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Hip hop dance is a range of street dance styles primarily performed to hip hop music or that have evolved as part of hip hop culture. It is influenced by a wide range of styles that were created in the 1970s and made popular by dance crews in the United States. The television show Soul Train and the 1980s films Breakin', Beat Street, and Wild ...
A hip-hop dancer at Zona club in Moscow. 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, roboting, boogaloo, and popping. African Americans created uprock and breaking in New York City.
The video featured children performing the dance. [18] [16] [19] The dance became popular in hip-hop music videos of the era especially with artists from Harlem. Most notably it was a key feature in music videos for Jadakiss' "Put Your Hands Up and G.Dep's "Special Delivery", both released in 2001. [20]
1. Whip/Nae Nae. What started off as an innocent enough dance move snowballed out of control into an avalanche that swept us all along with it's powerful undertow. And NO ONE could resist it. Not ...
According to dance researcher Harri Heinilä, “It has been clear that the 'Breakdance' and other Hip Hop-related dances at the very least resemble or even were inherited from earlier African American dances, which have been collectively called jazz dance since this term appeared by 1917 and was established by the end of the 1920s."
A krumper dancing in Australia. Krumping is a global culture that evolved through African-American street dancing popularized in the United States during the early 2000s, characterized by free, expressive, exaggerated, and highly energetic movement. [ 1] The people who originated krumping saw the dance as a means for them to escape gang life.
Litefeet. Litefeet, also referred to as "getting lite," is a type of street dance / vernacular dance that emerged from Harlem, New York in the early 2000s (was established in 2006) . [ 1] The term comes from dancers dancing as though they have "light feet," or are weightless. [ 2]
Melbourne shuffle. The Melbourne shuffle is a rave dance that developed in the 1980s. [ 1] Typically performed to electronic music, the dance originated in the Melbourne rave scene and was popular in the late 1980s and 1990s. [ 2] The dance moves involve a fast heel-and-toe movement or T-step, combined with a variation of the running man ...