![]() ![]() Moving and stopping your body quickly in steady increments using dime stops to make it look like you’re moving within a strobe light. I like to think of it like waves of the ocean. It’s a style that involves full body waves as if you’re slithering around with your body like a snake. Snaking Or Wavingįluid rolls of the chest and body. Moving and hitting with pictures that imitate a puppet or scarecrow with strings attached to your joints. Inspired by classic mimes, miming is when you utilize isolations to create pictures and illusions of an object or scenery that isn’t actually there. When you keep the rest of your body still while you separate and move a part of it. The effect comes from being able stop suddenly and seemingly out of nowhere, or “stopping on a dime”. Moving at a steady pace, then coming to a clean halt without any shaking or reverb. This is when the dancer imitates a robot using several different popping dance techniques like hitting and gliding. It incorporates isolated circular rolls of body parts. The Boogaloo was invented by Boogaloo Sam, is a loose, fluid motion that gives the impression of the body having no bones. The technique involves abrupt tensing of the muscles to create a stop-motion illusion. It is meant to simulate an animated character moving frame-by-frame. Enjoy.Īnimation was inspired by the Dynamation films by Ray Harryhausen. Here is a great video tutorial on some sliding techniques done by Poppin John. In 1983, he performed the Backslide on national television (but incorrectly called it the “Moonwalk”). Notably, Michael Jackson had learned to dance from Pop’in Pete and Pop N’ Taco. The backslide (which people commonly confuse as the Moonwalk), is a move that incorporates this technique. The first time I noticed this was with Pop Icon Michael Jackson. These are variations of footwork techniques that create the illusion that your feet are moving smoothly across the floor. Here is a great explanation from Poppin John. You can hit continuously to a steady rhythm, combined with different poses and pathways. Hitting or Poppingįlexing your muscle groups suddenly. ![]() Here is a list of some of the movements that make popping well pop. ![]() With a better understanding of these origins, all dancers can learn to innovate their own Popping style while staying true to the integrity of the culture. Poppers aim to maintain the authenticity of the techniques and traditions of the dance style. These Popping foundations have been viewed, learned, and modified by generations of dancers all over the world. It is often performed in battles and cyphers, or incorporated into choreography. Popping dance is related to hip hop dancing and the other street/funk dance styles (such as Waacking and Locking), but is its own distinct style of dance. What Are The Signature Steps in Popping Dance Popping and other street styles then started to be featured in Hollywood films, such as Beat Street, and Breakin’. The Electric Boogaloos’ performances served as a catalyst for developing different styles of Popping dance in other parts of the country. Soul Train helped to popularize and publicize Popping in hip hop dance. Over time, the word “Popping” or “hitting” started being used to describe the collection of moves and techniques invented by the early ‘Poppers.’ In addition to being a great hobby, Popping dance gave dancers an escape, an identity, and a family. The dancers would invent and practice moves and then show them off at clubs or in dance battles. It is mostly thought to have started amongst teenagers in deindustrializing parts of cities. ![]() So I have gathered that different forms of popping happened in different regions and different circles of influence. Sometimes the styles are so similar that they could be bordering on another type of style. It is quite difficult to research the history of any of the hip hop styles, as there are so many different accounts and so many conflicts. The movements are small rather than big and the effect is rather robotic if done corectly. Think of it more as a nerve impulse as the muscles pop. One has to be careful not to overexagerate the popping style. Popping is characterized by sudden tensing and releasing of the muscles (“hitting”) to the beats in music. Popping in hip hop is a style of dancing that started in the late 1960’s and 70’s. Popping is my favourite style of hip hop and I also like it because there is not too much jumping, so even old people like me can learn to do it. In this post let’s explore what is popping in hip hop. ![]()
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