Hip Hop

For the latest style of dance including skills seen on music videos, this class is the popular choice among older students. Its builds strength and endurance while being social and fun.

Hip-hop dance refers to dance styles primarily danced to hip-hop music or that have evolved as part of hip-hop culture. This includes a wide range of styles notably breaking, locking, and popping which were developed in the 1970s by Black and Latino Americans. What separates hip-hop dance from other forms of dance is that it is often freestyle (improvisational) in nature and hip-hop dancers frequently engage in battles, formal or informal freestyle dance competitions.

The dance industry responded with a studio based version of hip-hop, sometimes called new style and jazz funk. These styles were developed by technically trained dancers who wanted to create choreography for hip-hop music from the hip-hop dances they saw being performed on the street. Because of this development, hip-hop dance is now practiced at both studios and outside spaces.

We run three twelve terms per year, from September to end of June, with Summer School held in July.

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