 Hi, this is Anna Banana-Freeze, and I'm here to teach you beginning breaking classes. Before we start, you might notice that I'm in a cool-looking studio. I'm not coming from my home or my living room or anything, so I have my dance shoes on. If you're dancing or taking this lesson from home, you might not be allowed to wear shoes inside your house. I'm not allowed to wear shoes inside my house, but when I dance, I usually wear shoes, and since I'm in a studio, I can wear shoes for this video. When you are going to be doing breaking lessons, I would like you to wear something comfortable. I'm wearing my comfy pants that I could dance in like a kind of loose shirt, and I tied up my hair because otherwise it would be all over my face. So this is how I like to dance and dance comfortably, but before we start dancing, I just wanted to let you know a little bit of what breaking is about and where it came from. So breaking is a dance. You won't hear me saying break dance. I'm going to be called it breaking. It's a dance, and it's from the hip-hop culture, and hip-hop began in the Bronx in New York City about early 1970s around that time. So around that time in the United States, because that's where New York City is, around that time there was a recession going, and the Bronx was one of the neighborhoods that had a lot of people of color, and a lot of the neighborhoods were not taken care of very well by the government. And so there was a lot of broke-down buildings. There weren't a lot of activities for people to do for fun. So what they did do for fun when they all had time was throw big parties. And at these parties there was music playing, and when music plays, I don't know about you, but when music plays, I have to move a little bit. Maybe it's just like this, a little side to side. Maybe my feet start to tap. Maybe my body starts to move from one place. And at this party it was no different. At this party there was a bunch of people, a bunch of folks, and they would just be dancing. They would be doing all sorts of different dancing, and most of these dances that they did were standing up, were standing up just like how I'm standing up right now. And one day, I don't know if there was an exciting song playing at one of these parties, but one day someone went from dancing, standing up, and then they went down to the floor. And that's how breaking started. I'm not sure what move they went to go down, but they went down to the floor and started doing moves on the floor. And that changed everything, okay? But we're not going to start with moves on the floor. We're going to start with moves standing upright, standing up just like this. We're going to start with move called top rock. And top rock is when you stand up and you stay upright, use your arms, use your hands, use your feet, but you don't really go down, okay? So top rocks are moves you do when you're standing up from the floor. And we're going to do some basic top rock steps. We're going to do three different steps, and they're all two steps. They're all two steps because they go like one, two. They take two steps each, as you might guess, but I'm going to stand like this. My feet are kind of open. My feet are kind of open, but they're not super open where I'm about to do the splits. I don't want to fall right now. They're not super close together, so my feet are touching. They're a little open about shoulder width. They're under my shoulders right here, okay? So this is our beginning position. And then for the first part of two step, I'm going to step to the front. This is a front two step, and my foot stepped to the front kind of in the middle. Now I'm going to step back just like that. So I'm going to count that. It's called a two step because one, two has two steps just like that. But now I'm going to use the other foot to step to the front. One, two, just like that. But that's not it. I'm going to keep going, so go from one foot to the other, taking turns like this. One, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two. Hmm, that was kind of boring, wasn't it? You know what? You could use your hands when you do top rocks. You could kind of bounce when you do top rocks. You could turn your head or turn your face when you do top rocks. It doesn't just have to be like this much. One, two, one, two, one, two. It can be if you choose because I don't know if you know, but you're an artist, especially now that you're dancing, you're a dancer. So I'm standing up, feet open like this. Then I'm going to step to the front with my feet. One, two, one, two, one, two, just like this. And I hope you're following along actually. So if you're not dancing it, I invite you to start trying moves right now. So I'm standing up, feet open, and then when I step to the front, my arms are going to open, then close when I step back open. Close when I step back, one, two, one, two. I hope you're joining me and one, two, all together. One, two, one, two. You can change your arms. One, two, one, two, or one, two, one, two, or one, two, one, two, stop. Okay? So that's front two step. I was stepping to the front, so that is the front two step. Now I'm going to step to the side. So this is the second one step, two step to top rocks. And my feet are open. Then I'm going to step to the side with my feet like this. Feet open. Actually, you know what? Let's close our feet a little bit. So still not all the way close together, but just a little close. Okay? Ready, set, step to the side. One, two, one, two, stop. Two, one, two. Join me when you're ready. One, two, one, two. I'm going to move my hands. One, two, one, two. One, two, one, two. One, two, one, two. One, two, one, and stop. Good. Let's see. Oh, there's one more top rock I want to show you. And it's another two step, and it's still very basic. We're going to step to the back instead of the front or the side. So we're going to step to the back, and it's still a two step. So I'm going to say one, two. Ready, go. One, two, one, two, one, two. Do it with me. One, two, one, two, one, two. Step to the back, and one, two, one, two, one, two, one, and stop. Perfect. Great job. Now, you know what? Let's do all three of those top rocks. I'm going to start with the front, go to the sides, and then go to the back. Okay. You don't have to do it the exact same time as me, but guess what? You don't have to do it the exact same way as me either. If you're doing your top rock a little different, good. We actually love that in hip hop and breaking. We want you to look a little different. You don't have to look like Anna Banana-Freeze. Okay? So let's do it. Front step, side step, and back step. Ready? Set, go. One, two, one, two, step to the front. And actually, you know what? I'm going to stop saying one, two, because when you're dancing, you don't really count. You just feel and you move, okay? And now I'm going to go to the side. One, two, one, two, or not. Go. Step to the back, back, back, back, back, back, and stop. Okay. I'm not sure how much physical activity you've been getting while you haven't been in school, but if that was your first time and a long time moving and getting off your couch, congratulations. I'm a little winded because I haven't been dancing that much either, so this is practice for me too. Now, let's do that again one more time, except this time I'm just going to say go. I'm just going to say go. If you want to do a different top rock, maybe you have an idea of a move you want to do that's standing up. You could totally do that right now, okay? I'm just going to do some top rocks too, but I'm still going to say go. Okay, so get ready. Ready, set, go. You could step to the front still, step to the back. You could take turns with your feet or maybe one foot is really excited to dance, and you could step multiple ways, lots of different ways with one foot and the other foot could stay down on the floor. Maybe you could keep going back and forth. Maybe you want to jump around and hop or like this and hop. Maybe you want to turn. Maybe you want to jump. Any top rocks you want to do. And three, two, one, and stop. That made me a little sweaty. If you need to pause this video and take a little water break, you can do that. Okay, I'm back. I don't think I need some water right now, so I'm going to keep going. Those were our top rocks. Those were the moves that we do when we're standing up and we're breaking. But now you know what? I think I'm ready to go down to the floor. When you go down to the floor and breaking, it's called a drop or a get down. And drops are my favorite moves to do right now. I love finding different ways to get down to the floor. And we're going to do a really, really, really simple way of getting down right now. First, feet open. And let's pretend, actually, you know what? Let's do a few top rocks first. So ready, set, top rock. Ready, set, and stop. So when I stop, my feet ended up a little open like this. So if your feet didn't end up open like this, go ahead and have your feet open right now. And then for the drop, we're going to step back first. Ready, set, step back. Did you hear that? I kind of stomped. I kind of stomped. It's kind of like a very sassy step back. So I'm going to step again. Ready, set, step back. That was a little loud. If there's someone taking a nap downstairs or you have to be quiet, you don't have to stomp very loud. I'm going to do that again one more time. Ready, set, step back. After I step back, the knee or the foot that step back, that knee is going to go down. So go down. Oh, did you notice my other knee is in front like this. Maybe yours is too. So since it's here, I want to rest a little bit like this. Rest. And when you're resting, when you're stopping movement and breaking, it's called a freeze. So this is actually a drop or a freeze. So let's try that again. Ready? So we went down. Ready, set, freeze. Hold it. Okay. Okay. Let's try a different one. Do a different pose than you did from the last one. Ready, set, freeze. So my knee's still down. And this knee is still in front too, but I chose a different position to freeze at. We're going to do one more different one. Ready, set, freeze. So that was another freeze. But you know what? I totally just realized that we didn't practice the actual going down part of that move. So let's do that two times. Ready? Feet open. Ready, set, step back. Ready, set, go down and freeze. Did you notice I freeze right away once I went down to the floor? I'm going to do that again. Stand up. Feet open. And this time when you step back though, do something cool with your arms. It could be like this. It could be like this. It could be like this. Ready, set, and freeze. That wasn't a freeze. Actually, that was a freeze. And a step back. Let's do that again. I'm going to say ready, set, step back. Ready, set, step back. And then we do freeze for a moment. Then we go down and freeze right away. Nice job. And you could find different ways of freezing down like this. You could freeze like this. Maybe one hand could be up. Maybe, maybe. I don't know. You end up doing something else. But we went down and we went 20. And this is our freeze on the floor. You know what? My memory is not very good. So, oh, oh, I think I want to review the moves so I could remember them. A lot of times when I learn moves, I learn everything and it's really fun. But then at the end, I forget all the moves I learned. So I want to make sure you don't forget to stand up. And we're going to review the top rocks. We did three top rocks today. Front two step, side two step, and back two step. Try it with me. Okay, ready, set, and you can move your arms however you want. Ready, set, go. This is front two step. I'm not going to count. I don't think you need me to count anymore. But if it's helpful, you can count for yourself and say one, two, one, two. Now I'm going to go to the side. And I'm changing my arms. Sometimes I like to roll my hands when I'm stepping to the side and go back, back, like this, back, back. Ready, stop. Now that we did our top rocks, let's review the one drop that we learned today. It starts with our feet open. Ready, set, stop, back. Ready, set, go down and freeze. Okay, you hold still, freeze, whatever position you want. My knee in front is up. And my leg that I stepped back with, my knee ended up going down. All right, so that's all for the lesson today. The next video, we're actually going to have some music playing, and we're going to do some reviews, but also learn a new drop and maybe start doing some moves on the floor. And a banana freeze, thanks for watching.