*****WHAT IS POPPING DANCE**** #Popping dance style is a unique type of street dancing that originated in 1970s California as one of first off-shoots of funk style, making it related yet quite distinct from hip hop dancing. The art of pop dancing is both an important contribution to dance in general and a very significant influence on western dancing. Its no wonder why because it can be absolutely spectacular to watch. The term popping comes from the action of what defines the dance, or the action of doing a pop, where muscles alternate between tensing and loosening up to create a jerk-like twitch that, when combined with exotic movements, resemble what a miming robot would do. Regarding what it looks like, youve probably already seen elements of it at work on TV, in dance off(battle) scenes in movies such as Step-Up, by street performers, or maybe even at your local dance club. Or perhaps youve been amazed by the dubstep dance videos that are popular on youtube (which are mostly popping and its variations). Needless to say, popping dance performances are highly engaging to the visual senses. One needs only to experience popping to be blown away by its illusions, which appear to defy the laws of gravity and push the limits of what is believed to be possible for the human body. The use of the body is extensive and unconventional in this style, consisting of pops in the arms, legs, chest, or neck. In this dance style style the performers known as poppers do the jerking movements or pops to go with the beat and other elements in a song and mix in techniques from other styles such as the robot, waving, tutting, and liquid to create highly captivating shows. They even interact with the crowd with movements that involve spectators more directly than other dance styles, including the use of facial expressions. Its high entertainment value is derived from its reality bending look with different methods such as miming, strobing, time distortion, and boogaloo where it seems as if the performer has rubber limbs. It is commonly mixed up with break dancing, but those who learn to pop dance will notice that it centers on standing up and the whole body, where some of the special moves focus on creating a distinct effect whether with rapid ticking movements that look like stop-motion or liquid where everything is smooth, mesmerizing, and fluid. #Waving**** is a dance style composed of a series of movements that give the appearance that a wave is traversing a dancers body. Waving is thought to have grown out of the popping and funk dance scene and is often seen combined with popping and its related styles. Today, however, there are many practitioners who practice waving without involving popping, such as David Elsewhere. Waving is also seen combined with liquid dancing, especially when practiced within electronica communities. Moves The armwave is started by holding both arms out to the sides of the dancers body, parallel to the ground. The dancer lifts then lowers adjoining sections of his arm while keeping the rest of his body at apparent rest starting with the fingertips in one arm and ending at the fingertips of the other arm. It is very important that the rest of the body appear to be motionless. One movement in the armwave that typically gives beginners trouble is lifting the elbow. When lifting the elbow and otherwise remaining stiff, the dancer also lifts the hand. Lifting multiple points of the arm is undesirable and so the dancer must actively lower his hand to maintain the illusion that it remains still. When the wave reaches the chest, the wave can travel either in front of the chest or along the back where the dancer can add accents such as turning his head in the direction of wave movement or inhaling as the wave reaches the chest and exhaling as it passes. With practice, the dancer can appear to have multiple waves travelling along his arms, start and end a wave at any point on his arms, and transition the wave through his body as a bodywave. There are seven and eleven point waves. The eleven point wave runs as finger knuckes-knuckles-wrist-elbow-shoulder-chest-shoulder-elbow-wrist-knuckles-finger knuckles. The seven point wave begins at the wrists. The bodywave similarly gives an appearance that a wave is traveling up or down the body. It involves flexing muscles along the waves path and bending knees and ankles. #Liquid Dancing****** A illusionary dance form that attempts fluid continous movement with a emphasis on the interplay between the arms and hands. One attempts to portray a illusion that a energy or flow is flowing through ones body. Many beleive this dance to have been popularized by a dance crew the Liquid Pop Collective. (Now the Digital Hybrid Experiment) The origin of this dance is disputed and is said to have arrised from the use of glowsticks at Electronic Dance Music Festivals or from waving performed by poppers or funk style dancers. Liquid is a constantly evolving dance style and consists of many techniques including: Waving Rails Threads Splits Traces Liquid does NOT involve glowsticks... liquid is a dance, glowsticking is a totally seperate thing #robot (or mannequin) is an illusionary street dance style – often confused with popping – that attempts to imitate a dancing robot or mannequin. Roboting gained fame after Michael Jackson used the dance when he performed Dancing Machine with his brothers, and later performed the dance during his solo career in songs such as Billie Jean. Description The robot is simply the illusion of being a robot. Movements of the robot are normally started and finished with a dimestop (a very abrupt stop), to give the impression of motors starting and stopping, but poppers have also been known to do the robot with a pop to the beat. As long as the illusion of being a robot is maintained, it is considered the robot. The dance was created in 1967. Robot dancing is often considered a subsection of popping because poppers often include the robot in their routines, sometimes adding pops to the beat while maintaining the illusion of a robot, but the robot also exists as its own dance and is sometimes considered a performance rather than a dance when the performer is imitating a robot without any music. When done without music it is considered to be mime, instead of dance. Street theater often featured mimes who did a mechanical man or puppet style illusion, without music. In the late 1960s, the style was used while social dancing to funk or soul music. Charles Robot Washington was not the first to strictly imitate a robot as a mime, however he and his partner Robot Ann were the first to socially couple dance the style to music at parties and clubs, and it was at this point it became a party dance and later combined with other illusion styles to form todays popping style. It is commonly known as Robotics. Roboting has also been likened to the jazz-era folk dance of puppeting (a style also appreciated in some colors of experimental ballet), whereby the dancer would emulate the mechanical movements of a simple musical box doll.this is not to be confused with Robotics. This is not to be confused with robotics dance.. #dupstep Dubstep /ˈdʌbstɛp/ is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in South London, England. It emerged in the late 1990s as a development within a lineage of related styles such as 2-step garage, broken beat, drum and bass, jungle, dub and reggae.[1] In the UK the origins of the genre can be traced back to the growth of the Jamaican sound system party scene in the early 1980s.[1][2] The music generally features syncopated drum and percussion patterns with bass lines that contain prominent sub bass frequencies. The earliest dubstep releases date back to 1998, and were usually featured as B-sides of 2-step garage single releases. These tracks were darker, more experimental remixes with less emphasis on vocals, and attempted to incorporate elements of breakbeat and drum and bass into 2-step. In 2001, this and other strains of dark garage music began to be showcased and promoted at Londons night club Plastic People, at the Forward night (sometimes stylised as FWD>>), which went on to be considerably influential to the development of dubstep. The term dubstep in reference to a genre of music began to be used by around 2002 by labels such as Big Apple, Ammunition, and Tempa, by which time stylistic trends used in creating these remixes started to become more noticeable and distinct from 2-step and grime.[3] A very early supporter of the sound was BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel, who started playing it from 2003 onwards. In 2004, the last year of his show, his listeners voted Distance, Digital Mystikz, and Plastician in their top 50 for the year.[4] Dubstep started to spread beyond small local scenes in late 2005 and early 2006; many websites devoted to the genre appeared on the internet and aided the growth of the scene, such as dubstepforum, the download site Barefiles and blogs such as gutterbreakz.[5] Simultaneously, the genre was receiving extensive coverage in music magazines such as The Wire and online publications such as Pitchfork Media, with a regular feature entitled The Month In: Grime/Dubstep. Interest in dubstep grew significantly after BBC Radio 1 DJ Mary Anne Hobbs started championing the genre, beginning with a show devoted to it (entitled Dubstep Warz) in January 2006.[6][7][8] Towards the end of the decade the genre started to become more commercially successful in the UK, with more singles and remixes entering the music charts. Music journalists and critics also noticed a dubstep influence in several pop artists work. Around this time, producers also began to fuse elements of the original dubstep sound with other influences, creating fusion genres including future garage, the slower and more experimental post-dubstep, and the harsher electro house and heavy metal influenced brostep, the latter of which greatly contributed to dubsteps rising mainstream popularity in the United States. #tutting Tutting The style was originally practiced by young funk dancers and is derived from the positions people were drawn in the days of the Ancient Egyptians. It is these positions seen in these portraits that have been adopted by dancers today. So when you tut you change the angles of your arms according to the beat. Those who are more experienced pop when changing from angle to angle thus refining the style. Tutting is still a greatly respected move and King Tut aka Mark Benson is widely acclaimed for pioneering the style.
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