Beginner Level Hip-Hop

Goals

Your goal is to graduate from the Beginner Level Hip-Hop Program and move into the Intermediate Level. To accomplish this you must:

         *Passing grade of 4 or better. Scores based on the student’s overall level of execution and understanding.

         *Right of Passage = Every accolade must be earned and achieved.

Grooves 

  • Bounce Groove

Beginner Steps

  • Step Touch (2-Step) 
  • 3-Step (Pas de bourrée) 
  • Ball Change 
  • 4-Step (Electric Slide) 
  • 4-Step Turn 
  • Slide Step 
  • Slide In 
  • Kick Step (Kick Ball Change) 
  • Knee Lift 
  • Side Step 
  • Step Turn 
  • Criss Cross 
  • Pony 

Isolations 

  • Head Isolations
  • Shoulder Isolations
  • Elbow Isolations
  • Arm Isolations
  • Hand Isolations

Breaking – Street Dance Form

Top Rocks

  • Front Top Rock (Front Rock/Front Step/Indian Step)
  • Hip Twist (Indian Step Crossover)

Go Downs

  • Squat
  • 360 

Footwork

  • Kick-Outs
  • Shuffles 

Power Moves

  • Helicopter
  • Swipes

Freezes

  • Turtle Freeze
  • Handstand

Popping – Funk Dance Form

  • Hits
  • Dime Stops
  • Fresno
  • Beg. Tutting
  • Beginner Waving
  • Beginner Robotics/Botting
  • Beginner Floats/Gliding

Locking – Funk Dance Form

  • Funk Groove – Locking Groove – Locking Funk – Up movement (knees going back)
  • Muscle man/Strong man/Uplock
  • Lock/Campbellock
  • Wrist Twirl/Twirls/Cheerios/Wrist Rolls
  • Point/Uncle Sam Point
  • Five/Clap
  • Punch/Pacing
  • Porkchop
  • Alpha
  • Jet Split/James Brown Split

Social Dance Moves 

  • Kid n’ Play (Charlie Rock, Charleston)
  • Happy Feet 
  • Running Man
  • The Bart Simpson 
  • The Cabbage Patch
  • The Humpty Dance
  • Electric Slide
  • Cupid Shuffle 
  • Butterfly 
  • Stick and Roll
  • Patty Duke (Slow, Fast, Doubles, Single-single-double-double)
  • Box Step
  • Jack and Wave
  • Spongebob
  • Guess
  • Robocop
  • The Whoa