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2 unusual facts about Street Dance


Street Dance

Street dance, formally known as vernacular dance, refers to dance styles that evolved outside of dance studios in any available open space.

StreetDance 3D, a British dance film also known as StreetDance in its non-3D version


Joan van den Akker

Already at the age of six Van den Akker became interested in athletics, although she loved riding, tennis and streetdance as well.


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Bounce Streetdance Company

The company recently staged a street dance tribute to Michael Jackson's "Beat It", which subsequently became a runaway YouTube success.

International B-Boy Championships

B-boying or Breaking, also called Breakdancing, is a style of street dance that originated among African-American and Puerto Rican youths in New York City during the early 1970s.

Ken Swift

Ken Swift's exposure to breaking first began in Manhattan where he encountered dancers participating in a then-popular street dance known as Uprocking.

Sinukwan Festival

The Sinukwan Festival relives the Kapampangan spirit with a week-long calendar of cultural revivals capped by a grand street-dance parade in the streets of San Fernando, with towns outdoing each other to the tune of “Atin Cu Pung Singsing.”

The Lockers

Adolfo Quinones starred as Ozone in the street dance films, Breakin' and Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo.

Zoellner Arts Center

The venue has had a wide array of performers, including: the New York Philharmonic and Itzhak Perlman, the Tuvan throat singers Huun-Huur-Tu and Laurie Anderson, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, MOMIX, the Aquila Theatre Company, Lily Tomlin, Bernadette Peters and Queen Latifah.