Hip hop dancing

Hip-hop dance
A b-boy performing in Turkey surrounded by a group of spectators.
Main Styles
Breaking – Locking – Popping
Derivative Styles
Street	Memphis Jookin' – Turfing – Jerkin' – Krumping
Studio	Commercial/New Style – Jazz-funk – Lyrical hip-hop
Cultural Markers
Influences	Uprock – Roboting – Boogaloo
Attributes	Crews – Freestyle – Battles
Cultural Origins
Turntables – Funk – African Americans – Puerto Rican Americans – Social dancing/Party dancing

Hip-hop dance refers to street dance styles primarily performed to hip-hop music or that have evolved as part of hip-hop culture. It includes a wide range of styles primarily breaking, locking, and popping which were created in the 1970s and made popular by dance crews in the United States. The television show Soul Train and the 1980s films Breakin', Beat Street, and Wild Style showcased these crews and dance styles in their early stages; therefore, giving hip-hop mainstream exposure. The dance industry responded with a commercial, studio-based version of hip-hop—sometimes called "new style"—and a hip-hop influenced style of jazz dance called "jazz-funk". Classically trained dancers developed these studio styles in order to choreograph from the hip-hop dances that were performed on the street. Because of this development, hip-hop dance is practiced in both dance studios and outdoor spaces.

The commercialization of hip-hop dance continued into the 1990s and 2000s with the production of several television shows and movies such as The Grind, Planet B-Boy, Rize, StreetDance 3D, America's Best Dance Crew, Saigon Electric, the Step Up film series, and The LXD, a web series. Though the dance is established in entertainment, including mild representation in theater, it maintains a strong presence in urban neighborhoods which has led to the creation of street dance derivatives Memphis jookin, turfing, jerkin', and krumping.