Embrace Hip-Hop Dance Steps And Stay Fit

Hip hop dance moves consist of energetic frolic moves which offer a great invigorating momentum to work your body. With an unparalleled popularity throughout the world, this is the guide on how hip hop dance moves make you healthier and more active.

Introduction to hip-hop dancing:

Hip-hop dance moves encompasses several street styles, in harmony with the beats of thumping hip-hop music. Popping, and locking and krumping are perhaps the most well-known hip-hop dance moves. However, we also have break-dance and house moves also rapidly rising in prominence.
Hip-hop dance originated in the 1970’s from the African-American streets. Hip Hop is a creative, often improvised dance form.

The performer’s body resonates with the catchy beats, also tentatively expressing numerous emotions during the process. The pounding steps, power jumps and hand-standing stunts makes hip-hop a great source to achieve fitness; but definitely not for the faint hearted.

Key health fitness benefits of hip-hop dancing:

Hip-hop dancing builds up stamina. So if you struggle to maintain the pace while you run, hip-hop dance moves offer an astonishing form of cross-training. This enhances your stamina and even muscular resistance capabilities.

Hip-hop is a boon to prevent heart disease. The moves really set your heart pumping with an unprecedented adrenaline rush. So what are you waiting for? Start your Hip-Hop lessons today.

Hip-hop dance grants a positive mindset – People face stress for various reasons from the doom and gloom of debt crunches to everyday work stress. Hip-hop is dance form which gives you a positive mindset to overcome stress.

Bone-Breaking- A Popular Dance Style Evolved From Hip-Hop?

Have you heard of the dance style “bone breaking”? As noticeable as its name hints, the dance form is gaining popularity especially on Instagram.

What is bone breaking?

Bone-breakers also known as contortionists perform incredible movements dislocating their shoulders, hands and limbs to create fluid movements. They are spectacular to watch but can also make you feel sick.

On Instagram, users have expressed sheer love for this dance form where dancers have posted more than 6,000 posts with the hashtag #bonebreaking, and #bonebreak.

Bone breaking | Inception

Bone breaking traces its roots in Brooklyn, New York where you will see young dancers often compete in dance competitions like Battle Fest. Bone breaking, a kind of flex dancing, is a contortionist form of dance. Many hold misconceptions that bone-breaking evolved from hip hop dance. However, it actually is a dance form which has its roots in a Jamaican dance form called bruk-up. This fact is as stated by The New Yorker’s video explaining bone breaking as a dance form.

Flex dancers have been performing in Brooklyn since 2006, as per the New York Post.

Rare fact-

Busta Rhymes has featured bruk-up dancers in his music videos, and on Madonna’s MDNA tour in 2013, six of her 22 dancers were bone breakers.

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Want To Learn The Most Charming Percussive Moves? Go Belly Dancing

Belly dance is perhaps the most sensuous form of dance known for its aesthetic moves. Belly dance also gives surprising results in terms of elevated levels of confidence and charm in one’s personality when she learns lively percussive movements.

Let’s dive into the history of this beautiful dance form.

History of Belly Dancing

Belly dance is a Western-influenced name for a kind of Middle East dance form. Initially a "solo, improvised dance from consisting of torso articulation", it now takes diverse forms. The variations are affected by the cultures surrounding a particular country or region in terms of costume and dance style.

Where to learn the best belly dance moves in Dubai?

You will perhaps want to learn everything from fluid movements to intricate shimmies which completes a well-articulated belly dance form. There is no better place than our belly dance class in Dubai where you will learn all the belly dance lessons from experts.

What you’ll learn?

Percussive movements- 

These are also known as staccato movements which are most commonly of the hips. These are vital aspects of belly dance. Typical movements include hip drops, vertical hip rocks, outwards hip hits, hip lifts and hip twists.

Fluid movements- 

Here you will learn to sway your body with sinuous movements interpret your agility to flow with melodic lines and lyrical sections in the music, thus impressing everyone once you master it.

In addition to basic torso movements, you will learn many styles from travelling steps and turns to incredible spins!

Wanna Learn Break Dance? Here Are Few Steps

Break dance is one of the most wonderful body dance forms. Dance aficionados have been practicing break dance since its inception in U.S. in 1969. Break dance incidentally also favored evolution of the hip hop culture.

Here are few steps which will make you dance to the groove.

Fundamental Break Dance Movements:

Some basic break dance moves which you can start with are:
Top Rock- Top rock is the basic warm-up hop step. One can do power step, side step, or boyoing. (You can even sway your hands open making you feel a free-bird.)-

The Footwork- This is basic dance step which focuses on your foot works. Here you can also do coffee grinder, kick-outs and zulu spins. Begin with the coolest yet easiest 6-step. Basically the 6-step requires you to place your one hand over the floor while you circle around the ground. The following illustrations will guide you. Go step-by-step following the illustrations-

Now do it again from the start and with some practice you will master the art!

Floor Rocks– Floor rocks involve doing steps where your body will touch the floor. The variations are steps like belly swim, scissors, side slide or body glide.

Power Moves (The climax) - Now being the climax, the power moves are the ultimate source of the exhilaration you can experience from break dance. The power mo¬ves involve moves like wind mill, back spin and flare. Click here to see an invigorating video which will give you a fair idea about power moves.

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What’s special?

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When is it?

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Limited tickets available

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Why you should attend?

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Contact us-

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Reliving Hip-Hop: If Joy Is In Your Blood!

Hip-Hop has been the bellwether when it comes to a dance form full of adrenaline rush, thanks to the original Hip-Hoppers.

So let’s come together and re-live the unforgettable moments of Hip-Hop remembering the original Hip-Hoppers and dance to their tunes!

First-up: Tupac Shakur (The Hip-Hop Solo Man)

Tupac Sahkur is a name which rules the hearts of all Hip-Hop frenzies. He was the greatest Hip-Hop artist ever lived.

The game legend with undeniable music delivery. The Absolute. His influence still rules and talks to people beyond the grave. The emotions sea-deep in his lyrics even make grown men sob! Listen to Hail Mary by Tupac Shakur, Eminem and 50 Cent and you’ll experience the real Hip-Hop chill!

Eminem: Attitude Reloaded!

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Eminem is regarded as one of the iconic names in the Hip-Hop genre. However, before this he had his share of crap too. Eminem succumbed to drug abuse during the shooting of 8 Mile in 2002. (The movie is awesome!) He used to be on set for 16 hours every day and suffered insomnia. However, he emerged victorious in a conventional style. With an attitude reloaded, Eminem made a huge contribution in making hip-hop mainstream as one of the biggest selling genres.  I personally love “Cleanin’ Out My Closet”, from his 3rd album, The Eminem Show.

Notorious B.I.G.-

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Well, well, well when it comes to Hip-Hop how you can forget the Big Poppa of Hip-Hop? Christopher George Latore Wallace, better known by his stage names The Notorious B.I.G, Biggie or Biggie Smalls, was an American rapper. Biggie is known for his charismatic disposition and his lyrics regarded as “most fly”. His murder during a shooting in 1997 was traumatizing and felt as the end of hip-hop. However, 18 years after his death, Biggie is still the king of New York.

Nicki Minaj: Female Power!

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The Hip-Hopper with a feminine sheen. She is Charismatic and Charming. Nicki Minaj is undoubtedly the greatest female Hip-Hop artists of all time.

Her powerful image resembles the eminent Japanese Harajuku Barbie. Her fans known as barbz (short for Barbies), are crazy about Nicki Minaj for her ability to spit fire whenever she’s on mike! My favorite is “Moment 4 Life”, what’s yours?

We, at Tempo Dubai have soulfully dedicated this blog to all the dance lovers and the legends. We cater to the budding artistic community in Dubai. Contact us if you want to hone your talent in the field of dance, fitness and entertainment.

The 2 Easy Dance Steps That Will Definitely Calm You Down!

Life is hard, we know. It's a tapestry of lot of things like work stress, melodrama, struggling in bad traffic or too much of belly fat! Too little sleep and holes in favorite jeans and terse emails also perhaps can cause much ado. And all this hurly-burly can cause mood swings and make one lose his calm.

So what you can do? Umm, how about going to a zen dog like this-

Oh okay…I know that you will have to encounter Moses for the same. Let’s have a look at another option. How about a cat dance masseuse like the one below-

Oh I forgot; you might get bacne or perhaps more!

If you still got some stress left then it will surely dissuade with the 2 easy dance steps you’ll notice further. Also you will always look awesome on the dance floor!

THE TWO STEPPER

Now this the simplest step which makes you groove and ooze out the stress while you enjoy. Also it is a step which you can partake and look awesome on the dance floor.

Simply step your left leg out to your left as shown above. And then bring it back to meet your right leg. The right leg will then move forward and again come back to meet your left leg. And the cycle will continue. Pretty simple, eh?

Now you can make it look cool by giving it a sway. So you need to bend your right knee outwards and hands swaying on the opposite as shown above. The same will apply on with your left leg. To add more fun and tempo snap your fingers which will also give it a light soothing rhythm.

How cool and jazzy, isn’t it?

THE BOUNCE

Now by bounce I don’t mean you to do something weird like this:

Lol.. However, when it comes to the bounce step all you need is “YOU” and perhaps your best buddies.

The bounce is even easier than the two-step. It’s because it does not even need a rhythm. All you need is a base, claps, boom, whoo-hoos and finger snaps! The idea is to groove on your toes as shown above and "Just bounce to it." Keep your shoulders relaxed and let your arms and legs sway.
Now if you want more of it then you must watch the dance video from the movie “Pulp Fiction” which is my personal favorite. John Travolta and Uma Thurman truly groove sexy!

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