FUNDAMENTALS
Hip-Hop, Waacking, Popping, House, Jazz are all stemming from African American roots and also Latino roots. Respect the culture. Immerse yourself within the culture and get to know why these dances exist, listen to the music, and vibe with the people around you.
JAZZ TECHNIQUE
A Follow Along Warm Up including Grooves, Isolations, Stretching and some Strength.
Learn Outside Jazz Pirouettes with @stephydance! She is here to teach you all basics that you need to know to get your turns clean and on point for a Jazz or Street Jazz routine!
Learn Chaîné Turns to help you with your Street Jazz life. Stephanie Lim (@stephydance) is with us again to teach us this technique!
GROOVES
This tutorial covers the Harlem Shake groove. Enjoy!!
This tutorial covers a Basic Down Groove of Hip-Hop.
This tutorial teaches you “The Dougie”. Look up the song “Teach Me How To Dougie!”
OLD SCHOOL GROOVES
Check out the RESOURCES page for YouTube videos of these steps too!
OLD SCHOOL GROOVES
Check out the RESOURCES page for YouTube videos of these steps too!
OLD SCHOOL GROOVES
The Alf, Happy Feet, and The Humpty Dance
OLD SCHOOL GROOVES
The Prep, The Smurf, The Patty Duke
OLD SCHOOL GROOVES
Wu Tang, Walk It Out, Cat Daddy
OLD SCHOOL GROOVES
Party Step Touch, The Fila
SOUTHERN GROOVES
GROOVES ORIGINATING FROM THE SOUTH
Some grooves that focus primarily on the hips. These grooves are included in this tutorial:
Four Corners
Hip Circle
Bronx Whine
Tik Tok Hip Sway
Jumping into some newer school grooves with this tutorial Learn The Shmoney Dance, The Red Nose, and what might be called The Mary J. Blige. Still looking into the name of the last groove! ENJOY!
Some grooves that focus primarily on the hips. These grooves are included in this tutorial:
Four Corners
Hip Circle
Bronx Whine
Tik Tok Hip Sway
Jumping into some newer school grooves with this tutorial Learn The Shmoney Dance, The Red Nose, and what might be called The Mary J. Blige. Still looking into the name of the last groove! ENJOY!
Rooftop Groove that I know as a Hip-Hop groove but it also lends itself to a glide. There is also another step, I believe stemming from Dancehall, that is called the Rooftop so I have added all of these here within this Tutorial.
The Shamrock Groove.
The dance step called the “All In”.
ISOLATIONS
Learn the techniques involved in waving including arm waves, body waves, body rolls, and concepts using waves.
Full Body Isolation Practice
Cobra Isolation and in depth Isolation Drill.
STEPS/FOOTWORK
A Basic Top Rock Step.
One of my favorite Top Rock Moves!
You see this step in many ways and in many forms throughout Hip-Hop & House. It is a great step that offers many variations and will help with weight shift.
Funky and groovy step involving a heel/toe. Great for learning how to use feet and weight shifting.
Pas de bouree is a step you will always see in dance. It is so much fun to do and is one of my favorite steps. It’s good for weight shifting, rhythm, traveling and turning. This tutorial walks you through the step and adds on with a little quarter turn drill.
This is the first way I learned how to glide. We will eventually get into more advanced but here is the beginner drill!
This Heel Toe Step is the Dancehall/Hip-Hop version as opposed to House version down below.
A Ball Change with a Step and a Groove used often in Hip-Hop and House.
POPPING
Here is a video about basic hitting techniques involved in Popping. Please check out SUN KIM’s CLASSES ONLINE AND IN NYC!!! if you want more in depth Popping Training. And as always there are many resources on YouTube, a full page of resources can be found HERE!
Here is a video about basic dime stopping techniques involved in Popping. As per the references in this video please check out Shields & Yarnell Videos and Tabo tutorials on YouTube.
A basic breakdown of Boogaloo Rolls that are used in Popping or sometimes Hip-Hop routines.
WAACKING
Intro Exercises and Explanation of Waacking. RIP Tyrone Proctor, please look him up and learn about a very influential force in Waacking style. Link to Princess Lockeroo’s Classes can be found HERE.
An Arm Roll that expands on the Basic Arm Roll above.
Basic Arm Roll of Waacking. Link to Princess Lockeroo’s Classes can be found HERE.
My favorite arm roll. I would say this is an Adv/Beg Technique.
Posing within Waacking
Lines with you arms and moving them at two different tempos. This is an Advanced Technique.
HOUSE
The main fundamental and essence of House…
The Jack…Read more about it in this article. I list all the House teachers in NYC in the video but I left out Kim Holmes and Tone McGregor.
So please note them as well. When quarantine is over, I encourage everyone to take the House classes available in NYC and beyond. I cannot speak to the other teachers but the teachers listed in this video are all amazing.
A foundational step that leads into many more variations and understanding of footwork.
TIPS FOR TRAINING
Tips for training your Freestyle and how it differs from training Choreography.