The Indian subcontinent is inherently culturally friendly. However, these subcontinents are mostly familiar with classical dance or sub-continental style. Western HipHop culture from across the oceans is rapidly gaining ground in our culture, regardless of its own importance or practice. At present, the younger generation is seen as embracing the latest ideas of Western hip hop culture. Nowadays, the popularity of hip-hop dance in various dance competitions or performances is easy to guess.
The idea of hip hop culture originated from Street Dance. Along with the beats, the funky kind of street dance is considered to be the main source of hip hop dance. However, in the Western world, when hip hop dances arose, there was no specific grammatical rule of the dance style, so different street dancers practiced hip hop dance as they did. As a result, many styles have emerged in hip hop dance. But today we will go into detail about popping one of the most popular hip hop dances today.
Although hip-hop culture has been in Western culture for many years, pop dance culture is not an old idea. Pop dance originated after the sixties. From that time on, various street dancers used to practice robotic dance and pop flavors. At that time a mixed type of dance was practiced by bringing together certain types of dance styles. Until then popping has not been practiced as a completely new dance style. However, for the first time in 1976, a dancer named Sam Solomon officially started the pop dance culture. Sam originally created a new genre called 'Electric Boogaloo', combining the styles of Boogaloo Dance and Popping. That's why in the world of hip hop dance he is known as Boogaloo Sam. And Sam is captured as the promoter of pop dance.
Pop dance is not like traditional dance. The specialty of popping is to dance in different postures through the control of the muscles of the body. The main method of popping a fancy presentation of a jerk is to "shake" the muscles suddenly in the rhythm of the beat of the music, and then shake the body by normalizing it to the normal. The less time it takes to muscularly shake it back to normal, the more the pop dance moves become apparent to the audience. Basically, the main technique of pop dance is to make certain parts of the body as a wave through jerking.
Dance is accomplished by using certain types of gestures together in pop dance. Let's take a look at some general rules on these particular postures.
Ticking
Ticking is mainly involved in the initial movement of popping. During ticking, various parts of the body, such as the chest, biceps, triceps, legs, etc. are suddenly tightened and relaxed and then relaxed. During ticking, each part of the body's muscles needs to be addressed separately. When a popper is ticking on a particular organ, the rest of the body, except that organ, is fairly normal. So, paying close attention to it is very important.
Strating
One of the most popular San Francisco style popping styles is strutting. Its main feature is a mixed dance of party dance and regular popping, which creates a new kind of dance flavor. Although popping is done on many occasions, striating is more commonly used in group dance. When all the crew members perform organically in some style together, it makes the audience look better.
Weaving
Weaving is made by constantly pushing the body parts together like a wave. Body waving is quite an eye-catching step, as it uses a lot of subtle movement in pop dance. Basically some of the waving can be seen in pop dance, including hand flow, arm wave, chest wave.
Gliding
Gliding is essentially a kind of footwork. Gliding is the sliding of the foot over the palm. Like all other hip hop dances, popping is not usually done in such a wide space, it can be done in relatively few places. That is why sometimes if a dancer wants to change places, then they change places with different footwork or glides.
Animation
Animation refers to imitation of something in particular. In the robotic dance, such movements are made by keeping the body straight, while the dancers dance differently, imitating the behavior of different animals. Animation is basically used to add a different flavor to the dance.
Square Crow
If the English word Bangla stands for 'kaktarua'. Scarrow popping is a process that performs the same way by hanging two hands on either side like a kakatarau. Although the Kakataduras are in the same position, the Poppers imitate the different styles of Kakataduara in this way, and they constantly change the step.
One of the nice trends of pop or breaking hip hop dance is that such dance competitions are often called 'Challenging the Opponent'. During the competition the two crew members face to face. Then one or more poppers from each crew pop up in their own style. Then as they left behind, the other cruel dancers popped forward in the same way. Since popping such head-to-head battles have been in vogue since the beginning, for decades these dancers have been trying to create some basic movements to make their dance more appealing, so that they can dance more easily than the rival crew members. Goes As a result, new styles are being added to the pop dance regularly.
Although popping is currently popular in Bangladesh as a dance category, the practice or competition of popping at professional level is very rare. Some Bangladeshi dance crews (Anonymousmus crew, Blue Poppers) who perform hip hop dances practice popping in addition to break dance. In Bangladesh, for the first time on 2018, members of Anonymous's crew organized a hip-hop dance competition called 'The Cipher'. Although the practice is low, popping still holds a good position in judging the interest and choice of the dancers.
Source : roar.media/bangla/main/art-culture/popping-dance-a-form-of-hiphop-dance-style/