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is a street dance and one of the original funk styles that came from Fresno, California during the late 1960s–1970s.
The dance is based on the technique
of quickly contracting and relaxing muscles to cause a “jerk” in the dancer’s body, referred to
as a “pop” or a hit.
Popping
A street dancer doing the backslide or “moonwalk”, a common move in the floating
style often seen combined with popping.
Variations
A style and a technique where you imitate film characters being animated
by stop motion.
Animation
A style that imitates animatronic robots . Related to the robot style, but adds
a hit or bounce at the end of each movement.
Animatronics
is a loose and fluid dance style trying to give the impression of a body lacking bones, partly inspired by animated movies
and cartoons
Boogaloo
A style of popping in which the “chest” is isolated by being pushed out and brought back while flexing the “chest muscles”
Bopping
A leg-oriented style focusing on fast moving legs, knee rolls and twisting feet.
Crazy legs
A technique of moving at a steady pace and then abruptly coming to a halt, as if attempting to stop on a dime or freeze in a moment of time.
Dime stopping
set of footwork-oriented techniques that attempt to create the illusion that the dancer’s body is floating smoothly across the floor, or that the legs are walking while the dancer travels in unexpected directions. This style encompasses moves such as the backslide, aka the moonwalk, which was made famous by Michael Jackson.
Gliding (also called Floating or Sliding)
A ground move where the dancer imitates a lowrider car.
Lowrider
Performing techniques of traditional miming to the beat of a song. Most commonly practiced are various movements with the hands as if one could
hold on to air and pull their body in any possibly direction.
Miming
A style imitating a puppet or marionette tied to strings.
Puppet
A style imitating a robot or mannequin.
Robot/botting
A style imitating the scarecrow character of The Wizard of Oz. This style is
supposedly pioneered by Boogaloo Sam in 1977.
Scarecrow
A style of popping that gives the impression that the dancer is moving within
a strobe light
Strobing
Distinctions of this style include the execution of angular arm, leg, and
body movements while stepping to the beat in any direction.
Strutting
A way of popping where the dancer pops at smaller intervals, generally twice
as fast as normal
Ticking
Based on action figures such as G.I. Joe and Major Matt Mason, developed by
an old member of the Electric Boogaloos called Toyman Skeet. Goes between
straight arms and right angles to simulate limited joint movement
Toyman
Inspired by the art of Ancient Egypt (the name derived from the Egyptian
pharaoh Tutankhamun, colloquially known as “King Tut”), tutting exploits
the body’s ability to create geometric positions (such as boxes) and
movements, predominantly with the use of right angles.
Tutting/King Tut
is composed of a series of fluid movements that give the appearance
that a wave is traveling through the dancer’s body.
Waving
A dance technique that consists of separating, or isolating the movement of
one or more body parts from the rest of the body
Isolation
is a style of funk dance, which is today also associated with hip hop. The name is
based on the concept of locking movements, which basically means freezing from a fast
movement and “locking” in a certain position, holding that position for a short while and
then continuing in the same speed as before
Locking
