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[[File:Urbanos.jpg|thumb|250px|Two street dancers performing in the URBANOS dance contest in Brazil.]]
'''Street dance''', formally known as '''vernacular dance''',<ref>{{cite book |title=Jazz Dance: The Story of English and American Vernacular Dance |last1=Stearns |first1=Marshall Winslow |last2=Stearns |first2=Jean |year=1994 |location=New York City |publisher=Da Capo Press |ISBN=0306805537}}</ref> refers to dance styles—regardless of country of origin—that evolved outside of [[dance studio]]s in any available open space such as streets, dance parties, [[block parties]], parks, school yards, [[rave]]s, and nightclubs. They are often [[improvisation]]al and [[social dance|social]] in nature, encouraging interaction and contact with spectators and other dancers. These dances are a part of the [[vernacular culture]] of the geographical area that they come from. Two examples of street dance include [[b-boying]] (or breakdancing), which originated in New York City,<ref>{{cite web |last=Mansbach |first=Adam |date=24 May 2009 |url=http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2009/05/24/the_ascent_of_hip_hop/ |title=The ascent of hip-hop: A historical, cultural, and aesthetic study of b-b(contracted; show full)
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