2. Break dance - acrobatic style of street dance. It is called break dance
because it was originally danced to the ‘break’ in a piece of music.
Popping and locking – Popping was created by Sam Solomon in Fresno,
California and performed by his crew the Electric Boogaloos. A dance
technique of quickly contracts and relaxes their muscles to create a
jerking effect in the dancer’s body. In locking a dancer holds their
positions longer, a locker's dancing is characterized by consistently locking
in place and after a quick pause moving again to make it look really
effective and interesting.
Hip hop – a style of street dance performed to hip-hop music. More than
30 years old, hip-hop dance became widely known after the first
professional breaking, locking, and popping crews formed in the 1970s. The
most influential groups are the Rock Steady Crew, The Lockers, and the
Electric Boogaloos