If you ask what is the hottest variety show at the moment, there must be "This is Street Dance 3", which has been popular on various platforms since its broadcast, and the program has invited Wang Yibo, Wang Jiaer, Zhong Hanliang, and Zhang Yixing as star captains, and the popularity has continued to rise! So today I will take you to know the English expression of street dance that the street dancers and captains often mention in the show
Street Dance
Originating in the United States in the 1960s, it is a collective term for a number of different kinds of dance based on different street cultures or musical styles.
Let's take a look at some of the common types of hip-hop:
JAZZ, jazz dance. A rapid and dynamic rhythmic dance with a large and neat movement range.
Weacking, a hand-waving dance, features a rapid swing of the upper limbs.
Wave, current dance, wave dance. The movement is transmitted from one part of the body to the other like a wave.
Clown, Krump, Clown Dance. Danced in clown costumes, similar in style to Hiphop but much wilder and more exaggerated.
Free style, which mixes various types of dances together and performs them as they please, without the limitation of dance style, departing from the norms of general dance.
Urban, urban choreography. In order to present the best visual effects, a new dance form that integrates multiple dance styles by means of choreography.
Locking, lock dance. The earliest form of hip-hop dance, the rapid rotation and pointing of the wrist and arm, its biggest feature is that it suddenly stops when a certain movement.
Popping, mechanical dance. It is a style in Funk and Street Dance, a dance style that vibrates the dancer's body by rapid muscle contraction and relaxation, and the dancer who dances Popping is called popper.
Breaking, breakdancing. It is a kind of difficult street dance, paying more attention to the combination of dance steps and skills, and the men who dance Breaking are called B-boys.
Hip-Hop, hip hop dance. One of the more widely popular types of street dance, the essence of which lies in the rhythm and rhythm, dances beautifully, and is deeply loved by the public.
House, House Dance. Absorb Breaking, Hiphop, Salsa, Tap, Ballet and other different dance elements, and express House dance music with rich and brisk footstep changes, which are divided into three categories: Jacking, Footwork and Lofting.
Battle, the challenge between individuals or b-boy groups, is what we commonly call awkward dance.
Perfections, a B-Boy's best move.
Routines, consisting of several dancers joining together or performing dance moves.
Slide, pull yourself over the floor.
Float, use your hands to make the body do horizontal balance, but in addition to the feet, the feet should be bent to help balance.
Neckmove, just turn the windmill.
Nutcrackers, covering part of the style car under his crotch with his hand.
Halol, the action of the windmill, but not from the shoulder to the shoulder but with the head to turn, is commonly known as the brush head windmill.
Sumos, grab the knee style car.
Supermans, with their chests in style, reached forward with their hands.
Bellymill, like a windmill, differs in that he doesn't turn with his hands or his head, but with his belly.
Headslide, when a head slide action is completed, reverses and stops with the head.
Headspin, turn with your head. To start spinning with your hands and feet, i.e. head turning.
Airplanes, windmills plus hands stretch as high as you can to the sides so you can catch them.
Barrels, windmills, hands wrapped around the front.
Genies, hand-made and straddling the entire chest.
Cannoaball, wrapping his hands around his knees in cannonball's movements.
Fist Glide, the movement and position are similar to hand rotation, the difference is to use the fist to turn.
Back Swipe, and airswipe are the same, but except when your foot is added in halfway through, you change direction back to the action at the beginning.
Bronco, starting with the foot, then with only one hand down, the foot kicking backwards and then the foot down again, repeats all the movements.
Swirls, similar to handglide, differs in that it rotates with its forearms instead of hands.
Hand Glide, similar to B-boy's movement of doing float, except that only one hand supports the body and the other hand helps to push the rotation, also known as a helicopter.
Flare, similar to a windmill, has to make a large circle in the air like the feet, but do not move the shoulders, but put the weight on the hands.
Rubber Band, Bboy does the kip-ups and then the back goes down and repeats the kip-up.
Kip-Up, lying flat on his back, his feet turning behind him and kicking his feet into the air, his upper body following and then landing on the ground with his feet.
Bunny Hop, similar to flare, differs in that the feet stretch straight up in front of you and then jump up and down in circles.
Hesititations (FREEZE), which stop or pause when doing a down rock circle action.
Backspin, using the back for a spinning performance, commonly known as back spinning.
Crazy Legs, like air swipes, but not just one. Do air swipes again and again without pause in between.
Bhudda, similar to UFO, except that the knees are in straight hands and then the feet are off the ground.
Finally, I recommend a few movies about street dance, when you are fine, you can see that you can learn more about street dance, and you can also improve your English listening and speaking skills
"Step up"
Honey (Sweetheart Dance)
Flashdance (Lightning Dance)
Kickin It Old Skool (Hip Hop New Song)
Dance Flick (Dance Movie)
Planet B-boy (Hip-Hop War)
Save the last dance
"Stomp the Yard" (Hip Hop Boy)
"You.Got.Served" (Hot)
StreetDance 3D (Dance Showdown)
This is what I share with you about hip-hop, and I hope you can gain something.
In fact, many of our more common topics are a lot of interesting English expressions, so how do we usually improve ourselves and accumulate authentic expressions?
1) Interpret bilingual readings, choose some English readings that are best for you to be interested in for interpretation, read the Chinese part at the beginning, interpret sentence by sentence, and then compare the text after speaking.
2) Read some original English books, you can learn a lot of authentic sentence structure and usage and vocabulary from them. (Note that choosing English books is the first thing to meet your current level of English proficiency, not too difficult and not too simple)
3) Go to the English corner more, there will be many English corner activities in the university, generally this kind of activity will require only English, and many people will have an English atmosphere together, so that you have to open your mouth.
4) Communicate with foreigners, this is the most direct, communicate with foreigners and directly receive the most authentic and authentic spoken English expression, it is also best to exercise our sensitivity to English and immediate response. If there are foreign teachers around you, you must make good use of them! Go and chat more. If we don't have it around, we can use a platform similar to the colloquialist (one-on-one communication with foreigners, just like playing WeChat voice). My previous practice in speaking was a friend who gave me the recommendation code 2M0DIN to get 10 minutes of speaking time, and after practicing, I felt really good and kept practicing English speaking on it.
5) Consciously go to see British and American dramas, here consciously refers to
1. Choose a good episode paragraph, you can follow the classic dialogue to imitate, it is best to fully fit the voice tone of the original line.
2. When watching, pay attention to some authentic colloquial expressions in the episode and take notes.
With persistence over time, you can not only accumulate some authentic spoken English vocabulary, but also make your pronunciation more authentic.