“And those who were seen dancing were thoughts to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” – Friedrich Nietzsche.
1. Hip-hop Dance
Hip-hop dance refers to street dance styles that are performed to hip-hop music or have evolved as part of hip-hop culture. It includes a wide range of styles like breaking, locking and popping which were created in the 1970s and made popular by dance crews in the United States. What distinguishes hip-hop from other forms of dance is that it is often “freestyle”, i.e. improvisational in nature. Hip-hop dance crews often engage in freestyle dance competitions – “battles”.
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Always wanted to execute Step Up-inspired moves and tone your body? Sign up for our Hip-hop Level 1 Beginner Class and Girls Hip-hop Level 1 Class for the ladies here! Get your groove on at the power-packed sessions that focus on different street style choreography every week to strengthen your rhythm and ability to catch steps fast! No prior experience needed!
2. Contemporary Dance
Contemporary dance is a popular form of dance which developed during the middle portion of the 20th century and has since grown to become one of the dominating performance genres for formally trained dancers throughout the world, with particularly strong popularity in the US and Western Europe. Contemporary dance tends to utilize both the strong and controlled legwork of ballet and modern dance’s stress on the torso, and also employs contact-release, floor work, fall and recovery, and improvisation characteristic of modern dance.
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So You Think You Can Dance? If you’ve watched the hit reality TV series and always wished you could dance like the amazing dancers on the show, you’ve come to the right place! This Contemporary Dance for Beginners course or Level 2 Contemporary Dance class will teach you the basic foundation techniques of contemporary ballet, and show you how to apply these basic moves to simple choreography. So what are you waiting for?
3. Popping
Popping is a street dance and one of the original funk styles that came from California during the 1960s – 1970s. It is based on the technique of quickly contracting and relaxing muscles to cause a jerk in the dancer’s body, referred to as a pop or a hit. This is done continuously to the rhythm of a song in combination with various movements and poses. Closely related illusionary dance styles and techniques are often integrated with popping to create a more varied performance. These dance styles include the robot, waving and tutting. A popping dance is commonly referred to as a popper.
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Always wanted to become a popper? Join us for the Popping Beginner’s Course, where you will receive muscle strengthening and conditioning, basic techniques of popping, Isolation and Roboting, as well as Freestyle and Battle performance tips!
4. Waacking
Have you heard of this fun dance style before? Waacking is an African American form of street dance originating from the 1970s disco era in Los Angeles. Waacking consists of moving the arms to the music beat. This dance style was poopularised by Soul Train and influenced the creation of Outrageous Waacking Dancers, a Los Angeles-based waacking dance group and gained national attention through the American TV series So You Think You Can Dance in 2011.
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Apart from being a funky and stylish dance style, waacking has many health benefits that give you a fitter body as well! Want to tone up your arms? Then Waacking Level 1 Open Class is the first step to that! Have fun learning this high-fashion style of dancing and whack your arms with style to upbeat hip-hop music! No prior experience needed!
5. K-pop
Yes, how could we not mention this dance genre that has taken the word by storm? Originating in South Korea, dance is an integral part of K-pop. When combining multiple singers, the singers often switch their positions while singing and dancing by making prompt movements in synchrony. The key movements standing our and being easily remembered are supposed to match the characteristics of the lyrics of the song.
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How about learning some of the moves on your own? Join us for the galore of K-pop Dance Classes offered by Lessons Go Where’s lesson providers!
6. Cuban Salsa
Cuban-style salsa, also known as Casino, is a form of salsa dance originated in Cuba. Dancing Casino is an expression of popular social culture – many Cubans consider it a part of their social and cultural activities centering around their popular music. What gives the dance its life, however, is not its mechanical technique, but understanding and spontaneous use of the rich Afro-Cuban dance vocabulary within a “Casino” dance.
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Always wanted to learn salsa and tone up your body? Join us for a Cuban Salsa Open Class today! You won’t regret it!
7. Street Jazz
Before the 1950s, jazz dance referred to dnace styles that originated from African American vernacular dance. In the 1950s, a new genre of jazz dance – modern jazz dance – emerged, with roots in Caribbean traditional dance. Every individual style of jazz dance has roots traceable to one of these two distinct origins. Jazz was a big hit in the early 50’s and it is still a well-loved style of dance all over the world.
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Jazz dancers are known to be exceptionally fit and gracious. Why not become one? Join us for a Street Jazz Level 1 class today! No dance experience required, but you will be fully equipped with dance experience after the class!
8. Tap dance
Tap dance is a form of dance characterized by using the sound of one’s tap shoes hitting the floor or other surfaces as a percussive instrument. Two major variations on tap dance exist: rhythm (Jazz) tap and Broadway tap. The sound is made by shoes with a metal “tap” on the heel and toe.
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At Lessons Go Where, we always believe that every single child is a gem with hidden talent. If your child has interest in dance, why not unleash his or her potential to the fullest. Enroll your child to our Little Stars Tap and Jazz for Kids today!
Did we get you dancing on your toes? Do sign up for our lessons today! Also, browse all our dance classes here, and get your groove on!
Love,
The Lessons Go Where Team.