Popping is a funk dance and hip-hop style. The initial basic form is to make the dancer's body vibrate through the rapid contraction and relaxation of muscles in various parts. This technology is called Pop.
Popping can also refer to some dance styles and techniques related to Popping, which are often integrated into Popping to make the dance more varied.
Basically, pop elements and most other funk styles closely related to them were produced in different parts of the west coast of the United States in the 1970s. Some styles may have been produced earlier, but the specific inventors and history need to be verified.
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In China, many people mistakenly think that mechanical dancing is popping. Mechanical dance is only a one-sided and inaccurate translation of Popping given by the media when hip-hop culture entered China in the late 1980s. The forms of Popping are diversified, and each Popper's dance style is also different. Machinery is not a word that can sum up the characteristics of Popping.
Pop is an action of shaking different parts of your body, which is achieved by shaking your muscles. You need a sense of rhythm very much, and you need poppin-style music. You need to straighten your hands to do pop, or you can lift your shoulders to do pop, including your chest and legs.
Popping has many related styles and elements, such as Wave, Robot, Slide, Kingtut and so on, and popping dancers often join it. But in fact, these contents, like Popping, belong to their own independent style, but they are usually the contents that everyone will learn and master selectively while learning Popping.
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