HIP HOP Dance Styles

Objectives:
• At the end of the lesson, you should be able to:

1. familiarize yourselves in hip hop dance and its dance

styles,

2. value the importance of hip-hop dances and it styles;

3. to execute hip hop dance and its dance styles through

performance
ZUMBA DANCE
Watch a video of UP Street Dance Club and
answer the follow up question after.
Processing Question:

1. What do you feel about Filipino dancers

competing worldwide?

2. How do these dancers sustain their fitness?

3. What are the hip-hop and street dance

style evident in their performance?
HIP HOP DANCE
✔ Hip-hop dance, on the other hand, refers to
street dance styles primarily performed to hip-
hop music or that have evolved as part of hip-
hop culture.

✔ Hip-hop music incorporates a number of iconic

elements, most notably DJing and rapping,
along with things like beat boxing, sampling,
and juggling beats on turntables.
HIP HOP
DANCE
STYLES
B-Boying
✔ B-boying or breaking, also called breakdancing,
is a style of street dance and the first hip-hop
dance style that originated among Black and
Puerto Rican youths in New York City during
the early 1970s.
✔ A practitioner of this dance is called a b-boy, b-
girl, or breaker.
✔ Although the term breakdance is frequently
used to refer to the dance, b-boying and
breaking are the original terms.
B-Boying
✔ The terms of “b-boy” (break-boy), “b-girl”
(break-girl”, and “breaker” are the original
terms used to describe the dancers.

✔ The obvious connection of the term “breaking”

is to the word “breakbeat”, but DJ Kool Herc
has commented that the term “breaking” was
slang at the time for “getting excited”, “acting
energetically” or “causing a disturbance”.
FOUR MOVEMENTS:
1. Toprock footwork - oriented steps
performed while standing up.

2. Downrock - footwork performed with both

hands and feet on the floor.

3. Freezes - stylish poses done on your hands.

4. Power moves - comprise full-body spins and

rotations that give the illusion of defying
gravity
POPPING

✔ Popping was popularized by Samuel

Boogaloo Sam Solomon and his crew the
Electric Boogaloos.

✔ It is based on the technique of quickly

contracting and relaxing muscles to cause a
jerk in a dancer’s body.
 LOCKING
✔ Locking or campbelocking was created by Don
Campbellock

✔ Campbell in 1969 in Los Angeles, California. It

was popularized by his crew, The Lockers.

✔ Locking can be identified by its distinctive stops.

It is usually performed by stopping the fast
movement that you are doing, locking your body
into a position, holding it, and then continuing at
the same speed as before.
 LOCKING
✔ In locking, dancers hold their position longer.

✔ The lock is the primary move used in locking. It

is similar to a freeze or a sudden pause.

✔ A locker’s dancing is characterized by frequently

locking in place and after brief freeze moving
again.
 KRUMPING
✔ Krumping is a form of dancing that originated in
the African-American community of South
Central Los Angeles, California, and is a
relatively new form of the “Urban” Black dance
movement.

✔ It is free, expressive, and highly energetic. Most

people paint their faces in different designs.
 KRUMPING
✔ Krumping is a dance style to release anger.

✔ It is reported that gang riots in the United States

decreased because of the Krumping style.
 TUTTING
✔ It is a creative way of making geometric shapes
forming right angles using your body parts.

✔ The style was originally practiced by young funk

dancers.

✔ It is derived from the positions people drowned

during the days of the Ancient Egyptians
 TUTTING
✔ It is the position seen in this portrait that has
been adopted by dancers today.

✔ Tutting is still a greatly respected move and King

Tut aka Mark Benson is widely acclaimed for
pioneering the style.
 SHUFFLING
✔ The Melbourne Shuffle (also known as rocking or
simply The Shuffle) is a rave and club dance
originated in the late 1980s in the underground
rave music seen in Melbourne, Australia.

✔ The basic movements of the dance are a fast-

heel and toe action with a style suitable for
various types of electronic music.
 SHUFFLING
✔ Some variants incorporate arm movements.

✔ People who danced the shuffle are often referred

to as rockers, due in part to the popularity of
shuffling to rock music in the early 1990s.
 SHORT QUIZ
1. What is one of the B-boying four movements
which comprise full-body spins and rotations?
A. Super Moves C. Super Spins
B. Power Moves D. Power Kicks

2. What African-American dance form originated

from the disco era in New York City?
A. Waacking C. Popping
B. Tutting D. Krumping
 WAAKING
✔ Waacking is an African-American form of street
dance originating from the 1970’s disco era of
the underground club seen in Los Angeles in New
York City.

✔ Waacking consists of stylized posing and fast

synchronized arm movements to the beat of the
music.

✔ Today, waacking is a popular element of hip-hop

dance.
 ACTIVITY

Analyze each video to be shown and assess

the dance style and they will identify the fitness
components that are developed.
 SHORT QUIZ
2. What form of street dance is performed
impromptu in large crowds?
A. Rave Dance C. Street Dance
B. Hip-hop Dance D. Punk Dance

3. What culture is created by Dj-ing, rapping,

breakdancing, and graffiti art?
A. Hip-Hop Culture C. Hip-Hop Style
B. Hip-Hop Motion D. Hip-Hop Group
 SHORT QUIZ
5. What dance style is primarily performed to hip-hop
music and has evolved as part of hip-hop culture?
A. Jazz C. Combination of Hip-Hop and Ballet
B. Hip-Hop Jazz D. Hip-Hop Dance

6. What hip-hop style is based on the technique of

quickly contracting and relaxing muscles to cause a
jerk in the dancer’s body?
A. Krumping C. Shuffling
B. Popping D. Waacking