Grade 10 - Physical
Education
Street and Hip-
Hop Dance
Styles
Street 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.
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.
Hip-Hop
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 DJ-ing and rapping, along
with things like beat boxing,
B-Boy or Break Dance
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
B-Boy or Break Dance
Toprock
footwork - oriented steps
performed while
standing up
B-Boy or Break Dance
Downrock
footwork performed with
both hands and feet on the
floor
B-Boy or Break Dance
Freezes
stylish poses done on
your hands
B-Boy or Break Dance
Power moves
comprise full-body, spins
and rotations that give the
illusion
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.
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
Locking
Locking or campbellocking,
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
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 a
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 is a dance style to release
Tutting
It 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
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
aka Mark Benson is widely
acclaimed for pioneering the
The Melbourne Shuffle (also
Shuffling 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. The
basic movements of the
dance are a fast heel-and-toe
action with a style suitable for
various types of electronic
People who dance the
shuffle are often referred
to as rockers, due in part
to the popularity of
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 York City,
Waacking consists of stylized
posing and fast synchronized arm
movements to the beat of the
music. Today, waacking is a
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