| Britains Got Talent has started a street dance | | | | Proponents of these different styles can |
| craze after Diversity and Flawless battled it out in | | | | correspondingly be described as poppers, lockers, |
| the final. Up and down the country dance and | | | | wavers and krumpers. If you'd like to see these |
| theatre schools are seeing increased enquires for | | | | moves in action, check out the video in this article |
| street dance lessons. | | | | Though the term was already established within |
| Street dance is a bit of an umbrella term and | | | | youth/dance culture, recent media interest in |
| underneath it you have breakdance, popping, | | | | 'Britain's Got Talent' winners Diversity and rival |
| locking, krumping and so many different niche | | | | group Flawless seems to have now planted the |
| styles. What was was done on the streets as a | | | | expression firmly into mainstream British English. |
| social dance form, has now become more | | | | Street dance is to gain even more exposure over |
| commercial in classes. | | | | the summer with a film to be shot in 3D. The |
| When a dancer pops, they jerk their body by | | | | team, alongside fellow TV contest finalists |
| quickly contracting and relaxing the muscles. The | | | | Flawless, were approached to be in the movie |
| movements they make are correspondingly | | | | after they were spotted last year by the film's |
| referred to as pops or hits. Locking refers to | | | | producers at the UK Dance Championships. The |
| fast, exaggerated, movements which then freeze | | | | film begins shooting in August and tells the story |
| into a rigid position (a lock), whereas waving | | | | of a street dance crew who have to work |
| describes a more fluid style where movement | | | | alongside ballet dancers. |
| appears to ripple through the limbs (as if a wave | | | | I hope you enjoyed reading my article, I own a |
| were traversing the dancer's body). Krumping is | | | | local theatre school based in Romford and |
| characterised by free, expressive and energetic | | | | Brentwood. Types of classes offered are street |
| movement of the arms, legs, chest and head. | | | | dance, musical theatre and singing. |