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hip hop dance

For more details on the history, social dancing, and worldwide exposure, see History of hip-hop dance.

Hip-hop dance
A b-boy performing in a cipher in Turkey.
Main Styles
Breaking – Locking – Popping Uprock – Roboting – Boogaloo – Tutting – Gliding – Waving – Liquid – Strobing – Animation
Derivative Styles
Street	Turfing – Jerkin' – Krumping – Memphis Jookin'
Studio	New Style – Jazz-Funk – Lyrical hip-hop
Cultural Origins
African Americans – Latino Americans – Turntables – James Brown – South Bronx – Fresno – Los Angeles – United States – Hip-hop culture – Funk – Hip-hop music – Social dancing

Hip-hop dance refers to dance styles primarily performed to hip hop music or that have evolved as part of hip-hop culture. It includes a wide range of styles notably breaking, locking, and popping which were created in the 1970s by African Americans^{[note 1]} and made popular by dance crews in the United States. The television show Soul Train and the 1980s films Breakin', Beat Street, and Wild Style showcased these crews and dance styles in their early stages; therefore, giving hip-hop mainstream exposure. The dance industry responded with a studio based version of hip-hop—sometimes called new style—and jazz-funk. Classically trained dancers developed these studio styles in order to create choreography from the hip-hop dances that were being performed on the street. Because of this development, hip-hop dance is practiced in both dance studios and outdoor spaces. The commercialization of hip-hop dance continued into the 1990s and 2000s with the production of several other television shows and movies such as The Grind, Dance 360, Planet B-Boy, Rize, America's Best Dance Crew, the Step Up film franchise, and The LXD, a web series. Though the dance is established in entertainment, it still maintains a strong presence in urban neighborhoods which has led to the creation of street dance derivatives turfing, krumping, and jerkin'.
Hip-hop dance has a particularly strong influence in France, South Korea, and the United Kingdom. France is the home of Juste Debout, an international hip-hop dance competition, and Battle of the Year, the largest team-based breaking competition in the world. South Korea is home to the international breaking competition R16 which is sponsored by the government and broadcast every year live on Korean television. Like France, the UK also hosts two international competitions: The UK B-Boy Championships and the World Street Dance Championships.
What distinguishes hip-hop dance 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 lifestyle: a way to be active in physical fitness or competitive dance and a way to make a living by dancing professionally.

History

Main article: History of hip-hop dance

Hip-hop dance is a broad category that includes a variety of urban dance styles. The older dance styles that were created in the 1970s include uprock, breaking, and the funk styles.^[5] Breaking was created in The Bronx, New York. In its earliest form, it began as elaborations on James Brown's "Good Foot" dance^[5][6] which came out in 1972. Breaking at this period was not primarily floor oriented as seen today; it started out as toprock which dancers perform while standing up. An influence on toprock was uprock^[7] which was created in Brooklyn, New York.^[8][9] It looks similar to toprock, but it is more aggressive and looks like a fight. Uprock is done with partners, but in toprock, and in breaking in general, each person takes turns dancing.^[10] In 1973 DJ Kool Herc invented the break beat.^[11][12] A break beat is a rhythmic, musical interlude of a song that has been looped over and over again to extend that instrumental solo. Kool Herc did this to provide a means for dancers who attended his parties to demonstrate their skills.^[12] B-boy and b-girl stands for "break-boy" and "break-girl"; b-boys and b-girls dance to the break of a record.^[12] Further influenced by martial arts^[13] and gymnastics, breaking went from being a purely upright dance style—toprock only—to becoming more floor oriented.
At the same time breaking was developing in New York, other styles were being created in California. The funk styles refers to several street dance styles created in California in the 1970s that were danced to funk music.^[14] These styles include roboting, bopping, hitting, locking, bustin', popping, electric boogaloo, strutting, sac-ing, dime-stopping, etc.^[15] The most popular and widely practiced of the funk styles are locking and popping. Locking is older than popping; it was created by Don Campbell in the late 1960s.^[1] Sam Solomon created popping in the 1970s.^[1] The television show, Soul Train, helped to spread locking and popping's popularity. Both The Lockers and the Electric Boogaloos—dance crews responsible for the spread of locking and popping—performed on this show.^[14]
It would be historically inaccurate to say that the funk styles have always been considered hip-hop. The funk styles were adopted into hip-hop in large part due to the media. 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 of these styles.^[16] Due to the amount of attention locking and popping were receiving, the media brought these styles under the "breakdance" label causing confusion about their origin.^[17][18] They were created on the west coast independent from breaking and came out of the funk cultural movement rather than from the hip-hop cultural movement.
As breaking, locking, and popping were emerging in the 1970s, hip-hop social dancing was growing as well. Novelty and fad dances such as the Roger Rabbit, the Cabbage Patch, and the Worm appeared in the 1980s followed by the Running Man and the Humpty dance in the 1990s.^[19] More recent social dances include the Cha Cha Slide, the Soulja Boy, and the Dougie. The previously mentioned dances are a sample of the many that have appeared since hip-hop developed into a distinct dance style. Like hip-hop music, hip-hop social dancing has continued to change as new songs are released and new dances are created to accompany them.