The Street Style Squad Podcast is your go-to source for all things street dance.

This episode explores the characteristics of popular music genres and how street dancers can recognize them.

Hip-hop music has a strong beat and prominent bassline, while pop music has catchy melodies and a straightforward rhythm. R&B has soulful vocals, bluesy guitar riffs, and a strong backbeat, and funk music has a groove-based rhythm with emphasis on the bassline and drums. Disco has an upbeat tempo with a steady four-on-the-floor drum beat and often features orchestral instruments. House music is characterized by a 4/4 beat with a range between 120 and 130 BPM and uses synthesizers and electronic instruments. Electronic music encompasses a broad range of styles, and the drum beat is often created using digital drum machines and synthesizers.

Street dancers should understand the characteristics of different music genres, recognize patterns and song form structures to anticipate changes in tempo, rhythm, and dynamics to create engaging and dynamic performances. Common song forms include verse-chorus form, AABA form, and AB form.

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The Street Style Squad Podcast is your go-to source for all things street dance.

The episode explores the importance of cyphers in street dance, which are circles formed by dancers to showcase their individuality, connect with their community, and express themselves freely.

The cypher represents a utopian ideal of acceptance and freedom, where anyone can participate regardless of their background, skill level, or identity. Different street dance scenes developed their own styles of cyphers, each with its own set of codes, values, and practices.

Today, cyphers continue to play a crucial role in street dance culture, not only as a place to showcase individual skills but also as a platform for social and political commentary. Cyphers have become an integral part of dance battles and tournaments, and they are used as a space for experimentation and collaboration where dancers can try out new moves and styles and learn from each other.

The focus is on creating a safe and supportive space where dancers can come together and express themselves freely, without the pressure to win or be the best. The episode also touches on the difference between cyphers and dance battles and how cyphers are likely to evolve in the future.

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The Street Style Squad Podcast is your go-to source for all things street dance.

This episode explores the techniques borrowed from classical, ballroom, and Latin dancers that street style dancers can use to improve their dance musicality.

Musicality is the ability to interpret the music through movement, and it's not just about dancing to the beat of the music; it's about understanding the melody, rhythm, and emotion of the music and using that to create movement that expresses those qualities.

Classical dancers use counting, listening to the music, and musical interpretation to improve their dance musicality.

Ballroom dancers use partner work, dancing to different genres, body isolation, and footwork to improve their dance musicality.

Hip hop dancers use freestyling, popping and locking, and breaking to improve their dance musicality.

Drawing inspiration from other dance styles is also an effective way to improve dance musicality.

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The Street Style Squad Podcast is your go-to source for all things street dance.

This episode talks about the importance of rhythm and timing in street dance and provides tips to improve it.

We emphasizes feeling both the beat and offbeat to create dynamic movements, staying on beat to avoid feeling disconnected from the music, and doing transitions on the beat or offbeat to make them seamless.

We also discusses specific tips and techniques for improving rhythm and timing in various street dance styles, such as hip hop, locking, popping, whacking, house, vogue, and krump.

The tips include practicing to different tempos and beats, paying attention to musical cues, practicing with a metronome or beatboxer, isolating body parts, and channeling energy and emotions.

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The Street Style Squad Podcast is your go-to source for all things street dance.

In this episode, we will talk about how to enhance your freestyle dance improvisation skills, with a focus on mastering the foundations of different street dance styles, letting go of self-judgment and self-doubt, being present in the moment, and incorporating musicality into your dancing.

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The Street Style Squad Podcast is your go-to source for all things street dance.

Confidence is essential for success in any field, and dance is no exception. To build confidence, focus on your strengths and set achievable goals. Fear can be a powerful emotion that can hold us back from achieving our goals and living our best lives. To overcome fear, focus on your strengths and set achievable goals. The most important details in this text are strategies for overcoming fear in dance battles.

In this episode, we talk about the ideas and tools we can use to combat fear, reduce performance anxiety and build confidence for street dance battles.

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This episode breaks down judging criteria for street dance battles and give you some tips on how to use them to your advantage.

Ideas discussed in this episode:

• To understand how to stand out in street dance battles, it's important to have a good understanding of the different styles.
• It's important for street dancers to understand these judging criteria and how they will be evaluated in a battle.
• Now that we've covered the basics of the judging criteria, let's talk about how you can use them to your advantage.
• One key strategy is to really focus on your strengths.

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The Street Style Squad Podcast is your go-to source for all things street dance.

In this episode, we talk about how street dancers can improve their skills through science-backed learning methods.

Concepts in this episode include:

• The importance of deliberate practice and breaking down complex moves into smaller components to master them more easily
• The role of muscle memory and the brain-body connection in skill acquisition.
• How taking breaks during practice can actually improve learning and retention

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This episode is all about getting fit for street dance battles, and we've got some awesome tips for us. It is so important to work on cardio, strength, and flexibility, and we give some specific exercises for dancers to try out.

We talk about a sample fitness plan that you can customize to fit your own goals and needs. The sample fitness plans are for all styles, krumpers and waackers.

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The Street Style Squad Podcast is your go-to source for all things street dance.

This episode features a list of 50 affirmations for a street dancer preparing for a dance battle event serves as a powerful tool to help boost their confidence, focus and determination. Each affirmation starts with the phrase "I am" and is designed to create a positive mindset and promote self-belief.

Some of the affirmations encourage the dancer to tap into their inner strength, while others emphasize the importance of hard work and perseverance. Overall, these affirmations are intended to inspire and motivate street dancers to give their best performance during a dance battle event.

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