Hip hop

Hip Hop started among African Americans in the Bronx back in the 70s but has been very much accepted by the youth worldwide crossing social and cultural barriers.

The four main elements comprising the hip hop culture include:

• Breakdancing,
• Beatboxing,
• Rapping,
• Graffiti art.

Fashion is also an important aspect of hip hop and has a very distinct look favored even by those who do not engage in other hip hop related activities.

See also

• Breakdancing
• Breakdance Competitions

Breakdancing is one of the four elements of hip hop that is executed in time with hip hop or funk music.

Breakdancing, as the term implies, includes dance moves that look so difficult yet so graceful and different that it looks like the dancers can break their bones doing the moves. Breakdancing is unlike most dances in that it is very unstructured and the dancer is given great freedom to improvise. What this means is that though there are basic dance steps the combination of steps to be used is up to the dancer so that watching a group of dancers more often than not you will see each one doing his own routine at the same time.

Battles are simply dancing competitions where in breakdancers show off their moves and are judged either by the audience or by a group of judges.

Battles can have any number of participants from just two people to a large group of people divided into teams.

Participants of battles are not given time to dance an entire song alone on stage but dances almost alongside their competition since it is turn-based with turns taking placing very quickly.

Battles are more like debates with participants taking turns.