STREET AND HIP-HOP

DANCES
In today’s world that is full of stress and pressures, we
all need to engaged in recreational activities to relieve
out tensions like Street dancing and Hip-Hop dances.
 STREET DANCE
• Refers to dance styles that have evolved outside of dance
studios.
• It is performed in streets, dance parties, parks, school yards, or
any in available space.
• It is often improvisational and social in nature, encouraging
interaction and contact with spectators and other dancers.
• A full street dance is a collection of various similar dance moves
and styles put together into one practice and regarded as the
same dance.
 HIP- HOP
• Is a cultural movement best known for its impact on
music in the form of the musical genre of the same
name.
• It has origins in the Bronx, in New York City, During
the 1970’s, mostly among African Americans and some
influence of Latin Americans.
• Hip-Hop culture is composed of the pillars such as:
a. Dj-ing c. Breakdancing

b. Rapping d. graffiti art

STREET AND HIP-HOP DANCE STYLES

A. B-BOYING/ BREAKING
- Also called breakdancing , is a style of street dance and first
hip-hop dance style that originated among Black and Puerto
Rican youths in New York City during the aerly of 1970’s .
- Four movements :1. Toprock 2. Downrock 3. Freezes
4. Power Moves
TOPROCK
DOWNROCK
FREEZES
POWER MOVES
 POPPING

• Popularized by Samuel Solomon and his crew the Electric

Boogaloos.
• Popping forces parts of your body outwards similar to an
explosion and contraction with in your body parts.
POPPING
 LOCKING

• Created by Don Campbell in 1969 and popularized by

his crew, the Lockers.
• It is usually performed by stopping the fast movement,
locking your body into a position, holding it, and then
continuing as the same speed as before.
• Similar to freeze or a sudden pause.
LOCKING
 KRUMPING

• It is free, expressive and highly energetic.

• Krumping is a dance style to release
anger.
KRUMPING
 TUTTING

• It is a creative way of making geometric

figures using your body parts.
• Pioneered by king Tut aka Mark Benson.
TUTTING
 SHUFFLING

• A rave and club dance that originated in the late

1980s.
• Basic movements of the dance are fast hell-and-
Toe action with a style.
 WAACKING

• Waacking is an african American form of street dance

originating from 1970’s disco era in Los Angeles and New
York.
• It is consist of stylized posing and fast synchronized arm
movements to the beat of music.
 QUESTIONS
1. What dance styles, formally known as a vernacular dances, refer to
dances that evolved outside of dance studios?
2. What form of street dance is performed impromptu in a large crowds?
3. What culture is created by Dj-ing, rapping, breakdancing and graffiti art?
4. What dance style is primarily performed to hi-hop musical and have
evolved as part of hip-hop culture?
5. What hip-hop style is based on the technique of quickly contracting and
relaxing muscles to cause a jerk in a dancer’s body?