Hip hop styles

• Recreation


  Therapeutic refreshment or relaxation of one's body and mind. Activities done for this purpose are called recreational activities. Its main objective is to revitalize the physical, mental, social, and emotional aspects of a person.
• Street dance


  Dance styles that have evolved outside of dance studios. It is performed in streets, dance parties, parks, school yards, or in any available space. It is often improvisational and social in nature, encouraging interaction and contact with spectators and other dancers.
• Hip-hop dance


  A cultural movement best known for its impact on music in the form of the musical genre of the same name. It has its origins in the Bronx, in New York City, during the 1970s, mostly among African Americans and some influence of Latin Americans. Hip-hop culture is composed of the pillars such as DJ-ing, rapping breakdancing, and graffiti art.
• Street and hip-hop dance styles

  • B-boying
  • Popping
  • Locking
  • Krumping
  • Tutting
  • Shuffling
  • Waacking
• 1. boying/Breakdancing


  A style of street dance and the first hip-hop dance style that originated among Black and Puerto Rican youths in New York City during the early 1970s. A practitioner of this dance is called a b-boy, b-girl, or breaker.
• Popping


  Popularized by Samuel Boogaloo Sam Solomon and his crew the Electric Boogaloos. It is based on the technique of quickly contracting and relaxing muscles to cause a jerk in a dancer's body.
• Locking

  Created by Don Campbellock Campbell in 1969 in Los Angeles, California. It was popularized by his crew, The Lockers. Locking can be identified by its distinctive stops. 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


  A form of dancing that originated in African-American community of South Central Los Angeles, California and is a relatively new form of the "Urban" black dance movement. It is free, expressive and highly energetic. Most people paint their faces in different designs. Krumping is a dance style to release anger.
• Tutting


  A creative way of making geometric shapes forming right angle using your body parts. The style was originally practiced by young funk dancers. It is derived from the positions people were drawn in during the days of the Ancient Egyptians. It is the positions seen in these portraits that have been adopted by dancers today.
• Shuffling


  The Melbourne Shuffle (also known as Rocking or simply The Shuffle) is a rave and club dance that originated in the late 1980s in the underground rave music scene in Melbourne, Australia. The basic movements of the dance are a fast heel-and- toe action with a style suitable for various types of electronic music. Some variants Incorporate arm movements.
• Waacking


  An African American form of street dance originating from the 1970's disco era of the underground club scenes in Los Angeles and New York City. Waacking consists of stylized posing and fast synchronized arm movements to the beat of the music. Today, waacking is a popular element of hip hop dance.