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Popping
Sudden muscle contractions creating a sharp popping illusion throughout the body — Electric Boogaloo's West Coast style is the foundation of all illusion-based hip-hop dance.
▲ Steady·Score +17
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Best Hip-Hop Dance Styles of All Time
Hip-hop dance exploded from the streets of New York and LA to conquer stages, music videos, and competitive arenas worldwide. These are the defining styles that built hip-hop's visual language.
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02
Memphis Jookin
A sliding, gravity-defying footwork style from Memphis Tennessee — jookin's fluidity and seeming weightlessness produce movements that look physically impossible.
▲ Steady·Score +15
03
Turfing (Oakland Turf Dance)
Oakland's unique street style combining popping, mime, and storytelling — turfing tells visual narratives through movement, with each dancer creating their own personal visual language.
▲ Steady·Score +11
04
House Dance
Emerging from Chicago and New York house music clubs in the 1980s — house dance blends African footwork, salsa, capoeira, and jazz into a joyful, community-focused social style.
▲ Steady·Score +10
05
Tutting
Angular, geometric arm and hand movements creating box and rectangular shapes — tutting's precision and symmetry look robotic yet fluid, inspired by ancient Egyptian art.
▲ Steady·Score +9
06
Locking
Don Campbell's funky style of freezing mid-movement then continuing — locking's exaggerated poses, pointing, and interaction with the audience give it a uniquely theatrical energy.
▲ Steady·Score +8
07
Waacking
A dramatic arm-swinging style born in 1970s gay LA clubs — waacking's theatrical, fashion-forward poses and lightning-fast whipping arm movements are both athletic and artistic.
▲ Steady·Score +8
08
Lite Feet
New York's 2000s subway-born dance style — lite feet features fast footwork, the Harlem Shake, and Get Lite move, emerging from subway performance culture in the Bronx and Harlem.
▲ Steady·Score +7
09
Flexing (Brooklyn Style)
Brooklyn's bone-breaking, contortionist-influenced style — flexing uses extreme joint isolation and slow, deliberate body bending to create visually disturbing and mesmerising illusions.
▲ Steady·Score +7
10
Jerking
A California teen style of the late 2000s — featuring the Reject move, skinny jeans, and a bouncy, irreverent energy that swept YouTube and influenced hip-hop fashion globally.
▲ Steady·Score +6
11
Breaking (B-Boying)
The original hip-hop dance — created in the South Bronx in the 1970s, breaking combines toprock, footwork, power moves, and freezes into the most athletically demanding street dance.
▲ Steady·Score +4
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Krumping
An expressive, aggressive style born in South LA in the early 2000s — krumping uses stomping, chest pops, arm swings, and intense facial expression as emotional release.
▲ Steady·Score +3
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