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a Belgian dance that's just running away from the ground at maximum velocity.
means Jumpstyle is an energetic electronic dance music genre and its associated dance, in which dancers perform a fast, bouncing, kicking-and-jumping step in time to a hard, stomping beat.
from A compound of plain English 'jump' and 'style' — but the thing itself is thoroughly Continental, emerging from the Belgian and Dutch club scene in the early 2000s as an offshoot of harder electronic genres like hardcore and jumpstyle's parent 'hard house.' The name does exactly what it says: it's a style built on jumping. 'Jump' traces back through Middle English to a likely imitative root — a word that sounds a bit like the thud of landing — while 'style' comes via Old French from Latin 'stilus,' the writing-stick that gave us 'manner of doing things.'
- origin
- Born in 1990s Belgian and Dutch hardcore clubs.
- the move
- Kicks, hops, and backward shuffles in fast loops.
- tempo
- Synced to roughly 140-150 beats per minute.
- went viral
- YouTube tutorials exploded the craze across Europe.
- team sport
- Often danced in synchronized lines like marching madness.
technolution — dutch jumpstyle crew that won the 2007 world jumpstyle championship in rotterdam
jorn van deynhoven — dutch dj and producer who created 'jumpstyle' in 2006, popularizing the genre across netherlands and belgium
world jumpstyle championship — annual competition held in rotterdam starting 2007, crowning international jumpstyle dance champions