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title: Hip-Hop Dance
description: Hip-Hop Dance encompasses street dance styles primarily performed to hip-hop music, including breaking, locking, and popping. Learners will understand rhythm, body isolations, freestyle techniques, and foundational choreography to execute high-energy routines with proper bounce and groove.
category: music-audio
subcategory: dance
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
url: /subject/hip-hop-dance
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# Hip-Hop Dance

Hip-Hop Dance encompasses street dance styles primarily performed to hip-hop music, including breaking, locking, and popping. Learners will understand rhythm, body isolations, freestyle techniques, and foundational choreography to execute high-energy routines with proper bounce and groove.

## Available Resources

1 Videos • 2 Books • 3 Websites

## Websites

### 1. Steezy Studio

Subscription platform of structured, on-demand dance classes taught by professional choreographers, spanning hip hop, house, popping, heels and fitness-oriented cardio routines. Classes break choreography into slowed-down sections with mirrored views, so beginners can build coordination, rhythm and stamina at home.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.steezy.co/

**Tags:** dance-fitness, hip-hop-dance, online-dance-classes, cardio, choreography

### 2. The Steps & Moves of Locking

Archive documenting each canonical locking step — Leo Lock, Scooby Doo, Skeeter Rabbit, Which-a-way and more — with the pioneer who created it and why. Lets you name and attribute what you are doing instead of copying shapes.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.lockerlegends.net/the-steps-moves-of-locking/

**Tags:** locking, funk-styles, street-dance, dance-history, dance-vocabulary

### 3. dancemagazine.com

Dance Magazine is a premier dance publication featuring news, performance coverage, and in-depth articles, including practical technique tips and training guidance. The site offers tutorials, warmups, exercises, interviews, and videos across ballet, contemporary, and other styles to help dancers develop core fundamentals and artistry.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://dancemagazine.com

**Tags:** websites, arts-design, creative-arts

## Books

### 1. Foundation: B-boys, B-girls and Hip-Hop Culture in New York

**Author:** Joseph G. Schloss

Ethnography of New York b-boying built on years inside the scene and interviews with Ken Swift, Alien Ness and Trac 2. Explains the breakbeat repertoire, how foundation is transmitted teacher-to-student, cypher etiquette and battle strategy.

**Difficulty:** Advanced | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/019533406X?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** breaking, b-boying, hip-hop-culture, ethnography, dance-history

### 2. Beginning Hip-Hop Dance

**Author:** E. Moncell Durden

Textbook plus 55 video clips covering grooves, locking, popping and boogaloo, waacking and house, organised around Durden's BEATS framework (body, emotion, action, time, space). Gives names, mechanics and cultural origin for each movement rather than routines.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1492544450?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** hip-hop-dance, grooves, locking, popping, house-dance, dance-textbook

## Videos

### 1. Everything Remains Raw: A Linear Discussion of Hip-Hop Dance

**Author:** E. Moncell Durden

Forty-minute university lecture tracing hip-hop dance back through Afro-diasporic social dance — the bounce, the get-down, the cypher — showing why the groove precedes the steps. Reframes hip-hop dance as a continuous folkloric lineage, not a 1970s invention.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raCsonw85OA

**Tags:** hip-hop-dance, dance-history, afro-diasporic-dance, social-dance, lecture

## Youtubes

### 1. VincaniTV — Breaking Tutorials

**Author:** Vince Horiuchi

A sequenced breaking curriculum taught like an actual class: toprock, six-step and footwork drills, freezes, then power moves. Working through it in order gives you a usable foundation vocabulary and clean weight transfer before attempting power.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.youtube.com/@VincaniTV

**Tags:** breaking, toprock, footwork, freezes, power-moves, dance-tutorial

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