How to Do Hip-Hop Dance Moves

Transcript Continuing with our groove series, we are going to learn the most basic of grooves, which is pretty much just accenting up. The two most famous people that I can imagine that do this all the time, are LL Cool J, and Mary J Blige. They do it in their videos. They do it …

Transcript Hola! So we’re going to take it to the islands, not Puerto Rico or Dominican Republic but more on the Jamaica, Trinidad side. I got my friend, Tech. He’s going to help me demonstrate the Willy Bounce; one of the many dances that come out of Jamaica. Reggae music, island music, island breezes, island …

Transcript Alright. So got my helper again. Tech is back. We’re going to show you how to do the Bart Simpson. So again, Bart Simpson is one of those dances from back in the day that was named after the popular thing or person of that time. Simpsons were brand new. Bart Simpson was the …

Transcript Part Two of the Robot. We’re going to show you how to mess around with the lower body as a robot instead of just the arms and the wrists and the elbows. Right? So there’s other parts of your body to use so we’re going to use them. We just finished bringing our elbow …

Transcript You guys remember Pretty in Pink, The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles. All those amazing movies featuring Molly Ringwald. Well, specially in the Breakfast Club, Molly Ringwald shows off her dance skills, right? When they’re in detention. Well, we’re going to learn how to do the Molly Ringwald today. We’re going to start off with …

Transcript All right, so keeping it on the New Jersey side of things, we’re going to break this up into two parts. So part one, we’re going to do the sexy walk. The first part, let’s start with just the legs. Okay. This is most of the dance. Right, so you’re going to step forward …

Transcript We are gonna start this with our left foot you gonna step forward, step one you gonna kick, two, three, four. Okay what you are doing you are stepping forward, you’re kicking front, step back, back, step forward kick front, step back, back. Okay so now when you do with a partner, like I …

Transcript Okay. So we’re going to talk a little bit about having confidence on the dance floor, either while you’re already out there or the confidence to get yourself out onto the dance floor. Okay? And it’s a very simple concept to say, it’s a little harder to do because it’s more internal than anything …

Transcript So part two of sexy walk comes with crank it and your little what, what, what section. OK. So DJ Little C4 and the Ocean Boys, they put this on the map. So continuing on. You’re going to get to the crank it section. Same giddy up feet as patty cake so. Left, right, …

Transcript Hey everybody, I’m Charlene, also known as “Chi-Chi.” I’ve been dancing for about, almost 7 years now. I’ve danced for Salt n’ Pepa, Shakira, LL Cool J, Mary J. Bilge, Snoop, Diddy. I got into dancing after college. I went to Rutger’s University and I graduated. And the only thing I knew is I …

Transcript [music] You guys have seen this dance all over YouTube, and I’m pretty sure you are going to recognize it once you try it. We’re going to do the SpongeBob. Don’t ask me why it’s called that. I don’t remember. SpongeBob has a couple of different ways, variations to do it. None of them …

Transcript So we all remember Grease. Olivia Newton John and John Travolta getting down at the end of the amazing movie musical. Right? But today we’re going to put a little New Jersey spin on it. And it’s called Get The Patty Cake Going. Alright? So we’re going to start with the hands first. There’s …

Transcript Skip, skip, skip to my Lou. Skip, skip, skip to my Lou. Alright, so we are going to keep up with the reggae theme, this is another reggae dance, Skip to My Lou. Tech and I are going to show it together. We’re going to start with the feet. You are hopping but it …

Transcript We’re taking you back to the island, island breeze, island everything. We’re going to show you how to do the Butterfly. Not the swim technique, but the dance, okay? You’re going to start with your feet a little bit wider than your shoulders. You’re going to bend your knees, because the motion of the …

Transcript Okay. So Miss Shakira, Miss “hips don’t lie,” brought us an updated version of Waka Waka, which was the World Cup song for 2010. And I am going to show you how to do the chorus of Waka Waka. So let’s focus on the feet first, because she’s super specific. So I want to …

Transcript Hey everybody. Tom and I are back. We’re going to show you how to glide which originated from tap dancers actually, Nicholas Brothers. You guys know them. If you don’t you should. So we’re going to start off, very basic version. We’re going to start off with our right foot. We’re going to just …

Transcript Teach me how to Dougie. Teach me, teach me how to Dougie. So this dance from Cali Swag District has been everywhere and people still love it so we are going to do it. Teach me how to Dougie is a tribute to Dougie Fresh, who actually used to do his version, the original …

Transcript Alright. So. As you can see from our beginning pose, we’re going into something slightly different. We are continuing with the different grooves of hip hop. This one is drop. We’re going to show you something that’s often done in locking called Leo Walks. Soft knees, always. You’re going to lift up your right …

Transcript So, made famous by the Rej3ctz who had Chris Brown in their video doing the Cat Daddy. Do you guys know what it is already? It’s all over YouTube. It’s all over your video channels. We’re going to break it down for you right here right now. You’re going to take your right arm. …

Transcript We are bringing you the Smurf, today. Not the la-la-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la-la. Not that Smurf. Dance move the Smurf. We don’t see it too often, but it has a very familiar groove. Groove, you say? Is that what I said? Groove? This is part of our groove series. Up, down, bounce, and drop. We are …

Transcript Hey everybody! So I got a new friend and his name is Tom and he’s my personal human robot. Tom and I are going to guide you through some steps in learning how to control your body for the Robot. First we are going to start off by relaxing every muscle in your body. …

Transcript So some of you might remember the movie RoboCop. Well if you do, if you don’t, this dance was named after him. So RoboCop is mostly upper body, but it gets a little flavorful down here, too. So we’ll start with the arms first. So you want to make a nice box with your …

Transcript Alright. So this next one is both for the ladies and the fellas because everybody can do this. We’re going to do body rolls. So we’re going to take it from the side, and we’re going to tilt a little bit. You can do that at home, too. So we’re going to tilt. We’re …

Transcript We’re going to get into the jump rope. There are so many ways to do it, I’m just going to show you one, so if you’ve learned another way before, if you’ve seen another way, it’s not wrong it’s just different. Jump rope, imagine yourself with ropes here. You’ve seen every little kid do …

Transcript Alright. So we’re going to talk about a little bit of what I like to consider the four main groups of hip hop. One is the up, one is down, one is bounce, and one is drop. That pretty much determines where your accent is. It helps you learn dances faster. It just helps …

Transcript We are going to go back, back, back in the time with the Roger Rabbit. I don’t know if you remember that movie, but Roger Rabbit the dance was named because that was the amazingly popular movie at that time. We have Roger Rabbit, one of our bounce grooves. If you remember what bounce …

Transcript So we’ve all had those times when we just don’t know what to do on the dance floor. Or, maybe you don’t even make it to the dance floor because you are just too afraid to get up because you don’t know what to do. A perfect move in any case whenever that happens …

Transcript Okay. So we got the Wop we’re working on now. Another dance from a little back in the day, right? So we’re going to start, feet apart, knees bent. The Wop, we’re going to just get the groove first. The Wop has an up groove, right? So we’re going to accent up. Accent up. …

Transcript All right. We all know this dance. We’ve all seen this dance. From step teams to fraternity marches, sorority walks, everything, right? We all call it different things. I call it the pony, so we’re going to learn the pony today. This dance is a little odd because as your legs move up, your …

Transcript Ladies, you can be grooving on the dance floor and there might be a guy who wants to come up and dance with you. So we’ve got Tec coming in here. Don’t get scared if they look like that, right. So. Now, the important thing here is if the lady is,you know, giving you …

Transcript We got a few different versions of Rock Your Hips. There was an old song, rock your hips and wait, and sit. Not doing that one. We’re going to do my own little Rock Your Hips. Ladies, this is a great move to use when you’re easing out onto the dance floor, or even …

Transcript The Humpty dance is your chance, do the hump. So, can you guess what’s next? We have the Humpty dance from Digital Underground. You remember the glasses and the big nose thing going on? So, we’re going to learn a piece of the Humpty dance. He had a little extensive [mis-esqueness] to it. So, …

Transcript Hola, buenos dias, djambo, mahalo, ciao. We are going to demonstrate how to wave. We’ve got Tom and Tech. We’ve got me. We are going to help you understand what it takes to wave through your arms and through your body. Waving is an extension and is part of the popping style of hip …

Transcript We’re going to take you to the Cabbage Patch. Not the dolls, but the dance. We got Tech here. He is going to demonstrate the Cabbage Patch for us. Let’s start with the arms. Tech moves his arms in a clockwise motion. Whichever way is easiest for you, counterclockwise or clockwise. You choose. We’re …

Transcript So I just want to talk a little bit about the four main grooves of hip-hop. Nothing’s set in stone. Nothing written in the Bible. It’s just something that I like to call it. And a couple of other people have affirmed what I’ve been teaching, as part of learning hip-hop dances, old and …

Transcript Hey everybody. So, we are going to break down the wobble dance today and if you have ever been to a BBQ, a wedding or a cruise, you will hear this, you will see this dance, you will hear this song on constant rotation about every 10 minutes. People love it. It is the …

Transcript We are going to work on the Running Man today. One of our bounce grooves, of one of the four main groups of hip hop; up, down, bounce and drop. It is a bounce groove because pretty much you are bouncing the whole time you leave the floor. Any time you leave the floor …

Transcript I’m back with my friends. My friends, my friends. I’m back. We are going to show you a dance called the Reebok. 1985, when Reeboks first came out. Again, another dance named after whatever was popular at that time. Reeboks took over in 1985, I imagine. So this dance is called the Reebok. We’re …