Hip

Hop
What is Hip Hop?
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 its origins in the
Bronx, in New York
City, during the 1970s,
mostly among African
Americans and some
influence of Latin
Americans.
 FOUR MAIN
Hip hop has

PARTS/PILLARS:
a)Rapping
b)DJ-ing
c)Graffiti Art
d)B-boying
(Breakdancing)
Other elements include:

- beatboxing
- hip hop fashion
- hip hop slang
These different parts
showed what city life was
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 gave
young people of
minority groups a
voice to let their
issues be noticed.
Early hip hop has often
been credited with
helping to reduce inner-
city gang violence by
replacing physical
violence with dance
and artwork battles.
Hip hop culture became
an outlet and a way of
dealing with the
hardships of life as
minorities within
America, and an outlet
to deal with violence
and gang culture.
However, as Hip Hop
has become more
popular, the meaning
and messages have
changed to include
negative things.
Many who appreciate
old school hip hop are
trying to challenge the
new hip hop. They
don’t want hip hop to
be used in a bad way.
Hip Hop Fashion
 Sportswear/Hats
 Tracksuits
 Sneakers
 BrightColors
 New Haircuts
 Sunglasses
 Jewelry (Bling)
STREE
T
DANCE
Street dance 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.
A full street dance is a
collection of the various
similar dance moves and
styles collected into one
practice and regarded as
the same dance.
- The term is used
to describe
vernacular dances
in urban context.
STREET &
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.
B-BOYING
An athletic style of 
street dance.
B-Boys means “break
boys”
Kool Herc
Apractitioner of this
dance is called a
b-boy, b-girl, or breaker.
 B-boying and breaking
are the original terms.
FOUR MOVEMENTS:
 TOPROCK -footwork-oriented steps
performed while standing up
 DOWNROCK - footwork performed
with bothhands and feet on the floor
 FREEZES- stylish poses done on your
hands
 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.
POPPING
It is based onthe
technique of quickly
contracting and
relaxing muscles to
cause a jerk in a
dancer’s body.
Popping forces parts of your
body outwards, similar to an
explosion within parts of your
body. Popping also contracts
muscles, but it is followed by
relaxation that gives it the
jerking appearance of
popping.
LOCKING
Locking or campbellocking,
was created by Don
Campbellock Campbell in
1969 in Los Angeles,
California.
Popularized by 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.
In locking, dancers hold their
positionslonger.
Locking can be identified
by its distinctive stops.
It is usually performed by
stoppingthefast movement
that you are doing, locking
your body into a position,
holding it, and then
continuing at the same
speed as before.
KRUMPING
“Kingdom Radically
Uplifted Mighty Praise”
Created by “Tight Eyez”
and “Big Mijo” during
early 2000s.
KRUMPING
originated in the
African-American
community of South
Central Los Angeles,
California
KRUMPING
a relatively new form of
the “Urban” Black dance
movement
free,expressive and
highly energetic
KRUMPING
Most people paint
theirfaces in different
designs.
Krumping is adance
style releasing anger.
KRUMPING
 It is reported that
gang riots in the United
States was minimized
because of krumping
style.
TUTTING
Itis a creative way
of making geometric
shapesforming right
angleusing your body
parts.
TUTTING
The style was originally
practiced by young funk
dancers.
It is derived from the
positions people were
drawn in duringthedaysof
theAncient Egyptians.
TUTTING
It is the positions seen in these
portraits that have been
adopted by dancers today.
Tutting is still a greatly
respected move and King Tut
a.k.a. 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 that originated in the
late 1980s in the underground
rave music scene in
Melbourne, Australia.
SHUFFLING
The basicmovements
in the dance are afast
heel-and-toe action
with a style suitable for
various types of
electronic music.
SHUFFLING
People who dance the
shuffle are often referred
to as rockers, due in part
to the popularityof
shuffling to rock music in
the early 1990s.
WAACKING
Waacking 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
YorkCity.
WAACKING
 Waacking consists
of stylized posing and
fast synchronized arm
movements to the
beat of the music.
WAACKING
Today,
waacking is a
popular element
of hip hop dance.