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Where Did Hip Hop Dance Come From

Hip hop dance originated from styles created by Black and Latino Americans in New York City in the late 1960s and 1970s, including uprock, breaking, locking, and popping. These styles were performed to hip hop music and evolved alongside the hip hop culture. In the 1970s, hip hop began developing in the South Bronx as an underground movement focused on emceeing, break beats, and house parties. Some of the original hip hop dance styles included breaking, popping, locking, and the electric boogaloo. Later styles have included krumping, tutting, shuffling, and waacking.

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Where Did Hip Hop Dance Come From

Hip hop dance originated from styles created by Black and Latino Americans in New York City in the late 1960s and 1970s, including uprock, breaking, locking, and popping. These styles were performed to hip hop music and evolved alongside the hip hop culture. In the 1970s, hip hop began developing in the South Bronx as an underground movement focused on emceeing, break beats, and house parties. Some of the original hip hop dance styles included breaking, popping, locking, and the electric boogaloo. Later styles have included krumping, tutting, shuffling, and waacking.

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Where did hip hop dance come from?

the history of hip hop dance encompasses the people and events since the late 1960s that have
contributed to the development of the early hip hop dance styles

Uprock, breaking, locking, roboting, boogaloo, and popping.

Black and Latino Americans created uprock and breaking in New York City.

Is hip hop a dance style?

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

It includes a wide of styles primarily breaking, locking, and popping whichwere created in the 1970’s and
made popular by dance crews in the United States.

Where did hip hop come from?

In the 1970s, an underground urban movement known as “hip hop” began to develop in the south
Bronx in new york city. It focused om emceeing (or MCing), break beats, and house parties. Jamaican-
born DJ Clive “Kool Herc” Campbell was highly influential in the pioneering stage of hip hop music.

B-BOYING also called breakdancing.

First hip hop dance style that originated among black and puerta rican youth in the new york city during
the early 1970’s.

POPPING was popularized by Samuel boogaloo sam Solomon and his crew the electric boogaloos

It is technique of quickly contracting and relaxing muscles to cause a jerk in dancer’s body.

LOCKING was created by Don Campbellock Campbel in 1969 in Los Angeles, California. 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.

KRUMPING is a form of dancing that originated in the African-American community of south Central Los
Angeles California. Relatively form of “urban” Black dance movement.

Is a dance style to release anger.

TUTTING it is creative way in making geometric shapes forming right angle using your body part.

It is derived from the positions people were drawn in during the days of the Ancient Egyptians.

SHUFFLING The Melbourne Shuffle is a rave and club dance that originated in the late 1980s.

People who dance the shuffle are often referred to as rockers, due in part to the popularity of shuffling
in the early 1990’s.

WAACKING is an African American form of street dance originating from 1970’s disco era.
It consists of stylized posing and fast synchronized arm movements to the beat of the music.

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