2nd 20 Flashcards
BLANK is a style of dance that started in the late 1960’s and 70’s. This dance style is characterized by sudden tensing and releasing of the muscles (“hitting”) to the rhythm of beats in music.
Pop dance
BLANK is a freestyle, improvisational street dance movement of soulful steps and robotic movements which make up the foundations of popping dance and turfing;
Boogaloo
Blank is when you reach another point or picture without any extra shaking or reverb in your body. It’s a clean stop, like you’re “stopping on a dime.”
Dime stop
blank is a terminology used for the technique in which dancers move one part of their body, and keep the rest of the body completely still.
Body Isolation
Blank is a terminology used for the technique in which dancers move one part of their body, and keep the rest of the body completely still.
Waving
A Footwork techniques that create the illusion that your feet are moving smoothly across the floor. The backslide (which people commonly confuse as the Moonwalk),
Gliding
Blank is deceptively simple: With your hands in fists you make an “around the world” rotation while sidestepping. Throw in a little hip shake for flair–and a core workout!
Cabbage Patch
This groove move–with a hand pass over the head–was named after “the human beat box” himself, rapper Doug E. Fresh.
Dougie
A newer entry from the L.A. street scene, With a lot of backwards leans and forward kicks, Jerkin’ is big, big, big on leg work.
jerkin
The four major moves are chest pops, swinging your arms, jabs, and stomps, and any combination can be performed with a rapid-fire frequency which is thrilling to behold.
Krumping
Blank is where emphasis is put on specific flexed movements which can be both isolated or performed by multiple body areas in a highly stylized manner.
Popping
is just what it sounds like, making a freeze frame and locked moment in time when coming out of or into a dance move.
Locking
Is a natural activity that becomes an artistic expression when structured and formed by the elements of dance design using compositional forms
Dance or movement
The ongoing underlying beat
How fast or slow the movements is
The length of time the movement lasts; long, medium, or short
Pulse
Speed
Duration
Patterns made by arranging long and short sounds or strong and light sounds
Rhythm
