Learn to dance hip hop: The best tips for beginners

Hip hop dancing is fun, looks cool and also trains your own body awareness. Here we present the best tips for beginners.

Learning to dance hip hop: What really matters as a beginner

• You are never too old to start dancing: Whether you get the urge to learn to dance at 4, 14, 40 or later, give in to that urge. In the long run, you’ll be rewarded with better fitness, a good sense of balance and better memory – not to mention the fun of exercise.

• Good instruction is key: You can learn a lot of hip hop on your own, i.e. with the help of dance tutorials on the internet. However, sound instruction will take you much further in the beginning, because you will get something from an experienced dance teacher standing in front of you that no dance tutorial can offer you: constructive criticism and suggestions for improvement.

• The right preparation: Apart from the fact that you can learn dance techniques and styles from other dancers, you should not forget that warming up and stretching are part of it, just like in any other sport.

How to get good dance lessons

In almost every city there are dance schools or dance clubs that have hip hop in their programme: Go there, take a trial lesson and find out whether the chemistry between the trainer, the participants and you is right and whether you enjoy dancing at all.