Dance Styles
Energetic, rhythmic street style with athletic moves, breaking, and freestyling, often incorporating popping, locking, and krumping.
Hip-Hop
Storytelling-focused, often featuring acoustic guitars, heartfelt lyrics about life and love, and roots in folk and blues.
Country
An iconic entertainer with dynamic fusion of technical hip-hop, blending influences from Krump, Popping, Breakdancing, and Funk, infused with his own fluid, powerful, and charismatic energy, often featuring intricate footwork, sharp arm movements, body rolls, and strong isolations.
Chris Brown
Spontaneous, improvised movement where dancers react to music without pre-set choreography, focusing on self-expression, creativity, and musicality, blending known moves or creating new ones in the moment
Freestyling
An aspiring ballerina from a suburban background, who moves to Chicago's South Side after her mother's death and falls for a Black student, blending their different dance worlds and finding love amidst cultural clashes and personal challenges.
Save the Last Dance
Creates rhythmic sounds, emphasizing percussion and coordination.
Tap
Rooted in electric guitars, strong rhythms, and powerful vocals, encompassing diverse styles like alternative.
Rock/Rock & Roll
The "King of Pop," famous for electrifying stage presence, unique moves, and pop choreography that blended styles, influencing global pop culture.
Michael Jackson
A fast street dance style with rapid, intricate foot movements, often danced to a genre of electronic music.
(Chicago) Footworking
A gifted street dancer from Los Angeles attends Truth University after his brother's death, finding himself caught in the intense rivalry between two fraternities competing in the national step-dancing championship, forcing him to learn teamwork and find purpose beyond individual performance while balancing school and romance.
Stomp the Yard
A foundational, technical style known for grace, precision, pointe work, and storytelling, forming the basis for many other forms.
Ballet
Defined by rhythmic spoken lyrics, sampling, etc. and often social commentary.
Hip-Hop/Rap
A contemporary icon, and the first African American female principal dancer with the prestigious American Ballet Theatre (ABT).
Misty Copeland
A fast, two-part movement that shifts weight and prepares for the next step, creating a small, rhythmic pulse, sometimes incorporating a slight kick or brush before the weight shift.
(Kick) Ball Change
Two best friends and street dancers lead a popular crew in Los Angeles, navigating fierce dance battles for money and respect while their friendship is tested by rivalries, romantic interests, and the consequences of hustling to support their crew and dreams of opening a recording studio.
You Got Served
Rhythmic and energetic, combining classical foundations with dramatic flair, improvisation, and high-energy moves.
Jazz
Characterized by catchy melodies, accessible lyrics, and a focus on mainstream appeal, often evolving with trends and incorporating elements from other genres.
Pop
A visionary choreographer and founder of his namesake dance theatre, which showcases the African American experience through dance- blending modern, jazz, and African traditions.
Alvin Ailey
A close partner dance where individuals rub their bodies against each other in a rhythmic motion, often with one person facing away from the other.
Juking/Grinding
A disadvantaged dancer and a privileged modern dancer find themselves paired up in a showcase that determines both of their futures.
Step Up
Partner dances like Waltz, Tango, and Foxtrot, focusing on elegance, connection, and structured steps, popular socially and competitively.
Ballroom
Combines elements of pop, soul, funk, hip hop, and electronic music, featuring a distinctive record production style, drum machine-backed rhythms, pitch corrected vocals, and a smooth, lush style of vocal arrangement.
R&B
A trailblazing performer known for her precision, athleticism, sharp timing, and intricate footwork- blending sharp hip-hop moves with fluid, sensual body rolls and acrobatic elements- making her performances powerful, captivating due to technical difficulty and creating a new standard for stage presence in R&B and pop.
Ciara
A sequence of beats, typically formed by two measures of 4/4, used to structure choreography and musical phrases.
8-count
A talented hip-hop choreographer in New York City is forced to rely on her community and teaching skills to create her own path to success and help her students while working towards her own big break.
Honey