La Urban Dance Factory

La Urban Dance Factory, more known as "la Urban" is a dance school located in Barcelona. Thanks to its history and experience it has achieved a national and international recognition. It is specialized in urban dances and directed by Irene Pallarés and Sarah Coral, two Spanish dancers who are ones of the best in the country. It also have a big team of professionals all them trained hard in their styles and constantly learning more.
Apart from searching the apprenticeship and the professionality it is a school that wants to teach their students how to have fun dancing and how to feel and enjoy the music.
They work on different styles and on different categories: initiation, intermediate, advanced, junior and infantile.
Location
It is located in Barcelona, one of the most important cities in Spain. The school is in the street Rossend Arús 13-15 and about ten minutes from Sants Station.
Styles
As it is said in the introduction, the school is specialized in urban dances but it works with a lot of different styles:
· New Style: for infantile, junior, initiation and two more levels of difficulty.
· Old School:
# Poppin': a style that appeared in the west coast of USA and fundamentally in Los Angeles during the '70s. It is based on explosive and broken movements and it has that name because of it is similar to popcorn when it is being cooked.
# Lockin': also appeared in Los Angeles during the 70's and it is really expressive and comic. Based on fast an coordinated movements with a "lock" on each one of them.
· DANCEHALL: it was born in Jamaica and the Antilles and danced with ragga music. Based on pelvic movements and also corrugated and repetitive ones.
· Lyrical Jazz
· JazzFunk: a dynamic way of dancing with a lot of expression and style. Based on strong and energetic movements combined with jazz technique.
· Krump: a type of Clowning based on strong movements centred in the top part of the body. It is also a positive way to end up with your accumulated anger.
In the school there are some competition groups which compete in different categories and are directed by different choreographers.

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