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HIPHOP
- Late 1960’s and early 1970’s
- Inspired by movements of African
STEPS IN KRUMPING:
dancing
- It incorporates aspects of modern - Work on your balance. A huge part of
dance, tap and swing. krump is having an unwavering sense of
- Hip means Trendy while the balance, regardless of the strange
leaping movement is Hop. positions you put your body in.
- Work on your Isolations. Start with
KRUMPING your neck and work your way
downward. Rotate each part of your
- Derived from Clowning body in circles, taking turns going both
- It then evolved into a popular Street clockwise and counterclockwise.
Dance. - Begin with the stance. You're in a
- Isolating body parts, Swinging, slight squat, bending at the knees --
Stomping, and Popping are the key kinda like you're playing D in
basketball.
components of Krumping.
- Learn the Stomps.
- Intense, Fast-Paced and Sharp. - Perfect the chest pop. You simply pop
your chest forward quickly and bring it
MAIN MOVES IN back -- it's sort of like a pulse.
KRUMPING: - Add in arm swings. They're aggressive
yet under control. They can be to any
Arm Swings – quick and punchy direction, just make sure they're quick
style. and punctuated and not flailing all over
Chest Pop – isolating the head, legs the place.
and arms. - Travel. Travel across the floor. This is
most often done in a slide or glide.
Stomps – involves leg movements - Add in tricks, syncs, puzzles, and the
that end with a Stomp. final kill-off.
- Hit and then slow down.
Lift Stomp – Lift your leg before you
bring it down to stomp. Knee should Syncs – combination of moves, often
stay bent at 90º angle. done at once or in close sequence.
Kick Stomp – Leg straight, kick it out, Puzzles – movements done with
and bring it back down to stomp. your hands and arms.
Kill-off – Demonstrating how you
would literally kill someone but, it’s
a dance-y and beautiful and thus not - Point your right foot back down as you
clearly violent. shuffle your left foot outward.
- Take at last five steps to the right.
- Move to the left.
- Continue shuffling sideways.
TUTTING
- Involves making shapes and angles
(usually 90-degree angles) with the RUNNING MAN
body, limbs, hands, fingers, etc. - Stand with your left foot about a foot (.3
- Inspired from Egyptian hieroglyphs meters) in front of your right.
and depictions of King Tut the - Lift your right foot.
Pharaoh. - Drag your left foot back.
- Emerged mid-1970s to early 1980s - Plant your right foot.
- Mark Benson aka King Boogaloo Tut - Lift your left foot.
pioneered Tutting. - Drag your right foot back.
- Plant your left foot.
STEPS IN TUTTING: - Continue alternating feet.
- Sweep your hands up and hold them in PUT IT ALL TOGETHER
front of your chest, palms together and
fingers pointing up. - Transition from the "T-Step" to "The
- Slide your right hand up. Running Man."
- Curve your right hand down. - Transition from "The Running Man" to
- Slide your right hand across your left the "T-Step."
forearm. - Alternate between the two shuffles.
- From the box position, make it so that - Add a spin.
both arms are lying down, one on top of - Add some arm movement.
the other.
- Slide the arms out.
- Put your palms back together.
WHACKING
- Created in dance clubs on the west coast
SHUFFLING of the USA in the 1970s.
- It focuses on arm movements, creating
- Started in Melbourne, Australia, in the shapes and poses above and around
underground rave scene back in the the head in a fast-moving style.
early 1980s. - It incorporates wild but controlled
- Also known as, “The Shuffle”. moves.
- It is a Freestyle Dance.
STEPS IN SHUFFLING:
T-STEP
STEPS IN WHACKING:
- Stand with your feet about 1 foot (0.3 Lines – Extend your arms down,
meters) apart. directly to the side, and straight up, to
- Lift your right foot and shuffle your left the side again, and back down.
foot inward.
Overhead - Start with your hands
around your collarbone area, then
move them up and behind your neck.
Rolls - Starting with your arm by your
side, "roll" it the first time, completing
around your chest, then roll it again to
end behind your neck.