Instruction:

Answer the following:

1. What is Hip hop dance?

- Hip-hop dance, which is most frequently performed to hip-hop music, is a distinctive and lively
form of street dancing. Hip-hop dance is a vibrant form of dance that combines a variety of
freestyle movements to create a cultural piece of art. Hip-hop dancing has developed into one
of the most well-known and influential dance genres through its three primary techniques of
popping, locking, and breaking.
2. Give the history of Hip hop dance. (picture supported if need)
- The movements of African dancing served as the initial inspiration for hip-hop dance, which
emerged as a fresh type of dance performed for the general public in the late 1960s and early
1970s. Hip-hop combines music and intricate motions to create art, fusing elements of modern
dance, tap, and swing.

Hip-hop dance's early development and roots are most frequently linked to the East Coast,
more specifically to New York City. But at about the same time, the West Coast developed its
own variation of the East Coast hip-hop dance.

3. What is retro pop dance?

- Retro dance encompasses a wide variety of blues-based genres created between the 1930s
and 1950s. These dance forms differ in terms of their characterisation, emphasis, and structure
to produce clearly linked but separate dances, although they share comparable patterns of
movement, composition, and basic dance material.
4. What are the common retro pop dance?
- Contemporary R&B
- House
- Trance
- Techno
- Electropop
- New Jack Swing
- Funk
- Pop Rock
5. Enumerate the retro pop dance term
- Rockabilly - is one of the earliest styles of rock and roll music. It dates back to the early 1950s
in the United States, especially the South.
- Retropop - is a form of modern-day pop music that sounds like pop from the 1960s.
- Uptempo - an aggressive up-tempo style of music
- Popping dance - is a style of dance that started in the late 1960's and 70's. This dance style is
characterized by sudden tensing and releasing of the muscles ("hitting") to the rhythm of beats
in music.
- Doo-wop - style of rhythm-and-blues and rock-and-roll vocal music popular in the 1950s and
'60s.