourself where it comes. Many dancers just consume dance, which leads to the copying of moves from other dancers.

Next that you can do for professionalism is research about moves that you do.

You have to practice a lot to automate your moves and to understand the music.

“Take something from every genre of dance”-Diablo

“When I see something I like, I just work it in”-Stalamuerte

It is very important to choose the right footwear.

Usually street dancing uses hip-hop or rap music.

To Avoid injury you have to warm up your muscle groups.