Other Dance Forms

• Hip-Hop dance is of African-Latino origin that involves polyrhythmic and polycentric movements.
• Graffiti is the visual form of hip-hop.

  It is the artistic visualization of hip-hop culture that can get the attention of the public. It is usually done on public walls.
• MCing is the role of the master of ceremonies (MC). The one that uses rapping to inform their audience of their ideas.
• DJing came from the term "DJ" which is the short name for disk jockey. It is the mixing of different music to reinvent a new piece of melody.
• B-boying is the actual dance part of Hip-Hop.
• Knowledge is about the familiarity of the artists with each other.
• Popping was pioneered by Electric Boogaloos, and originated in California, USA.
• Dance crew Lockers spearheaded by Dan Campbell popularized Locking. It is a dance style generating pop and lock in sequence.
• The mother of all hip-hop dance styles is the breakdance, originated in South Bronx, New York.
• Toprock is the dancing while on one's feet.
• Downrock is dancing on the floor which can involve the upper body directly touching the floor.
• Power-moves is an acrobatic spinning, through the hands or head on the floor.
• Freeze moves are the dance poses.
• Top Rocking was also known as upright, some of the earliest dancing style by b-boy pioneers.
• Footwork and Freezeswas also known as floor rocking characterized by the fancy leg movements done on the ground, supported by the arms.
• New School Hip-Hop developed when hip-hop music evolved.
• Bouncestarted in the 1980s as a mix of new Orleans hip-hop music and the traditions of the Mardi Gras Indian chants.
• Electric Boogaloo inscribed with funk style popularized by dance group Electric Boogaloo in the 1970s.
• Street Jazz eminently improvisational and freeform, Jazz dance quickly morphed into a performance that emulated elements of ballet.
• Jookin also known as gangsta-walling that originated quite recently in the 1990s.
• Contemporary dance describes the range of choreographic styles and techniques in modern times of dancing.
• Isadora Duncan was referred to as the "Mother of Modern Dance".
• Martha Graham (1894-1991) was the great contemporary dancer that introduced the contemporary dance in the world. She conceptualized that fluency of movement comes from the body's natural lines and energy.
• Merce Cunningham continued and refined the work that his colleague Martha Graham formed.
• Lester Horton was one of the most influential contemporary dance idealists as he trained a lot of famous dancers.
• The primary creative tools of contemporary dance are the body, time, and space.
• Ballet is an artistic dance form performed to music using precise and highly formalized steps and gestures.