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Tutting and Finger Tutting
Creating geometric shapes and angular lines with hands, arms, and fingers to the beat — popularized by Michael Jackson's robot and refined into a precise geometric art form by street dance crews.
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Hip Hop Dance
Best Hip-Hop Dance Styles and Moves to Learn
Hip-hop dance is one of the world's most dynamic and culturally rich dance forms. This guide covers the essential hip-hop styles from breaking to krump, the foundational moves every dancer should know, and the culture behind the movement.
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Best Online Hip-Hop Dance Tutorials
Steezy Studio, 1MILLION Dance Studio's YouTube channel, and Street Dance International offer structured progressive hip-hop dance curricula from beginner to advanced levels with professional instructors.
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Hip-Hop Foundational Grooves
Before learning specific styles, mastering the groove — finding the bounce, weight transfer, and pulse of hip-hop music in your body — is the foundation every skilled hip-hop dancer builds upon.
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Krump
An expressive, intense street dance from South Los Angeles using chest pops, stomps, and arm swings to release emotion. Tommy the Clown created clowning; Tight Eyez developed krump as spiritual expression.
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Jerk Dance Style
Originated with California hip-hop groups like New Boyz in the late 2000s — precise leg movements, painted pants, and a distinctive bounce became a regional phenomenon before going viral.
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Voguing (Ballroom Dance)
Originated in Harlem's LGBTQ+ ballroom scene — poses inspired by Vogue magazine modeled in sequences. Popularized by Madonna's 'Vogue' but rooted deeply in Black and Latino queer community expression.
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Locking
Created by Don Campbell in Los Angeles — a comedy-infused style that 'locks' movements at specific points then releases. Characterized by fast movements with sudden pauses and friendly, theatrical energy.
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Breaking (B-Boying/B-Girling)
The original hip-hop dance — developed in the South Bronx in the early 1970s by DJ Kool Herc's crowds. Breaking combines toprock, downrock, power moves (windmills, headspins), and freezes in improvised battles.
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The Bounce (New Orleans)
Originating in New Orleans' bounce music scene — fast, rhythmic twerking to hyper-speed call-and-response tracks. Big Freedia's performances are the essential reference for understanding bounce's raw energy.
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Popping
A funk dance technique developed in Fresno, California — rapidly contracting and relaxing muscles to create a 'pop' effect through the body. Waving, tutting, and hitting are all variations of popping.
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Hip-Hop Cipher Culture and Battles
The freestyle cipher — dancers taking turns improvising in a circle — is hip-hop dance culture's heart. Competitions like Red Bull BC One (breaking) and World of Dance showcase the world's best talent.
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Waacking
A club dance style from 1970s Los Angeles LGBTQ+ disco culture — dramatic arm movements whipping through the air synchronized with the beat. Equal parts athleticism, storytelling, and theatricality.
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