| Have you ever tried to categorize dance? The | | | | practice. |
| options are endless. | | | | Any professional dancer will tell you that classical |
| Any dancer, teacher or choreographer chooses their | | | | ballet technique is "point zero" it's the basics on which |
| own category of dance according to their practice | | | | all other styles lean on. Without it he's lost. |
| and experience it's neither black nor white. They can | | | | Professional dancer is usually measured by his |
| name their style what ever they feel is right, nothing | | | | technical skills and that is one major parameter at |
| is set in stone. | | | | any audition. |
| Some teachers will define their class as Hip Hop while | | | | However, most break-dance dancers lack any |
| others will define the same class as modern jazz or | | | | classical training what so ever. |
| funky modern. | | | | So how do they do it? All this complicated moves? |
| How's that possible? | | | | Break-dancers use completely different skills and their |
| We all know well known techniques such as: Classical | | | | movement vocabulary "speak" a whole different |
| ballet, Neo classical, Graham, Lemon, etc' but once | | | | language containing a lot of acrobatics and fine |
| you mix some of it adding your own "flavor" | | | | muscle movement isolations. |
| freestyle, what do you call it then? | | | | Studying further, the great differences between two |
| The range of freestyle dance is endless, that's why | | | | similar yet so different types of dances, made me |
| everyone can find their own niche. | | | | dig deeper... |
| Over the years many great well known | | | | The Institutionalized Hip Hop grew up within the |
| choreographers experimented with different | | | | dance studios leaning on the basic principles of |
| movement materials, usually taken within specific | | | | classical ballet training and modern dance, slowly |
| technique vocabulary, adding their own freestyle | | | | pushing the boundaries making way to a new rougher |
| affected by their heritage. That is how we got what | | | | and funkier jazz. |
| I like to call the institutionalized Hip Hop. | | | | No matter how far the boundaries were pushed, |
| What I mean is that you can find dancers with very | | | | they still relied on the safety of the technique the |
| strong technical skills that studies dance professionally | | | | helped it grow and develop. |
| and at the same time preserved and improved their | | | | On the contrary, the Improvised Street Hip Hop |
| own freestyle. | | | | technique evolved out of completely different needs |
| Among all this different styles there is one "outsider", | | | | and utterance has created an amazing movement |
| one unique type of dance that is clearly controversial. | | | | vocabulary. |
| It has its own language, technique and say. | | | | The break-dance has a unique way of manipulating |
| I'm talking about the improvised Hip Hop or as most | | | | the body into different shapes using techniques of |
| of us know it as Break-dance, the street Hip Hop. | | | | popping, locking, breaking, freezing and more creating |
| The break-dance has its own unique technique. | | | | an illusion of dislocated joints. |
| Not any dancer, even a professional, that is capable | | | | The emphasis of this technique is developing a |
| of dancing various dance styles such as: classical | | | | freestyle and improvisation while pushing boundaries, |
| ballet, lyrical jazz, funky, African dance etc' will be | | | | defying gravity and the human body limits. |
| able to dance break-dance without prior extensive | | | | |