How to Invent New Hip Hop Dance Moves

Hip Hop music and dance constantly change and evolve, so inventing new Hip Hop dance moves is easier than it might seem. To make your own moves, you have to first be a good Hip Hop dancer with a sense of the steps that already exist. Experience with other types of dance can also be useful in bringing new moves to the floor.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

1. Dance with other people who are good Hip Hop dancers in order to ensure that you know the basics and their interpretations. Before you invent your own moves, look at the way that other people use basic Hip Hop dance moves in creative ways and add personal touches.

2. Modify existing dance moves yourself by combining moves, slowing them down, speeding them up and adding creative touches. Before you start inventing moves, it's easiest to practice changing and personalizing existing moves.

3. Focus on the basic Hip Hop motions and apply them to dance moves. For example, Hip Hop uses a lot of pop and glide--fast, clean moves combined with slower, flowing motions. You can use pop and glide motion to make a new dance move fit into Hip Hop.

4. Invent moves to a particular song. Many new Hip Hop moves, like walking it out and the Sponge Bob dance, are done to specific songs almost exclusively. If you invent a catchy move to a specific song, you can have whole crowds doing it on cue simply by playing the song.

5. Bring back retro moves and modify them. Funk is an especially good source of older, classic moves that you can change to fit Hip Hop dance better. You can even use moves that look outdated or silly to parody them by working them into a more modern Hip Hop routine.

Resources

• Watch videos of Hip Hop and funk moves to get ideas.