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[[Image:120844215_  b137f7aba5_  o.jpg|thumb|right|250px|A girl [[hip hop dance|hip hop dancing]], a very broad and common category of street dance.]]

'''Street dance''' is an umbrella term, similar to [[vernacular dance]], used to describe [[dance]] styles that evolved outside of [[dance studio]]s at more everyday spaces such as [[street]]s, [[school]] yards and [[nightclub]]s. They're often [[improvisation]]al and [[social dance|social]] in nature, encouraging interaction and contact with the spectators and the other dancers.

''Street dance'' is also commonly used specifically for the many [[hip hop dance]]s and [[funk dance]] styles that began appearing in the [[United States]] in the [[1970]]s, and are still alive and evolving within the [[hip hop culture]] of today, such as [[breakdance]], [[popping]], [[locking]], [[hip hop dance#New_  school.2Fnew_  style|hip hop new style]] and [[house dance]]. These dances are popular on all levels, as a form of excercise, an artform, or for competition, and are today practiced both at dance studios and more freely arranged spaces. Some schools use street dance as a form of [[physical education]].

Many street dance styles are [[African American dance]]s as they first appeared within [[African American]] communities.

==Characteristics==
(contracted; show full)ound the world, such as [[Battle of the Year]], [[Juste Debout]], [http://www.gforceproductions.com G force Street Dance Weekend UK and International Championships], [http://ihiphopdance.com iDance UK Hip Hop Crew Championships], [http://artspectrum.org/alhc.htm The American Lindy Hop Championship], [http://www.jumpoff.tv Jump Off] and [http://www.hiphopinternational.com World Hip Hop Championship]. These contests focus mainly on judged battles but also on choreographed shows.

==Styles==
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Some of the most famous street dance styles of today, such as [[breakdance]], [[popping (dance)|popping]] and [[locking (dance)|locking]], began appearing around the [[1970s]], and [[hip hop new style]] and [[house dance]] around the [[1980s]]. Though some of these styles originally evolved seperatly from each other, most of them are today associated with the hip hop scene in one way or the other, as they share many street dance el(contracted; show full)
* [http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/catalog/titledetail.cfm?titleNumber=497846 Houghton Mifflin book] A street dance themed novel titled [[Kid B]].
* [http://artspolicy.colum.edu/DVProfiles.html "Dancing on the Through-Line: Rennie Harris and the Past and Future of Hip-Hop Dance"] by Jeff Chang; from the series Democratic Vistas Profiles: Essays in the Arts and Democracy


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