Funk Styles & Popping
Learn the diverse techniques that comprise the foundations of the different styles of popping. Discover unique Northern California innovations that present robotic, animated, illusionary, and soulful movement. The foundation focus gives students improvisational skills that help retain the dance’s natural, uncompromising, and vibrant feel. In addition, students learn the history, beliefs, and language of this underground culture that now spans the globe.
Objectives
Movement, Musicality, Basics
- An understanding of the various styles of Funk Styles / Poppin
- Knowledge of different poppin techniques that enhance bodily perception, performance and creativity.
Intermediate Movement
- Knowledge of improvisation and composition
Abstract Styling
- Knowledge of how to talk about the different styles of popping based on the different histories of the different styles.
- Contextualizing poppin within the hip-hop dance universe
Rationale
- Unique and rare San Francisco- Bay Area, California robotic, animated, and illusionary styles and techniques.
- Learn the different styles and foundations of the dance that allows students to create their own distinct approach.
- The foundation focus gives students improvisational skills that help retain the dance’s natural, uncompromising, and vibrant fee -Learn how to pop to a variety of musical genres.
- Learn the culture, history, and aesthetics of the dance: past and present.