Origin of Popping in Hip Hop Dance

Series Summary

Have you ever been ridin' dirty in your Cadillac letting your chains hang low and wondered if your Laffy Taffy is getting a little too loose? Well don't worry, you don't have to be at a party in da club to shake it like a polaroid picture, thanks to the Hip Hop expert at Expert Village, you can bring sexy back right in your living room. That's right, there is no need to blame it on the rain and stand under umbrellas, cause you can back it up and get your bootilicious body feeling healthy again while kickin' it at your own home.

A unique form of hip hop dance is popping it. In this free video series, watch as professional dancer Safi A. Thomas teaches how to pop it in hip hop dance. Learn how to leg pop, wrist pop, arm pop, full body pop, and more choreography ideas. Find out how to do the box tut, strobing, and ticking with these easy dance lessons. So let your tootsie roll and give a great big booty clap! You can now work it out while you walk it out thanks to the experts at Expert Village.

Video Transcript

"On behalf of Expert Village I'm Safi Thomas from the hip hop dance conservatory here in New York City. These are out dancers and we are bringing you popping today. So we are starting with popping and popping is a art form that started over in the west coast. It was actually brought over here by a dancer names Boogaloo he was a locking and Boogaloo . So when popping came over here or popping is pretty much a contraction and release in the muscle. Popping was developed by a man name Boogaloo Sam or Sam Salmon. It was his pretty much a style a dancing that also came from another style called hitting. So it was hitting and hitting was eventually developed to popping by Boogaloo Sam. That is what we are going to go through. We are going to go through what popping is and how to develop your body to be able to do it nice and easy. So check it out. "