Dance Styles- Kpop

internet source: Se7en

So you know this Korean pop culture, Kpop is a musical genre born in South Korea and is characterized by a wide variety of audiovisual elements together with dance-pop, pop ballad, electronic, rock, metal, hip-hop music and R&B. Although it is from Korean quite recently, its root has long been planted from the 1990s when the American street dance culture especially hip hop spread over the Asia. The dance was then simplified in order to be promoted to a wider range of dancers, during the evolution, some other moves were pull from contemporary dance, jazz, which made it more versatile.

Although Kpop is heavily influenced by Hip Hop and Street Dance, it is much easier than its parents dances because the fans' ability to mock or dance together in shows are also considered. It is in fact an intentional act to simplify the complicated moves. An interesting fact that one can divide from the Korean pop stars' dancing is that boys' Kpop style is clearly different from girls' Kpop style, even though they all use hip hop moves.

This unique Korean style has swept over the world, not only South Korea or Asia, but alo Latin America, North Africa, Middle East and Eastern Europe. We know that there are different styles in Street dance, we have popping, grooving, breaking, sacking, locking, waving. Boys tend to have more popping, grooving, breaking (now you are thinking of which are thinking of Se7en and Rain). Well but Kpop is more likely to be danced in teams, or bands, boys have more power moves while girls, like Girls' Generation, do more jazzy dance, and they have a lot of flipping hair, body rolling, and sexy winking.

internet source: Girls' Generation

Kpop is much easier than hip hop or break dance, a talented person can even learn it merely by watching the MV, however, as Kpop is often a group dance, unless you are with a group who are keen, most self-learning alone obviously lack such chancem especially when the recent choreographic trend is considered. Lately, Kpop routines present 'formation change' more often, which means that the singer/dancers switch their positions while singing and dancing by making prompt movements in synchrony.

Learn more about the other dance styles? Check here.
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