Hiphop Dance History

Hiphop dance originated in a building “1520 Sedgwick Avenue”(1). It was a building for parties. DJs Kool Herc, the father of hippos was the host of a party for his sister on her birthday. He was a Disc Jockey who held other many parties around the city to bring some excitement in the city. DJs Kool says, “I was noticing people used to wait for particular parts of the record to dance, maybe [to] do their specialty move.”(2) When he put on breakbeat the crowed got louder and the room reeled with excitement. Breakbeat is"the moments in a record when the vocals and other instruments would drop out completely for a measure or two of pure rhythm"(3). Soon there were dancer dancing on the dance floor dancing on the breakbeat. He even extended the breakbeat by switching between the breakbeats with two CD player so the crowd can do their moves for longer period of time (4).
Break dancing is a very difficult dance that had spins and flips which takes a lot of practice to master it. B-Boys and B-girls were the dancers called at that time(5). Watching the B-Boys and Girls were fun but the people at the dance party also sarted doing their own dance. From this point on his hop dance grew into different types such as breaking, boogaloo, locking, piping and many