Other Dance Forms (Hip-hop, Street dance, Cheer dance, Contemporary dance)

Hiphop Dance

A vibrant form of dance that combines a variety of freestyle movements to create a cultural piece of art.

popping, locking, and breaking

The three main styles of hiphop dance.

- Increases Stamina and Endurance
- Tones the Abdominal and Strengthens the Core
- Aids Weight Loss
- Strengthens the Heart

What are the benefits of hiphop dance?

Street Dance

This refers to dance styles that have evolved outside of dance studios. It is performed in streets, dance parties, parks, school yards, or in any available space. It is often improvisational and social in nature, encouraging interaction and contact with spectators and other dancers.

Hip-Hop

This is a cultural movement best known for its impact on music in the form of the musical genre of the same name. Hip-hop culture is composed of the pillars such as DJ-ing, rapping, breakdancing, and graffiti art.

Bronx, New York

Where did hiphop start?

Hip-hop dance

This refers to street dance styles primarily performed to hip-hop music or that have evolved as part of hip-hop culture.

DJ-ing, Rapping

What are the iconic elements of hiphop?

B-Boying

This is 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.

Top Rock

B-Boying:

footwork-oriented steps performed while standing up.

Down Rock

B-Boying:

footwork performed with both hands and feet on the floor.

Freezes

B-Boying:

Stylish poses done on your hands.

Power Moves

B-Boying:

Comprises full body spins and rotations that give the illusion of defying gravity.

popping

This 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. It forces the body outwards like an explosion and contracts muscles.

Locking

This was created by Don Campbellock Campbell in 1969 in Los Angeles, California. It was popularized by his crew, The Lockers.

This 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.

lock

Primary move in locking. It is similar to a freeze or a sudden pause.

Krumping

This 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 is a dance style to release anger.

Tutting

This is a creative way of making geometric shapes forming right angle using your body parts. The style was originally practiced by young funk dancers. It is derived from the positions people were drawn in during the days of the Ancient Egyptians.

Shuffles

Also known as 'The Rock' and 'The Melbourne Shuffle'. It is a rave and club dance that originated in the late 1980s in the underground rave music scene 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.

Waacking

This is an African American form of street dance originating from the 1970's disco era of the underground club scenes in Los Angeles and New York City.

- It consists of stylized posing and fast synchronized arm movements to the beat of the music.

- Today, it is a popular element of hip hop dance.

- Physical Health
- Mental Health
- Anaerobic
- Social
- Cognitive

Which parts of health does Hiphop Dance benefit?