Dance Genres The African American vernacular dance has included different dancing styles depending on the current gusto and trend of the local culture. African American artists utilize other dance styles with their own unique creative concepts to form new and more appealing maneuvers that are a norm in today's dancing community. Music According to research of renowned historians and dance critics, the Flamenco started off as an impromptu dance following a steady beat -- mostly staccato clapping of the audience. Later, it was modified its repertoire of movement to follow the complicated harmony produced by the "togue" (flamenco guitar), as well as the rhythmic clapping and stamping of the audience or the band. There are actually three different Hip Hop styles of dance that a person can do, and they are breaking, locking and popping. Breaking The Hip Hop dance style breaking , it actually has four basic forms that compose its foundation in order for you to be able to perform this particular style of dance. The four basic moves are the toprock, which are foot movements done while the dancer is standing up, downrock, which are foot movements done while the dancer is down on the floor while using his hands to support his entire weight, freezes, which are poses done by the dancer on his hands, and power moves, which are basically acrobatic moves that are fairly difficult to perform. Also, stepdancing is further broken down into two types of steps -- the soft shoe and hard shoe. The soft shoe often follows the 4/4 tempo with movements including reel, light jig, slip jig, and single jig. Hard show follows the 2/4 hornpipe, hard or treble jig, treble reel, as well as the traditional steps. This dance routine is said to originate from the black community in Harlem, New Work back in the 1920s. In-depth study of this style has broken down its routines into a combination of Charleston, breakaway, hop, and Texas Tommy. Around the 1930's, Lindy Hop is at the peak of its popularity. This dance routine is quite popular in the many bars and dancing studios in various cities in the United States. It also distinctively featured dance moves extracted from the Morris dance that was innovated around the same time period. As this particular dance style grew on popularity and was introduced in the US, more steps were added and some regions might even have their own variety that is distinct from the others.