HIPHOP/
Street Dance
Objectives:
At the end of the lesson, the students should be able to:
• Explain the nature of Hip-hop Dance;
• Perform the basic steps of Hip-hop Dance with correct form of grace;
• Execute Hip-hop dance moves with proficiency;
• Develop more grace and coordination through Hip-hop dancing
HIP-HOP
• Hip-hop refers to street dance, a dance that
is primarily performed in the streets.
• It was said to be the first performed in the
1960s and early 1970s in African-American
communities.
• During that time, individuals without
professional dance training but with natural
instinct for movement brought dancing to
the streets.
• The Hip-hop moves were inspired by
complex rhythms and the down-to-earth
movement style of African dancing.
HISTORY OF HIP-HOP
• In its earliest form, it began
elaborations on James Brown’s
“Good Foot” dance which came
out in 1972.
• An influence in top rock was up
rock which was created in
Brooklyn, New York.
HISTORY OF HIP-HOP
• Once hip-hop activist and DJ,
Afrika Bambaataa, used the
word “hip-hop” in a magazine
interview in 1982, “hip-hop
dance” became an umbrella
term encompassing all styles.
• As breaking, locking, and
popping gained its popularity n
1980’s, hip-hop social dancing
was starting to develop.
THREE UNIQUE ASPECTS OF HIP-HOP DANCE
• FREESTYLE MOVEMENT
- When Hip-hop dancers participate
in freestyle routines they do not
adhere to any choreographic
sequence of steps, but rather
improvise their own moves on the
spot.
- They are basically no rules for
freestyle dance;
- Hip-hop dancers commonly use the
beat, rhythm, melody, lyrics, and
other aspects of a song or piece to
help them determine their moves.
THREE UNIQUE ASPECTS OF HIP-HOP DANCE
• BATTLES
- Hip-hop battles may be between
individual dancers or crews.
- They originate from informal dance
contests that took place in the
streets and popular night time
establishments.
- With battles, dancers perform
routines, both freestyle and
choreographed, alternately and
either a panel of judges or the
crowd determines the winner in
the end.
THREE UNIQUE ASPECTS OF HIP-HOP DANCE
• CIPHER
- Hip-hop dancers form a circle.
- One dancer enters to perform
a sequence of choreographed
or freestyle moves while the
remaining dancers in the circle
yell
out
jeers
or
encouragements
for
the
person performing.
- When the first dancer goes
back to the circle, another one
comes in and so forth
THREE UNIQUE ASPECTS OF HIP-HOP DANCE
• BREAKDANCE
- The most famous hip-hop dance.
- This dance includes four
foundational dances; Top rock,
which involves footwork-oriented
steps performed while standing
up; Down rock, which involves
footwork performed with both
hands and feet on the floor;
Freezes, which involve stylish
poses done on your hands; and
Power moves, which involves
complex and impressive acrobatic
moves.
THREE UNIQUE ASPECTS OF HIP-HOP DANCE
• LOCKING
- Originally called
Campbell locking, this
Hip-hop step was created
by Don “Campbellock”
Campbell and was
popularized by his crew,
The Lockers.
- Locking is characterized
by sudden pauses or
freezes.
OTHER TYPES AND FORMS OF HIP-HOP
•Krumping
•Harlem Shake
•Jerkin
•Liquid and digits
•Robot/Mannequin
KRUMPING
- gaining popularity in Hip-hop and
electronica circles because of the
energy and freedom it encourages.
- It has four basic moves; jabs, arm
swings, chest pops, and stomps, or,
if you look at it in a simpler way,
basically anything you wanted to
do with your body.
- It is very improvisational and
expressive, at times event violent
so, thus gaining popularity among
younger performers.
HARLEM SHAKE
- gained popularity because of a
viral Youtube video.
- It has no strict code of dance
moves.
- As it only involves creative
convulsions of the body, it is no
wonder that Harlem Shake is
popular even to those who are
not adept at dancing
JERKIN
- Is a fairly recent Hip-hop dance
trend.
- It involves twitchy dance moves
called
‘jerks’
where
the
performer executes a set of in
and out leg stretches.
- It is more of a sub-culture trend,
if taken together with its dress
code of neo-coloured skinny
jeans and Chuck Tylors.
- And yes, it looks much like the
Dougie.
LIQUID AND DIGITS
- It is often involves smooth,
liquid-ish hand movements
called hand flows, and digital
manipulation, creating illusions
and movements with the fingers.
- The performer’s body is used as
a contour to express a feeling or
a series of interpretative
gestures.
- It often involved in telling story
and
creating
a
visual
representation of the music.
ROBOT/MANNEQUIN
- Robotting is a pretty much
similar to popping, but still many
dancers use robot dance moves
as their primary style.
- Robot dance is simply acting like
a robot, (not necessarily in jive
with the beat) and doing stiff
arm and head movements that
often contrast with the smooth.