What type of music is breakdancing usually performed to?

Breakdancing is typically set to songs containing drum breaks, especially in hip-hop, funk, soul music and breakbeat music, although modern trends allow for much wider varieties of music along certain ranges of tempo and beat patterns.

What dance style is also called breakdancing?

Break dancing, also called breaking and B-boying, energetic form of dance, fashioned and popularized by African Americans and U.S. Latinos, that includes stylized footwork and athletic moves such as back spins or head spins.

What is the meaning of the term Uprock?

Uprock, or Rocking, as it was originally referred to, also known as Rock, Rock Dance, Brooklyn Rock, Burning or Freestyle is a competitive urban street dance, performed to the beats and rhythms of soul, rock and funk music, but was mostly danced to a specific and exclusive collection of songs that contained a hard driving beat.

What’s the difference between top rocking and Uprocking?

If you don’t know, Uprocking is different from Top Rocking. It is a dance that started in the late 60s before bboying and continues to be done today. For more information about Uprocking you can follow Rob Nasty and check out his Workshop Tour. Download Here: http://www.facebook.com/VincaniTV/app…

What kind of street dance is uprock?

Uprock, or Rocking, as it was referred to, also known as Rock, Rock Dance, Brooklyn Rock, Burning or Freestyle is a competitive urban street dance, performed to the beats and rhythms of soul, rock and funk music, but was mostly danced to a specific and exclusive collection of songs that contained a hard driving beat.

Where did the movement of Uprocking come from?

Rock dance evolved in New York City circa in the late 1960s. As Rocking/Uprocking developed, body movements called “jerks” and hand gestures called “burns” (as defined above in this article), would be added to emulate a fight against an opposing dancer.