LESSON 6 Hiphop and Street Dance.pdf

Hip hop and Street Dance

1. HIP HOP/STREET
DANCE
LESSON 6

2. What is Hip Hop
dance?

3. Hip Hop
Hip-hop is a cultural movement best
known for its impact on music in the form
of the musical genre of the same name.
Also known as rap and formerly known as
disco rap, it is a genre of popular music .

4. Hip Hop
Hip-hop dance, on the other hand, refers
to street dance styles primarily
performed in hip-hop music or that have
evolved as part of hip-hop culture.

5. Origin of Hip Hop
Dance

6. Origin of Hip Hop
It has its origins in the Bronx, in New York
City, during the 1970s, mostly among
African Americans and some influence of
Latin Americans.

7. Origin of Hip Hop
Early hip-hop has often been credited
with helping to reduce inner city gang
violence by replacing physical violence
with dance and artwork battles.

8. Origin of Hip Hop
Hip hop culture became an outlet and a
way of dealing with the hardships of life
as minorities within America, and an
outlet to deal with violence and gang
culture.

9. Origin of Hip Hop
However, as Hip Hop has become more
popular, the meaning and messages have
changed to include negative things.

10. Origin of Hip Hop
Many who appreciate old-school hip-hop
are trying to challenge the new hip-hop.
They don’t want hip-hop to be used in a
bad way.

11. 4 Main Parts/Pillars
of Hip Hop Dance

12. 4 Main Parts/Pillars
A. Rapping
B. DJ-ing
C. Graffiti Art
D. B-boying

13. A. Rapping
Rapping (also rhyming, flowing, spitting,
emceeing, or MCing) is an artistic form
of vocal delivery that incorporates
"rhyme, rhythmic speech, and street
vernacular". It is usually performed
over a backing beat or musical
accompaniment.

15. B. DJ-ing
DJing is the act of playing existing
recorded music for a live audience. For
the history of radio disc jockeys, see
Radio disc jockey history.

17. C. Graffiti Art
Graffiti is the act of inscribing or drawing
on walls for the purpose of communicating
a message to the general public. Hip-hop
graffiti started with tags. In a time before
intricate wild style and other forms of
graffiti had emerged, the idea was just to
make a presence in the city.

19. D. B-boying
B-boying is an energetic form of dance,
fashioned and popularized by African
Americans and Latinos, that includes
stylized footwork and athletic moves such
as back spins or head spins.

21. Other Elements of
Hip Hop Dance

22. Other Elements
Beatboxing
Hip Hop
Fashion
Hip Hop
Slang

23. Beatboxing
Beatboxing is a musical style or technique,
especially in hip-hop, in which the sounds
and rhythms of percussion instruments or
a drum machine are simulated by using
the mouth and voice.

25. Hip Hop Slang
Hip Hop slang is a common word play that
includes making a word its own antonym,
such as "bad" meaning good.

27. Hip Hop Fashion
Hip Hop fashions - they typically wore
bomber jackets, tracksuits, and sneakers
with oversized laces. Baggy oversized
clothing was worn, largely due to inner-
city hand-me-downs.

28. Hip Hop Fashion
Sportswear/ Hats
Tracksuits
Sneakers
Bright Colors
New Haircuts
Sunglasses
Jewelry (Bling)

31. Hip Hop Music

32. Hip Hop Music
Hip-hop music incorporates a number of
iconic elements, most notably DJing and
rapping, along with things like beatboxing,
sampling and juggling beats on
turntables.

33. Hip Hop Music
Hip hop gave young people of minority
groups a voice to let their issues be
noticed.

36. Street Dance

37. Street Dance
Street dance refers to dance styles that
have evolved outside of dance studios.
It is performed in streets, dance parties,
parks, school yards, or in any available
space.

38. Street Dance
It is often improvisational and social in
nature, encouraging interaction and
contact with spectators and other
dancers.

39. Street Dance
A full street dance is a collection of
various similar dance moves and styles
collected into one practice and regarded
as the same dance.

40. Street and Hip Hop
Dance Styles

41. B-Boying

42. B- Boying
B-boying or breaking, also called
breakdancing, is a style of street dance
and the first hip-hop dance style that
originated among Black and Puerto Rican
youths.

43. B- Boying
An athletic style of street dance.
B-Boys mean “break boys”
A practitioner of this dance is called a b-
boy, b-girl, or breaker.
B-boying and breaking are the original
terms.

44. 4 Movements in
B-Boying

45. 4 Movements in B-Boying
Top Rock
Down Rock
Freezes
Power Moves

46. Top Rock
TOPROCK- footwork-oriented steps
performed while standing up

47. Top Rock

48. Down Rock
DOWNROCK - footwork performed with
bothhands and feet on the floor

49. Down Rock

50. Freezes
FREEZES- stylish poses done on your
hands

51. Freezes

52. Power Moves
POWER MOVES - comprise full-body spins
and rotations that give the illusion of
defying gravity

53. Power Moves

54. Popping

55. Popping
Popping was popularized by Samuel
Boogaloo Sam Solomon and his crew the
Electric Boogaloos.

56. Popping
It is based on the technique of quickly
contracting and relaxing muscles to cause
a jerk in a dancer’s body.

57. Popping
Popping forces parts of your body
outwards, similar to an explosion within
parts of your body. Popping also
contracts muscles, but it is followed by
relaxation that gives it the jerking
appearance of popping.

58. Popping

59. Locking

60. Locking
Locking or campbellocking, was created by
Don Campbellock Campbell in 1969
inLosAngeles, California.

61. Locking
Popularized by 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.

62. Locking
In locking, dancers hold their positions
longer.

63. Locking

64. Krumping

65. Krumping
“Kingdom Radically Uplifted Mighty
Praise”.
Created by “Tight Eyez” and “Big Mijo”
during the early 2000s.
Originated in the African-American
community of South Central Los Angeles,
California.

66. Krumping
a relatively new form of the “Urban”
Black dance movement.
free, expressive, and highly energetic.
Most people paint their faces in different
designs.
Krumping is a dance style that releases
anger.

67. Krumping
It is reported that gang riots in the
United States were minimized because of
krumping style.

68. Krumping

69. Tutting

70. Tutting
It is a creative way of making geometric
shapes forming right angles using your
body parts.
The style was originally practiced by
young funk dancers.

71. Tutting
It is derived from the positions people
were drawn to during the days of the
Ancient Egyptians.
It is the positions seen in these portraits
that have been adopted by dancers today.

72. Tutting
Tutting is still a greatly respected move
and King Tut a.k.a. Mark Benson is widely
acclaimed for pioneering the style.

73. Tutting

74. Shuffling

75. 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.

76. Shuffling
The basic movements in the dance are a
fast heel-and-toe action with a style
suitable for various types of electronic
music.

77. Shuffling
People who dance the shuffle are often
referred to as rockers, due in part to the
popularity of shuffling to rock music in
the early 1990s.

78. Shuffling

79. WAACKING

80. WAACKING
Waacking is an African American form of
street dance originating from the 1970s
disco era of the underground club scenes
in Los Angeles and New York City.

81. WAACKING
Waacking consists of stylized posing and
fast synchronized arm movements to the
beat of the music.

82. WAACKING
Today, waacking is a popular element of
hip hop dance.

83. WAACKING

84. Thanks!