P.E.

10 – Third Quarter
Study Concept
Brief Introduction:
Having a balanced lifestyle is a way in which we live and reflects in the right amount and proportion
of the different elements of our lives. Without a balanced diet or nutrition, our body is more prone to
diseases. Recreation are activities to refresh and relax one’s body and mind and make leisure time more
interesting and enjoyable. Physical activities are examples of active recreation which refers to refers to any
bodily movements that requires energy. Moderate activities are physical activities that you can do by moving
fast enough. Vigorous activities require the highest amount of oxygen consumption to complete the activity.
One of the benefits of doing physical activities is to reduce our risk to a heart attack or failure.
Dance is an example of a recreational activity that develops the aspects of personal health. It is
part of our lifestyle that can surely sustain our fitness. A type of dance performed on the streets or in any
open space outside of the dance studios is called street dance. Hip-hop dance is a dance style performed
in a hip-hop music and originated in 1970 in New York City among African-American and some influence
of Latin-American.

Examples of Street Dances

• House Dance - a combination of a freestyle street dance and social dance originated in the late
70’s and early 80’s in Chicago and New York underground clubs.
• Rave Dance – is a style of dancing primarily performed to electronic dance music which
involves kicking and sliding your feet.
• Punk Dance – closely related with the post-disco and new wave movements. Its musical genre
evolved around 1976 and 1977.
• Hip-hop Dance – is a dance style evolved from hip-hop culture and performed in a hip-hop
music.

Street and Hip-Hop Dance Styles

• B-boying – known as breakdancing, is a popular style of street dance originated among Black
and Puerto Rican youths in New York City during the early 1970s. It is considered as the first
hip-hop dance style and a practitioner of this dance is called a b-boy, b-girl, or breaker.
• Popping - was popularized by Samuel Boogaloo Sam Solomon and his crew the Electric
Boogaloos and is based on the technique of quickly contracting and relaxing muscles to cause
a jerk in a dancer’s body.
• Locking – also known as campbellocking, was created by Don Campbellock Campbell in 1969
in Los Angeles, California and is s usually performed by stopping the fast movement, locking
your body into a position, holding it, and then continuing at the same speed as before.
• Krumping - a form of dancing that originated in the African-American community of South
Central Los Angeles, California and is a relatively new form of the “Urban” Black dance
movement. It is free, ex pressive and highly energetic.
• Tutting - derived from the positions people were drawn in during the days of the Ancient
Egyptians. It is a creative way of making geometric shapes forming right angle using your
body parts. The style was originally practiced by young funk dancers.
• Shuffling – also known as Rocking or the Shuffle, is a rave and club dance originated in the
late 1980s in the underground rave music scene in Melbourne, Australia. The basic movements
in the dance are a fast heel-and toe action with a style suitable for various types of electronic
music.
• Waacking – an African American form of street dance originating from the 1970’s disco era of
the underground club scenes in Los Angeles and New York City which consists of stylized
posing and fast synchronized arm movements to the beat of the music.

Hip-hop Culture
- Dj, rapping, breakdancing and graffiti art.