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Hip Hop Dance and Street Dance

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hip-hop dance and street dance

History of hip-hop
• Began in the late 1960s
• Refers to a wide range of street
dance styles
• This dance was made popular
by dance crews in United
States
• It is a distinctive and lively
street dance technique that is
most commonly done to hip-
hop music
Rap (Mcing)

• The most visible individual


function in hip-hop culture.
• In charge of entertaining the
audience by delivering rhymes in
rhythmic mmanner
• The act of singing or
rhythmically rhyming while a DJ
plays beats.
DJing

• Short term for disc


jockeying
• It is the moniker given to
those who are capable of
creating new music
• The artistic handling of
beats and music
Graffiti

• A form of hip-hop culture


that is both artistic and
visual
• It is a reflection of hip-hop
culture that belongs to its
audience.
• Street art is usually image-
based while graffiti is word-
B-Boying

• A type of street dance


that began in New York
City in the early 1970s
• Marked by complicated
floor work, often
involving spinning and
contorting
Beatboxing

• A musical artform in
which the performer
uses his or her vocal
tract to approximate
percussion beats and
other sound effects
different hip-hop dance styles
breakdancing

• The earliest hip-hop dance


style
• It combines acrobatics,
gymnastics, and rhythm
• This involves unstructured and
improvisational movements
which are performed at
different levels
elements of breakdancing

TOprock Downrock
Refers to footwork-oriented Refers to footwork performed
steps performed while with both hands and feet on
standing the floor
freeze power moves
hold your body still for a most striking moves are
period of time usually circular motions
popping

• A dance style involves


jerking movements that
resemble muscular
contractions. It was created
by Sam Solomon and it was
performed first by the
Electric Boogaloos dance
locking

• Distinguished by its different


stops
• This involves freezing from a
fast movement and locking
the body in a certain
position
• Created by Don Campbell
krumping

• It is a newer kind of “urban”


black dance that started in
South Central Los Angeles,
California
• It is a free-flowing,
expressive, and invigorating
• It is performed in order to
release anger
tutting

• A unique way of producing


right-angle geometric forms
with your body parts
• Young funk dancers were the
original performers of
tutting.
shuffling

• An underground rave and club


dance that began in
Melbourne, Australia
• Basic movements are a quick
heel-and-toe action with a
style that may be adapted to
many sorts of electronic music
Waacking

• Originated in the
underground club scenes of
Los Angeles and New York
City
• Characterized by stylized
posing and rapid
synchronized arm
Boogaloo

• It involves rolling the hips,


knees, legs, and head
• It also demonstrates very
loose movements, causing
the audience to think that
the performers of the dance
have no bones
Street dance
• Refers to a dance style
which is typically
performed in streets,
parks, school yards, raves,
nightclubs, and other open
spaces
• It has been developed
outside of the dance studio
break dance

• This form of street dance


involves more acrobatic
movements
• It was originally danced to
the “break” in a piece of
music, hence, gaining the
name of “break dance”
Popping

• A dance style in which


the dancer tightens and
relaxes his or her
muscles to produce jerk-
like movements that are
usually rhythmic
Locking

• It is usually performed by
pausing a fast movement,
holding for few seconds, and
then continuing at the same
pace
• In this form of street dance,
to lock means to freeze or
pause suddenly
hip-h0p dance

• It incorporates popping,
locking, breaking, house,
krumping, and other
dance forms which can
also be performed
separately on their own.
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