Street Dance Workshops, From Hip Hop Dance to Break Dance - Here!
If you have landed on this page there's a strong chance that you are you looking for Street Dance or Hip Hop Dance Workshops for your school, charity, centre or maybe your looking for a corporate event and need a Professional dance troupe to open up a showcase for you. Well we have everything you need here! Keep reading to find out more.
Our Street dance workshops is an incredibly popular dance workshop, which encourages individuality, originality, and personal style. Participants will learn the latest street dance moves and techniques such as free styling, breaking, waving, popping, and locking from our top street dancers, and discover how this dance form is rooted and influenced by traditional African dance.
Street Dance Workshop @ St Helens & Katerine Girls School - AbingdonJust as an example, we can offer:
Street Dance
Our street dance workshop is very practical dance workshop – participants will get get stuck straight in learning street dance moves and a full-choreographed routine that will even impress yourself!
Street Dance Workshop & Perfomance
We just don't provide facilitators to teach workshops are facilitators are actually choreographers that our commercial dancers who have danced and toured with artists such as Madonna, Jamiroquai Janet Jackson & JLS.Our prices are very competitive and worth every penny! Prices start from as little as £260.00 per workshop and we can give you a customised quote for your project.
Mix & Match Any 5 Workshops For £1,500 (Was £1,925)
Trap Media have a wealth of experience in providing workshops, for children and adults, throughout the UK, and our prices are always competitive. We have decided to offer our customers this amazing offer designed to help you with your budget.
To qualify for the offer, you must book by 10th February 2012. Fill out the form below today to secure your discount. Alternatively, please call our bookings line FREE today on 0800 689 9909.
Examples of Combinations:
African Drumming + Bollywood + Henna + Street Dance + Samba Drumming
Anti Bullying + Sex & Relationships + Conflict Resolution + Drugs + Enterprise
Mask Making + African Dance + Musical Theatre +Capoeira + Chinese Dance
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Terms of Offer:
*(a) Offer cannot be used in conjunction with any other promotion. (b) Offer only available when booking 5 Full day workshops (c) All workshops are exclusive of VAT, travel expenses and materials & expenses incurred. (d) offer only valid between 01/02/12 - 10/02/12.
Firstly What is Street Dance & Hip Hop Dance All About?
Street dancing, like any other form of dance has steadily evolved as an art movement in itself, an expression of African American cultures flowing together of various modern dance styles including jazz, funk and hip hop - Street dancing is just a broad umbrella term that describes a range of funk styles that have grown from the USA since the 1970s.Hip hop dancing which as another term for Street Dancing encompasses many different street dance styles, all offering a great way of working out the body through fun and rhythmic exercise. With its popularity quickly increasing outside of the US.
Hip hop dancing encompasses a wide range of street dance styles, set to the beats of hip hop music.
Street Dance Workshop
Popular forms of street dance & hip hop dance include break-dance, popping, locking and house dance. It is known as street dance because it was developed over the years, by passionate professional and freestyle dancers, at informal dance offs and gatherings on the streets and in nightclubs.
The unique characteristic of street dancing is that it is not strict in its rules as to what exactly should constitute street dance and a street dancer is open to use his own personal style and influences in the steps. Street dancing styles nowadays include everything from break dancing to house and electronic dances to even influences from world cultures.
Street dancing has indeed taken the world by storm with a number of movies and television shows being made on this subject. Music artistes like James Brown and Michael Jackson were the first artistes to inspire these dances and get them noticed in the mainstream.
Street Fit® Street Dance Fitness Workshops
Street Fit is a exclusive Street dance Fitness workout program designed and licenced by Trap Media - it is the latest fitness dance craze that everyone is talking about!
Street Fit is street dance with a fitness twist to help promote a happier healthier lifestyle with dance workshops particularly aimed at children to make them aware of the positive impact that eating right and exercising correctly can have on life.
Street Fit® workshops are designed to be fully interactive and accessible to all age groups, we tailor the workshops to meet your needs and requirements making sure you get the most out of the sessions. Run by a full licensed Street Fit instructor you will be guaranteed the best street fit workout for your group.
If you would like more information please visit our Street Fit Workshop page now.
Moves We Teach in Our Street Dance Workshops
B-boying or Break dancing: Breaking or B-boying is a part of the main dances of hip hop along with popping and locking. Break dance includes four basic steps, toprock, which is done standing up with lot of footwork, downrock which also involves footwork but with your body supported with your hands on the floor, freezes, which are stylish poses done with your weight on your hands and power moves which include challenging acrobatic tricks like the flare (where the dancer rests his body on his hands and brings his legs around for a 360 degree turn), windmill (where the dancer turns on the floor with his legs up in the air in a v-shape and with the help of his shoulders, back or hands) or the headspin.
Locking: It is a dance style that involves a series of quick moves followed by sudden pause. It is different from popping in the respect that in locking, the pose is held for a longer period of time. It is quite comical and is often addressed to the audience.
Popping: It is another of the funk dance styles that evolved in California in the 1970s. It involves quick stiffening and then relaxing of muscles in a series to make an illusion of flow or movement. It was created by the popping group known as the Electric Boogaloos. It includes a number of popular dance styles including robotting, miming, crazy legs and slides (like the moonwalk).
House Dance: House dance is so called because it was developed "in-house" in popular nightclubs in the early eighties. It incorporates a number of styles including African, Jazz, Latin and even tap dance.
Electro Dance: Also called tecktonik, is a style of street dancing that originated in France, primarily from a club called Metropolis in the early 2000s. It uses a blend of all the above styles along with disco dance styles.
What Happens in a Street Dance Workshop?
During the street dance workshop our facilitators will teach few common street dance moves for beginners and step by step instructions on how to do the dance moves.
These street workshops are for beginners but we can customise the workshop to be appropriate for all ages. No experience is necessary for the workshop, we do recommend clothes and footwear and you are ready to begin dancing.
Street Dance Workshop - Techniques
The 6-step:
- It is the most fundamental move in break dancing. It is a form of downrock which means that the body is close to the ground and is supported by the hands. It starts by being in the push-up position with legs spread apart.
- Lift your left hand and place your right hand in its place.
- Now your weight should be on your right hand and foot. The left leg should now be placed in the right behind the right knee.
- Swing your right leg around and bring it in front of the right hand so that you are in the crab pose. At the same time, move your left hand back to the ground, and your right hand up.
- Swing your left leg in a wide arc and wrap it around your right leg.
- Now move the right leg back to its spot in the first step.
- Now, finally pull your left leg back and place your right hand down to come back to your starting position.
The Planche:
- It is an example of a break dance freeze move, where you place your body parallel to the ground but your hands straight.
- To do this move, lie flat on your stomach and place your hands on your sides.
- Now place your palms, pointing away from your body perpendicularly and lift yourself off the ground. Bend your knees for balance.
Toyman or Tutting:
- This style is very simple but needs good coordination and creative arrangement.
- The main thing you have to do here is to maintain a 90 degree angle in your joints.
- It is a form of popping and you should create the illusion that you can only move at right angles. It is inspired from action figures and Egyptian symbols.
Waving:
- This is part of popping and gives the illusion that a wave is moving across your body.
- This might need you to practice in front of a mirror. Though this is not physically demanding it can be pretty confusing at first.
- The armwave is pretty easy, and you will have to hold both your arms out, perpendicular to your body and sideways.
- Now, slowly starting with your fingertips, lift and then lower each part, moving from your elbow to the chest which you could move forward or backward, so that it looks like a wave is passing through, until you reach the other hand.
- Make sure the rest of your body is motionless and the only movement is the wave.
Read Our Testimonials
Dear Trap Media, Just to let you know overall all 38 workshops provided for the Girl Guide celebrations were excellent! The facilitators were all very pleasant and several commented that they had learned a lot about the Guide movement. I would definitely recommend you to others. Best wishes,
Eirlais Tomkins (Mrs), Girlguiding Wolverhampton
Everybody enjoyed the Street Dance Workshop, teachers and pupils. The teachers are even asking to have street dance lessons. They worked well with large groups and had the girls really motivated. A positive day. Thank you very much!
D J ames, School of St Helen and St Catherine, Abingdon
"....I would like to say a huge thank you for enabling St Bedes Catholic School to put on a wonderful event. The artist was superb and the service you provided was exceptional. The Children are still buzzing about it they really enjoyed leaning and practicing their new Flamenco dance skills. I hope you wouldn't mind us getting in touch for the Celebration Event 2010!
M Waobikeze - St Bedes Catholic School Romford
".... I just wanted to thank you for all your hard work at the xl Celebration Event. The feedback for the Street Dance Workshops I have had so far has been amazing and if it hadn’t been for your positive attitude on the day and the flexibility to work with such a large and varied group of young people the event wouldn't have gone as well as it did. Hope you enjoyed the day also and hope you won’t mind us getting in touch for the next xl Celebration Event!"
K Luttrel - Xl Coordinator The Princes Trust
So How Do I Book?
Please remember we offer so many dance workshops including the following:Street dance workshop, Hip Hop dance, Modern dance, Contemporary dance, Break dance , Bollywood dance, African dance workshop, Brazilian Capoeira dance, Jazz dance, Tap dance, Freestyle, Ballet, Lindy Hop, Belly dancing, Jive, Swing, Street Jazz workshop, Blues, 1920's Charleston + Many More dance workshops.
To see a full list of workshops visit our workshop listings; once you have found your desired workshop please call our bookings line FREE today on 0800 689 9909 or use the form below to tell us what you need and we can customise something especially for you!
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