PE: Hip Hop

• HIP HOP DANCE - refers to street dance styles primarily performed to hip-hop music or that have evolved as part of hip-hop culture
• HIP HOP DANCE - includes a wide range of styles primarily breaking, locking, and popping which were created in the 1970s and made popular by dance crews in the US.
• Black and Latino Americans created uprock and breaking in NYC.
• Hiphop - an underground urban movement
• 1970 - Hiphop began to develop in the South Bronx in NYC. It focused on emceeing, breakbeats, and house parties.
• Popping - technique of quickly contracting and relaxing muscles to cause a jerk in a dancer's body
• Popping - popularized by Samuel “Boogaloo Sam” Solomon and his crew, the Electric Boogaloos.
• B-boying / Breaking (Breakdancing) - first hip-hop dance style that originated among black and puerto rican youth in new york city during the early 1970s.
• Locking - usually performed by stopping the fast movement that you are doing, locking, into a position, holding it and then continuing at the same speed as before
• Locking - Created by Don “Campbellock” Campbel in 1969 in LA
• Krumping - a form of dancing that originated in the African-American community of South Central Los Angeles California
• Krumping - Relatively form of “Urban” Black dance movement
• Krumping - dance style to release anger
• Tutting - creative way in making geometric shapes forming right angle using your body part
• Tutting - Derived from the positions people were drawn in during the days of the ANcient Egyptians
• Melbourne Shuffle - rave and club dance that originated in the late 1980s
• • Rockers people who dance the shuffle, due in part to the popularity of shuffling in the early 1990s
• Waacking consists of stylized posing and fast synchronized arm movements to the beat of the music
• Waacking - African American form of street dance originating from 1970s disco era.
• HIP HOP - cultural movement that attained widespread popularity in the 1980s and 1990s
• HIP HOP - backing music for rap
• Hip Hop - The musical style incorporating rhythmic or rhyming speech that became the movement’s most lasting and influential art form
• HIP HOP - A dance style, usually danced to hip-hop music, that evolved from the hip-hop culture
• word “hip-hop” - refers to a complex culture comprising four elements
• HIP HOP - widely considered a synonym for rap music
• Deejaying - “turntabling”
• Rapping - "MCing" or "rhyming"
• Graffiti Painting - "graf" or "writing"
• Graffiti & Breakdancing - aspects of the culture that first caught public attention, had the least lasting effect
• DJ Kool Herc (Clive Campbell) - 18-year-old immigrant who introduced the huge sound systems of his native Jamaica to inner-city parties
• DJ Kool Herc (Clive Campbell) - first mahor hip hop deejay
• Battle - freestyle where dancers ‘fight’ against each other on the dance floor without contact
• Battle - They form a circle and take turns trying to show each other up by using either a better style, more complex combinations, or harder moves.
• Liquid Dancing - form of gestural dance that someitimes involves pantomime
• Liquid Dancing - similar to popping or locking
• Word “liquid” - to describe the fluid-like motion of the dancers’ body and limbs
• Liquid Dancing - Primarily the dancers’ arms and hands which are the focus, though more advanced dancers work in a full range of body movements
• Boogaloo - a fluid style, that uses every part of the body and involves using angles and smooth movements to make everything flow together
• Boogaloo - Often uses rolling of the hips, kness, and the head and is often used as a transition
• Ragga - dance style originating from street dance by Afrojamaicans, Afrocarabians, which uses music which evolved from classical Reggae with a hiphop influence