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Physical Education Examples of Street Dance

Hip-Hop - House dance
- Refers to street dance styles performed to hip-hop music or part of - Rave dance
hip-hop culture - Hip-hop dance
- Includes a wide range of styles namely breaking, locking, and popping
created in the 70s and made popular by dance crews in the states. Hip-Hop Culture
- Black and Latino Americans created uprock and breaking in New York - DJ
City. - Rapping
- Breakdancing
Origins of Hip-Hop - Graffiti art
- 1970s, an underground movement known as HIP-HOP began to
develop in the South Bronx in New York City.
- Focused on emceeing, breakbeats, and house parties. Street Dance
- Jamaican born, DJ Klive (kool herc) Campbell was highly - Dancing on the street, yard, park, and at raves
influential in hip-hop music.
Types of Hip-Hop Dancing
• Waacking
- African-American form of street dance from 1970s disco era
- Consists of stylized posing and fast synchronized arm movements to the
beat of the music.

• Locking
- Created by Don Campbellock Campbel in 1969 in Los Angeles, California.
- 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.

• Shuffling
- People who dance are often called rockers.
- The Melbourne shuffle is a rave and club dance that originated in the late
1980s

• Tutting
- A creative way of making geometric shapes forming right angles using
body parts.
- Derived from the positions of ancient Egyptian drawings.

• Popping
- Popularized by Samuel Boogaloo, Sam Solomon and his crew.
- The technique of quickly contracting and relaxing muscles to cause a jerk
in dancers body.

• B-Boying
- Also called breakdancing.
- First hip-hop styles that originated from black and puerto rican youths in
early 1970.

• Krumping
- Originated in African-American communities.
- Form of urban black dance movement
- Style to release anger.