Talk:Street dance

Article deletion
Sirs, I need help to stop an article being deleated! The Blatric is a new dance craze that is hitting the Edinburgh, UK dance scene. We need help in keeping this article. Please can anyone help by adding to the discussion on that page. This is has several hundreds of followers in edinburgh, we need help! Even though this dance is still fairly new it could be the next form of Krumping for all you know!

Link has been added to Portal:Dance/New articles. -- Roland2 16:37, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Edits moved from article
I removed the following text about a regional hip hop event from the article:
 * There is also currently a major even held every Monday night at Londons 'the jump off' where crews compete for money and the glory of eventually winning £1000 if they stay top for 10 weeks.

- Wintran 17:29, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
 * In that same vein, what bothers me about this article is that it's completely devoid of any clue as to where this form of dance is going on. Is this particular to the U.S.? Somewhere else? World-wide? Some context, please. --ILike2BeAnonymous 01:03, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

other articles
PlainJane 07:56, 1 April 2006 (UTC) I have recently begun and article on a similar topic: African American vernacular dance which is discussing similar issues, yet in a specific cultural context. This article could be absorbed into a new article 'vernacular dance', or else much of the information could be added to the hip hop culture article. 'street dance' is, however, a common term referring to 'vernacular dances'.


 * Nice new article! Though I don't know much about the term, judging from the article content I would say that African American vernacular dance and street dance could remain separate articles. Even though most street dances of today are African American vernacular dances, the term street dance is not culture specific, which is why it would not be fair to merge it with hip hop culture either (some street dance styles are considered funk dances, for example).


 * However, as the articles are clearly related, I'd like them to link to each other, maybe in the introduction section?


 * Wintran 23:03, 1 April 2006 (UTC)


 * I did some changes to street dance to make it link to African American vernacular dance. Wintran 23:15, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

==i know all there is 2 no aboot this so ....... heyahh street dance is a very gurd dance style i love doing it x —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.148.251.113 (talk) 15:27, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

THis article seems very incomplete. It doesnt note that Krumping is From LA or its relation to Clown dancing. It doesnt talk about Memphis Jukin, Miami Dade Jookin, Chicago Juke or footworkin, Detroit Jit, Angolan Kuduro, Baltimore Rock Off or Shake Off, Beat Ya Feet from DC, Gettin Lite from NYC, Turfin from SF and etc. - or any Latin American street styles. The article covers dancehall but not soca, samba, reggaeton, salsaton, cubaton, and cumbiaton dances. Im just going off clips of people dancing in the street found on youtube... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.110.112.2 (talk) 21:57, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

Time
A quote from the article:

"More recently, new street dance styles are emerging that are further inspired by hip hop and its music. Krumping, with its focus on highly energetic battles and movements, is an example of such a style that just recently became publicly known."

Instead of 'recently' (mentioned 2x), a fixed time would better. Like 'in 2000'. Ch!pzdance (talk) 21:56, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Freestyle
Hi all. Would just like some suggestions about how to develop a separate article relating to Freestyle Dance. Here in the UK, the term Freestyle is commonly used to refer to old style 'disco' dancing and is usually recognised as being a different dance form to Street. The best example of this is in the Freestyle competitions and championships run by such dance organisations as the IDTA or the ISTD, in which Freestyle and Street are judges separately, and are considered to have different techniques and movement vocabulary. Crazy-dancing (talk) 22:37, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

Street Dance is a sibling of Vernacular Dances
The term Street Dance (Funk Styles and Hip Hop) refers to dances born in the streets and culturally practiced and performed in the streets. Club Dances (Disco, Hustle, Vogue, Waacking, House) were born in nightclubs and culturally not practiced or performed in the streets. Street Dance is not equal to Vernacular Dances. The definition of Street Dance needs to omit the line "Street dance, also called vernacular dance" and a new page made for Vernacular Dances. Bambooman (talk) 13:30, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

There are two definition for street dance, both of them include Hip Hop and Funk Styles. The term 'street dance' was coined to mean any dance (perhaps uncomplimentary) to refer to the dances that evolved in spaces outside of 'dance studios', when nightclubs became popular these dances may have started to be practiced inside, thus the term 'house dance' was coined to deviate from the definition 'street dance', since 'house dance' is danced inside buildings (such as clubs) rather than street dances (that evolved in outdoor spaces). Of course, street dances have been practiced inside buildings, too, but this is no doubt where the (plausibly accusative and/or pejorative) terminology 'street dance' came from. Street dance now commonly refers to dances that were danced inside and outside of buildings, for as long as they weren't practiced in 'dance studios'. The secondary terminology 'street dance' is something coined by 'Hip Hop Culture', refering only to the street dances that evolved outside of discothèques at the time, this left the two distinctive dances 'funk' and 'hip hop' to blend in with each other in 'Hip Hop Culture', since 'Hip Hop dance' originally adapted 'funk dance' in either a 'freestyle' or 'pre-choreographed' manner, sometimes even for competiton. Hip Hop and Funk dance styles have been practiced vastly alongside House dance, etc, leading on to hybrid street dances, i.e. Tecktonik. It is not up to Wikipedia to change the terminology, that would imply original research, Wikipedia is a wiki, not a self-rational source of information. Original research is highly discouraged unless you have the citations to give.

I would agree that the formal definition 'vernacular dance' should be used, but the term is not as popular as 'street dance', to ensure users of Wikipedia can find the article, the current format is advised. 'Street' may confuse the user with stereotypes implying 'dancing in the street'. There is a confusion possible in both ways. I believe it should left as it is. Thanks for your understanding. FireWolf Flux (talk) 02:43, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

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