1.

HIPHOP

The word hip is believed to have been first used in the African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) of
the African-American culture since 1904. This term means “informed” or “current.”

          Hip-hop dance is believed to have started from a street dance and evolved into its form today
through improvisation. Other studies show that a rapper named Robert Keith “Cowboy” Wiggins
coined the term in 1978. At the time, he had a friend who served in the US Army and he used to rap
the word “hip-hop-hip-hop” while mimicking the cadence of marching soldiers. Later, Wiggins
incorporated the “hip-hop” into stage performances.

          Artists performed the dance with goers with the new kind of DJ music and called the dancers
“hip-hoppers”. The DJs created rhythmic beats by looping breaks with a small tone of percussion and
accompanied the beats by “rapping”. This became later known as beat boxing. Hip-hop dance
became the fad of African-Americans and Latino-Americans who developed the steps in New York
City in the 1970s.

          Hip-hop dance then became popular not only in New York City but also on other countries.
Hip-hop culture has been connected with the graffiti craze or the writings and arresting illustrations
painted on walls. These art forms usually express social and political issues.

2. TYPES OF HIPHOP

Types of Hip Hop Dance Styles:

The following are some of the dance styles in hip-hop dance:

1.    Popping – This was created in Fresno, California by Sam Solomon. This style means to act as a “living
robot,” which consists of quick contracting and relaxing muscles, which are called pops or hits. To do this , you
have to move separately every part of your body or to pop your wrist, shoulder, and chest, among others. Go to
this link to see how to do popping:

2.    Isolation- This refers to moving your body parts individually. Isolate your arm, head, and chest to create a
robotic type of move. Go to this link to see how to do isolation

3.    Locking – This was crafted by Don Campbell in Los Angeles, California. It consists of a series of
movements that involves quick action. It is similar to locking one part of your body into another position, and
then freezing it in last position. Hips and legs should remain in a relaxed position while upper extremities
should be moving. The dancers of this style are commonly called lockers. Visit this link to know how to
perform locking 

4..    Breaking- This is also known as break dancing. Dancers are called b-boying and b-girling or breakers. This
style is an improvisation because it evolved from uprock --- another style of dance. It has movements to be
performed at different levels such as toprock when you are standing while performing, downrock when dancers
are close to the floor, power moves when you are doing acrobatics, and freezing while posing. Go to this link to
watch an example of breaking

5.    Whacking or waacking – The performer uses his or her upper body and arms. A “waack” is the strong
swinging or sweeping of the arms in dramatic rapid succession, creating movements like a “human
hummingbird”. The term waacking was coined by Soul Train dancer Tyrone Proctor of the Outrageous Waack
Dancers in 1974. The “Garbo,” meanwhile, was the name given to waacking because of its style of posing like
the models of the 1940s. Waacking is also performed to disco music. Visit and watch to this link to know how
to do waacking:

6.    Vogue or voguing – This became popular in late 1980sin the East Coast in the United States. It is
performed to house music, which was popular at that time. The movement imitated the perfect lines and poses
of models as depicted in fashion magazines such as Vogue, where the dance got its name. no touching is
allowed during vogue competitions, although who displayed creative movements wins the contest. Pantomimes
or imitating the moves of the challenger evolved as a distinct style under vogue dancing. Go to this link to know
how to do voguing:

3. FOUR TYPES OF ELEMENTS

1. Deejaying , or “turntabling”; 2. Rapping, also known as “MCing” or “rhyming”; 3. Graffiti Painting,

also known as “graf” or “writing”; 4. B-boying which encompasses hip hop dance, style , and attitude,
along with the sort of virile body language that philosopher Cornel Wesr described as “postural
semantics”

4. HEALTH BENEFITS OF HIP HOP

Health Benefits of Hip hop

1.    Cardiovascular Fitness

Most forms of dancing will benefit your cardiovascular fitness. This generally results in the ability to
do more exercise in terms of intensity and duration.

          Once your stamina increases, you can incorporate more challenging or complex movements.
Most modern dance difficulty as a student’s fitness improves.

2.    Improved Muscle Tone & Strength

Dance also benefits your muscles, and will both tone and strengthen muscles in your legs, buttocks,
abdominals, back arms and shoulders.

Some forms of dance will work more on certain body parts than others, but you can be sure your
muscles will get a good workout. Just be sure to take the classes and the movement seriously, and
you will progress.

3.    Improved Bone Density

Improved bone density will help with issues like osteoporosis and weight bearing exercise like
dancing is one way to make it happen.

Ballet and other forms of dance typically require a lot of jumping and leaping and helping your bones
all the while.
4.    Flexibility

You can bet all modern dance classes, ballet classes and any other type of class will include a strong
stretching element.

Flexibility is a key to preventing injuries in class, and in your everyday life. being flexible allows you to
move more fluidly and to avoid muscle pulls or tears from trying different dance moves.

5.    Coordination and Agility

Both coordination and agility are important elements in virtually any sport, and even in many non-
athletic day-to-day activities. Being agile and coordinated helps you avoid falls and helps keep you
balanced when working in tight places or carrying heavy items.

Learning any type of dance will automatically boost your coordination and agility, as these two
qualities are essential just to complete basic moves. The more you get into it and perform more
complex move, the greater benefit to your coordination and agility.

6.    Stress Relief

Stress is a culprit in many different health issues, and more are being discovered all the time. Luckily,
dance has the ability to minimize and even eliminate stress from your life.

The physical exertion and learning to move the body with such flow are keys to reducing stress. The
music likely also plays a big role.

7.    Weight Loss

With all of the movement and exertion and activity, it is no wonder that dance is also a good way to
lose weight. Dancing burns calories and burning calories helps you lose weight.

Just remember to observe a healthy diet, so you don’t just add back all of the calories you burn
through your dancing.