[P.E.
] UNIT 3: ACTIVE
RECREATION
STREET & HIP-
HOP DANCES
POINTS TO REMEMBER
STREET
DANCE
▸ Refers to dance styles that
have evolved outside of
dance studios;
▸ Performed in streets, dance
parties, parks, school yards,
or in any available space;
TEXT
▸Often improvisational and
social in nature, encouraging
interaction and contact with
spectators and other dancers;
▸FULL STREET DANCE is a
collection of various similar
dance moves and styles put
together into one practice and
regarded as the same dance.
POINTS TO REMEMBER
HIP-HOP
▸ Cultural movement best known for its
impact on music in the form of the
musical genre of the same name;
▸ Origins in the Bronx, New York City
during the 1970’s
▸ Mostly among African Americans and
some influence of Latin Americans
▸Pillars: DJ-ing, Rapping,
breakdancing, and grafitti art;
▸Hip-hop dance refers to street
dance styles primarily
performed to hip-hop music or
that have evolved as part of
hip-hop culture
B-BOYING
▸ Or breaking; breakdancing;
▸ Style of street dance and the first hip-hop
dance style that originated among Black nd
Puerto Rican youths in New York City, 1970’s
FOUR MOVEMENTS OF B-BOYING
▸ Toprock (footwork-oriented steps performed
while standing up)
▸ Downrock (footwork performed with both
hands and feet on the floor
FOUR MOVEMENTS OF B-BOYING
▸ Freezes (stylish poses done on your
hands)
▸ Power moves (comprise full-body spins
and rotations that give the illusion of
defying gravity.
POPPING
▸ Popularized by Samuel Boogaloo Sam
Solomon and his crew, the Electric Boogaloos;
▸ 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;
▸ Also contracts muscles,muscles, followed by
relaxation that gives it the jerking appearance
of popping.
LOCKING
▸ Or “Campbellocking”;
▸ Created by Don Campbellock Campbell in 1969 in Los
Angeles, California;
▸ Popularized by his crew, THE LOCKERS;
▸ Characterized by frequently locking in place and after a
brief freeze moving again;
LOCKING
▸ Can be identified by its distinctive stops;
▸ 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 before;
▸ Dancers hold their position longer;
▸ Lock is the primary move used in locking, similar to freeze or a
sudden pause
KRUMPING
▸ Originated in the African-American community of South
Central Los Angeles, California;
▸ Relatively new form of the “Urban” Black dance movement;
▸ Free, expressive and highly energetic; most people paint their
faces in different designs;
▸ Dance style to release anger;
TUTTING
▸ Creative way of making geometric shapes forming right
angle using your body parts;
▸ Originally practiced by young funk dancers;
▸ Derived from the positions people were drawn during
the days of the Ancient Egyptians
▸ Mark Benson pioneered this dance style.
SHUFFLING
▸ Also known as Melbourne Shuffle/ Rocking or simply The
Shuffle;
▸ Rave and club dance that originated in the late 1980s in
Melbourne, Australia;
▸ Fast heel-and-toe action with a style suitable for various types
of electronic music
▸ People who perform shuffling are often called rockers
WAACKING
▸ African-American form of street dance originating
from 1970s disco era of club scenes in Los
Angeles and New York City
▸ Consists of stylized posing and fast synchronized
arm movements to the beat of the music.
