What Is Hip Hop Dance?
Hip Hop dance borrows from a wide range of dance styles and involves many techniques including breaking, popping, locking, krumping, and even house dance. Hip Hop dance originated in the 1970s on the streets of New York. The culture that came to be known as “Hip Hop” was forming and dancers–along with DJs–created a style of dance that incorporated not only movements, but also a certain style of clothing and terminology. Soulful self-expression is one of the main characteristics of Hip Hop dance. With movements that go to the beat and rhythm of the music, steps are combined a way that’s informal and can have a variety of emotional effects. Hip Hop routines run the gamut from smooth and sexy to explosive and powerful. The informality of Hip Hop dance separates it from ballroom dance forms. While ballroom dance forms are very structured and have names for every movement, Hip Hop dance involves a lot of freedom to create new moves and combine moves in new ways. Hip Hop dance is changing
