1. Hip Hop Dance

2. Hip Hop
Refers to dance styles primarily danced to hip-hop music or that has evolved as a part of hip-hop culture. It is often improvisational in nature and dancers often engage in dance battles.

3. How did it get here?
Slaves transported from West African countries to North and South America brought with them oral and musical traditions
These traditions became an integral part of the use of music as a form of rebellion
Hip hop dance comes from the arrival of hip hop music

4. What movements are included?
Several elements of African dance appear in popular dance today
All over body movement
Earth-oriented movement
Improvisation
Pantomime

5. Hip Hop’s roots can be traced back to African American gospel, folk, blues, jazz and R&B music.
In time, these music styles made their way to the Caribbean during World War II while American soldiers were stationed in Jamaica.

6. Mid 1800’s- early 1900’s
Many African American dance styles eventually migrated to the Caucasian community
Cakewalk- competitive line dance
The Charleston- later led to swing dance
Black Bottom- precursor to tap, jazz, and swing
Next came the lindy hop, jitterbug, Savoy swing and eventually funk and disco
All of these styles have influenced modern hip hop dancing, including breaking, krumping, popping

7. DJs in Jamaica
Disc jockeys with large portable sound systems would set up temporary discos- competition for these traveling dance clubs was fierce
DJs would try to “one up” their rivals by “toasting” (chanting over a drum beat)

8. Clive Campbell
In 1967, 13 year old Clive moved from Jamaica to the West Bronx
His knowledge of mobile discos and toasting DJs from his birthplace combined with a powerful sound system helped him lay the foundation of the hip hop movement
Dancers would get “hype” during instrumental parts of a song (or a break in the music) and the dancers became known as “break dancers”
Clive became known as DJ Kool Herc

9. Breakdancing
Head spins, hand spins, back spins, the windmill, the worm, and the suicide (standing back flip landing on back)
This form of dance brought a lot of media attention to the hip hop movement

10. Other influences Afro-Caribbean dance Brazilian Martial arts
Kung Fu films

11. Today’s hip hop dance
May include Popping, Locking, House, Freestyle, Breaking, Boogaloo, The Wop, Soulja Boy, Kid N Play, Jerkin, Shuffling, Tutting, Robot, Dub Step, Bone Breaking

12. Vocabulary
Popping- contracting and releasing of muscles in your chest, arms, legs, and shoulders to create a jerking motion to the beat.
Krumping- a high energized, free movement of the arms, legs, chest, and feet.
Funk- an urban style of dancing. A cross between jazz and hip hop.
Breaking- One of the earliest styles of hip hop. Street dancing, consisting of four kinds of movement: toprock, downrock, power moves, and freezes.
Tutting- movement originating from Egyptian positions in hieroglyphs.
Body Roll- a dance move in which the entire body goes through a wave like motion.

13. Vocabulary- continued
Locking- dancer holds positions longer, like locking in place and move again after a quick pause.
Lyrical Hip hop- a fluid more interpretive version of hip hop done to slower music or R&B music.
In-beat- Chest contracts in.
Out-beat- Chest pops out.
Level 1- dancing on the floor.
Level 2- dancing in the middle level.
Level 3- dancing on the high level.
Crew- a group of street dancers who get together to create dance routines.