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Popping is a street dance adapted out of the earlier boogaloo cultural movement in Oakland, California.As boogaloo spread, it would be referred to as "robottin'" in Richmond, California; strutting movements in San Francisco and San Jose; and the Strikin' dances of the Oak Park community in Sacramento, which were popular through the mid-1960s to the 1970s.
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Cross-body lead is a common and useful move in Latin dances such as salsa, mambo, rumba and cha-cha-cha. Basically, the leader, on counts 2 and 3 of their basic step (assuming dancing on 1), does a quarter-left turn (90° counter-clockwise) while still holding on to the follower.
Liquid dancing has many moves in common with popping and waving. ("Waving" is a style of dance where the dancer tries to make it appear that waves are rolling through their body.) [ 1 ] The exact origins of the dances are uncertain, although they came out of either popping, raves , or both sometime from the 1970s to 1990s. [ 2 ]
The moonwalk. The moonwalk, or backslide, is a popping dance move in which the performer glides backwards but their body actions suggest forward motion. [1] It became popular around the world when Michael Jackson performed the move during the performance of "Billie Jean" on Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever, which was broadcast in 1983.
[14] [46] Gliding is a lower body dance performed with little to no movements in the chest or arms. In gliding a dancer appears as if they are drifting across the floor on ice. [note 3] Opposite from gliding is tutting, an upper body dance that uses the arms, hands, and wrists to form right angles and create geometric box-like shapes. Tutting ...
Slutdrop is a dance move.The move involves squatting as quickly and as low as possible and immediately popping back up. [1] A hand is often put straight up to steady oneself, [2] and the move is often performed whilst grinding a dance partner that the dropper is trying to impress. [3]