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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. African Americans in California created locking, roboting ...
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 ...
Dougie. The Dougie ( / ˈdʌɡi / ⓘ DUG-ee) is a hip hop dance generally performed by moving one's body from side to side and passing a hand through or near the hair on one's own head. [ 1] The dance originated in Dallas, Texas, [ 2][ 3] where it took its name from similar moves performed by 1980s rapper Doug E. Fresh. [ 1][ 4][ 5] The Dougie ...
The World Hip Hop Dance Championship is an international hip-hop dance competition created in 2002 by Hip Hop ... (1.0) or the full 10%. A crew “identifiably ...
Richard Colón (born January 1, 1966), better known by his stage name Crazy Legs, is an American b-boy who was featured in the earliest stories on hip hop dancing to appear in mainstream press, and as president of the Rock Steady Crew brought the form to London and Paris in 1983. Today he is also involved in community outreach, dance ...
For most of the 1980s, New York City, the birthplace of hip hop, [14] remained the rap genre's dominant scene. [15] Los Angeles County was secondary. [16] Until 1988, the Los Angeles hip hop scene, retaining more of hip hop's dance and party origin, prioritized DJs and DJ crews as the central players in hip hop; [17] the prevailing style at the time was electro rap and "funk hop", [18] similar ...
Hip hop or hip-hop is a culture and art movement that was created by African Americans, [1] [2] starting in the Bronx, New York City. [a] Pioneered from Black American street culture, [4] [5] that had been around for years prior to its more mainstream discovery, [6] it later reached other groups such as Latino Americans and Caribbean Americans.
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]