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HIP-HOP/STREETDANCE

HIP-HOP DANCING ORIGINATED IN NEW YORK CITY


DURING THE LATE 1960’S AND EARLY 70’S,
PRIMARILY BY INDIVIDUALS LACKING FORMAL
TRAINING BUT POSSESSING A NATURAL TALENT FOR
MOVEMENT. THIS DANCE FORM WAS DESIGNED TO
BE ACCESSIBLE TO THE PUBLIC RATHER THAN TO
CONFINED TO ACADEMIC SETTINGS. INFLUENCE BY
COMPLEX RHYTHM AND AFRICAN DANCE STYLES.
HISTORY OF HIPHOP
The word “hip” was used as African
American Vernacular English (AAVE)
as early as 1904. The colloquial
language meant “informed” or
“current”, and was likely derived
from the earlier form hep.
Hip-hop Dance refers to street
dances styles primarily performed to
hip-hop music or that have evolved
as part of hip-hop culture. It includes
a wide range of styles primarily
breaking, locking, and popping which
were created in the 1970s.
JAMES BROWN
In its earliest form, it began
as elaborations on James
Brown’s “Good Foot” dance
which came out in 1972.
Breaking at this period was
not primarily floor-oriented
as seen today; it started out
as top rock which dancers
DJ KOOL HERC
In 1973, DJ Kool Herc
invented the break beat.
A break beat is a rhythmic,
music interlude of a song
that has been looped over
and over again to extend

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CLASSICAL LITERATU
that instrumental solo.
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FUNK STYLES
The funk style refers to
several street dance
styles created in
California in the 1970s
such as roboting,
bopping, hitting, locking,
bustin’, popping, electric
boogaloo, strutting, sac-
ing, and dime-stopping.
BOOGALOO

Out of all these dances, boogaloo is one


of the oldest. It started out as a 1960s
fad dance and was the subject of
several songs released during that time
such as “Do the Boogaloo” and “My
Baby Likes to Boogaloo”. From being a
fad, it developed into a dance style
called electric boogaloo and a music
genre called Latin boogaloo.
MAIN STYLES
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Is a circular shaped
CYPHER dance space formed by
BREAKING spectators that breakers
use to perform or battle
/B-BOYING in.

APACHE LINES

Breaking was Are more appropriate when


created in the South the battle is between two
Bronx, New York City crew-teams of street
during the early dancers.
1970s. It is the first
hip-hop dance styles.
Locking, originally called
LOCKING Campbellocking, was created
in 1969 in Los Angeles,
Califoria by Don
“Campbellock” Campbell and
popularized by his crew The
Lockers.
Is a style of funk dance,
LOCKING which means freezing froma
fast movement in a certain
position, holding that position
for a short while and then
continuing at the same speed
as before.
Popping was created in Fresno,
POPPING California in the 1970s and
popularized by Samuel
“Boogaloo Sam” Solomon and
his crew the Electric Boogaloos.

Popping is also used as an


umbrella term to refer to a
wide range of closely related
illusionary dance styles such as
strobing, liquid, animation,
twisto-flex, and waving.
14 STEPS OF AN OLD SCHOOL HIPHOP
DANCERS
1. The Heavy D Shake - shake
moves from the right-left with a
single-single-double-double step.
2. The Humpty Dance – this one you
could actually do with a female and
it had its own song with it.
3. The Robocop – it was basically the
robot breaking and powering down
or back up.
4. The Running Man – it is a classic
but its diluted and made into a joke.
You really couldn’t do it with another
person, you looked dumb.
5. The Troop – it was almost like
stationary running man, but you
6. The Steve Martin – this dance move
developed from the actors move in 1980’s
film.
7. The Roger Rabbit – one of the silliest
dance moves you’ve probably seen out
around town actually has a name.
8. The Reebok – a dance that a lot of
people did but didn’t know it was. The key
to the reebok was what you did in the
middle, you had to shake it up and make it
9. The Biz Dance – created by the
diabolical Biz Markie, one of the
funkiest dance out.
10. The Cabbage Patch – played out
for a while and definitely fun of. It was
very popular and easy to do.
11. The Fila – a mix of the cabbage
patch and something else, it was side
to side with a dip.
12. The Wop – it is the dance point
blank period. It’s the easiest of the
dances, and when you make it funky
with the arm’s its incredible.

13. The Prep – you checked the mirror,


dusted off your shoulders, mushed
your partners faced, put your nose in
the air, that wing flap thing you did
14. The Smurf – a dance that people
did forever and didn’t know that’s what
it was.

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