HIP HOP Dance The History of Hip-Hop dances encompasses the people and events since the late 1960s that have contributed to the development of early hip-hop dance styles, such as uprock, breaking, locking, robotic, boogaloo, and popping . African Americans and Latino Americans created uprock and breaking in New York City. African Americans in California created locking, robotic, boogaloo, and popping—collectively referred to as the funk styles. All of these dance styles are different stylistically. More than 50 years old, hip-hop dance became widely known after the first professional street-based dance crews formed in the 1970s in the United States. The most influential groups were Rock Steady Crew , The Lockers , and The Electric Boogaloos who are responsible for the spread of breaking, locking, and popping respectively . The Brooklyn-based dance style uprock influenced breaking early in its development. Boogaloo gained more exposure because it is the namesake of the E
HIP HOP Dance
The History of Hip-Hop dances encompasses the people and events since the late 1960s that have contributed to the development of early hip-hop dance styles, such as uprock, breaking, locking, robotic, boogaloo, and popping. African Americans and Latino Americans created uprock and breaking in New York City. African Americans in California created locking, robotic, boogaloo, and popping—collectively referred to as the funk styles. All of these dance styles are different stylistically.
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More than 50 years old, hip-hop dance became widely known after the first professional street-based dance crews formed in the 1970s in the United States. The most influential groups were Rock Steady Crew, The Lockers, and The Electric Boogaloos who are responsible for the spread of breaking, locking, and popping respectively. The Brooklyn-based dance style uprock influenced breaking early in its development. Boogaloo gained more exposure because it is the namesake of the Electric Boogaloos crew. Uprock, robotic, and boogaloo are respected dance styles but none of them are as mainstream or popular as breaking, locking, and popping.
Dances from the 1990s such as The Running Man, the Worm, and the Cabbage Patch entered the mainstream and became fad dances. After the millennium, newer social dances such as the Cha-Cha Slide and the Dougie also caught on and became very popular
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The commercialization of hip-hop dance continued into the 1990s and 2000s with the production of several television shows and movies such as The Grind, Rize, StreetDance 3D, America's Best Dance Crew, Saigon Electric, the Step Up film series, and The LXD, a web series. What distinguishes hip-hop from other forms of dance is that it is often "freestyle" (improvisational) in nature and hip-hop dance crews often engage in freestyle dance competitions—colloquially referred to as "battles". Crews, freestyling, and battles are identifiers of this style. Hip-hop dance can be a form of entertainment or a hobby. It can also be a way to stay active in competitive dance and a way to make a living by dancing professionally.
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