popping dance styles

• Boogaloo

  • First form of popping
• Boogaloo

  • Looser and shows smooth fluid motion
• Boogaloo

  Incorporates isolated circular rolls of body parts (like your head, shoulders, hips and knees as if you are moving without bones)
• Waving 

  • Shows the smooth fluid motion of your body parts, especially your arms (literally imitating the waves in the ocean)
• Strutting

  • Shows popping or hitting angles from your limbs. 
• Strutting

  • Involves the walkout as well as the twist and flex movements
• Locking

  • Should be coordinated with the music where the movements are mostly large and exaggerated
• Floating, Gliding, and Sliding

  • Footwork techniques that create illusions of your body floating smoothly on the floor
• Floating, Gliding, and Sliding

  Example of this is moonwalking
• Isolation

  • Keeping the rest of the body still while separating and moving a specific body part quickly or slowly
• Isolation

  • Some of these movements are head, chest, and hip isolations
• Scarecrow

  • This movement makes you look like you are imitating a puppet or scarecrow with strings attached to your joints
• Strobing

  • A style of popping that makes your body move and stop quickly to make it look like you are moving with strobe light
• Robot/Botting

  • It is like imitating the movement of a robot or mannequin by executing different popping techniques
• Tutting

  • Involves creating geometric shapes with right angles using your arms or hands