Hip-Hop Dance Moves for Kids

Transcript What’s up, everybody? Jeff Cowans. The ladies are going to show you how to do “whip my hair”. You’ve heard the song, you’ve seen the video, you’ve seen the dance, now let’s try it. What they’re going to do is they’re going to turn to their right side and they’re going to whip their …

Transcript Boom, badoom, boom boom, badoom, boom boom, baby, super bass. That’s what you’re about to learn right now, the Super Bass dance by Nicki Minaj. You ready to show them? All right. So this is how it’s done. Your hands are up like this, and you’re going to move to the side for a …

Transcript Hey, what’s up? This is Jeff Cowans. I’m a dancer, I’m a dance teacher, I’m a choreographer and I run a dance crew, the Get ‘Em Boys and the Get ‘Em Girls. So I caught this dancing bug around 2000. Been dancing way before that, just around the house, you know, having a good …

Transcript Walk it out. Walk it out. Walk it out. Walk it out. Walk it out. Walk it out. Hey, what’s up. We’re going to show you how to do this dance. Walk it out. Walk it out. Walk it out. Walk it out. You’ve seen it. You probably did it at a party, but …

Transcript Hey what’s up. I’m Jeff Cowans and I’m going to show you guys some really easy, basic, tutting moves. On my side I have Jared over here and I have Eric on this side. So they’re going to help me out. So now you have three people to watch and that’s three different tutting …

Transcript Jeff Cowans: Hey, what’s up? This time around we’re going to teach you guys how to do the wave. Yeah. There’s a lot of different ways you can do the wave. You can do it with your body. You can do it with your arms. You can do it with your back, even. But …

Transcript All right, so there was this group back in the ’90s called Wu-Tang Clan. For some reason, now they have a dance, Wu-Tang Clan, and everybody wants to do it. We’re going to show you how to do it. This is what it looks like. I’m going to do it first and then we’re …

Transcript Hey, what’s up? All right, here’s another dance you’ve seen before. You’ve seen it in a music video by The Rejects. It’s called the Jerk. A lot of people confuse it with other dances but now you’re going to find out what it is and how to do it. This is the jerk. You …

Transcript All right. Now a lot of people think this next step I’m doing right now is called the Jerk but it’s not. This is the Reject and we’re going to show you guys how to do it. Let’s start out to the side. So you’re like this to the side. Pick up your left …

Transcript Hey, what’s up? We’re going to teach you something else right now. This is a knee drop. You might call it something else, but it is what it is. You’re going to drop to your knee, right? So this is how you do it, nice and slow. Not easy, so make sure you’re paying …

Transcript Hey, what’s up. This is Jeff Cowans. I’ve already shown you how to do the kick-step-step, but some of you have been asking about the kick-step-step like Justin Bieber does. We could do that too. In a minute, you’ll be able to do it too. Alright, so with this kick-step-step, you’re going to put …

Transcript Hey, what’s up? I’m here and I’m getting ready to show you a dance we call the Shamrock. This is Genesee. She’s going to show you how girls do it. It’s not really much of a difference, but different dancers have different styles and different flavor to add to it. So, I’m going to …

Transcript What’s up? I’m Jeff. This is my boy Jared right here. We’re going to show you how to do a hinge kick. It’s going to look pretty tough, but once we break it down, it’s going to be pretty easy. So you want to try it? All right. This is what you’re going to …

Transcript Jeff: What’s up? We’re going to teach you something new. It’s not this side to side thing we’re doing. It’s going to be kick, step, step. You ready for this? Speaker 1: Yes. Jeff: All right. So, we wanted to try this. You seen it in the club, seen it at a party, seen …

Transcript Hey, what’s up? I’m back. This is Jeff Cowans, and I’m going to show you to do some isolations. There are a lot of different parts of your body where you could do isolations, and there’s a lot of different isolations. But right now, we’re going to work with this body isolation and this …

Transcript Hey what’s up. Here’s another one for you that you have to try. I know you probably tried it in the room with the door closed and in the bedroom. I see you. But now we learn it how to do it the right way. Yeah. This is called Pop Lock and Drop It. …

Transcript I got a really easy one for you guys to try. We call it Pump It. There’s a lot of different ways to do it, and I’m going to show you two different ways, one when you want to get really crazy in the club, and another one when you want to get really …

Transcript Hey. What’s up, everybody? Let’s try something new this time. It’s the chest pop. There’s a lot of different times in dance you can use it. You find when you want to use it. We’ll show you how to do it. This is the chest pop. What you want to do is in your …

Transcript What’s up. This time around we’re going to show you how to do the Heel Toe. This dance just basically goes by the name. It’s called the Heel Toe so you know you’re going to use a heel and a toe. Right? So we’re going to start out taking our right foot and put …

Transcript Jeff: Hey, what’s up? We’re going to show you how to do a dance that we call The Happy Feet. You’ve got to try this out. It’s pretty fun. It gets a little complicated somewhere in there, but it gets fun. Check out the feet. All right, so what’s going to happen is your …

Transcript Hey what’s up? Right now we are going to teach you guys how to do the Dougie. Yes? This is a little bit complicated. Only because there is so much to do on top, so much to do at the bottom. But, once we break it down, you’ll have it. It’s nice and smooth …

Transcript Hey, what’s up? I’m here to teach you another hip-hop move. This is a really, really basic hip-hop move. This is actually the beginning of your learning process. When you start learning hip-hop and you start feeling like you want to learn how to dance and you want to do hip-hop dance, you should …

Transcript Hey, what’s up? This is Jeff Cowans. I’m here with my boy Eric, and we’re going to show you how to do a freeze. We’re down low, because a freeze is done on the floor. There are many different freezes you could do. You have baby freeze, chair freeze, and so many different freezes. …

Transcript Hey, what’s up? I’m Jeff Collins. And now, I’m going to teach you guys how to do the cat daddy. You might have seen it before in a Rej3ctz video also featuring Chris Brown. He’s doing it, so now you want to do it. We’re going to show you how to do it. This …

Transcript Hey, what’s up? This is Jeff Cowans, and I’m here with Aiden and Eric, and I’m going to show you this new dance craze that’s catching on. Everybody’s doing it, and it didn’t even start close to us, but it got to us, and now we’re doing it. We’re going to show you how …

Transcript Hey, what’s up? I’m Jeff Cowans. I’m going to teach you how to do the Cupid shuffle. I’m sure you’ve seen it at a party, wanted to get it and try it, and now you’re going to learn it. Here’s how it goes. You take four steps to the side, yeah, to your right …

Transcript Hey, what’s up. This is Jeff Cowans and I’m going to show you how do The Bernie. There was a movie a long time ago, Weekend at Bernie’s. I loved it. I actually saw it in the movies, even though I was young. I liked the movie. It was good. In the movie, Bernie, …

Transcript What’s up? This is Jeff Cowans. I’m going to show you guys how to do a six step. We’re going to start it standing up and count to six throughout this. It’s not that hard. You’ve just got to keep up with the numbers, and it’ll work out for you. All right. So we’re …