Krumping is a type of street dance popularized in America characterized by free, expressive, exaggerated, and highly energetic moves involving the arms, head, legs, chest, and feet. The youths who started krumping saw the dance as a way for them to escape gang life and “to release anger, aggression and frustration positively, in a non-violent way. Krumping has become a major part of hip hop dance.
Style
Krumping originated in Los Angeles, CA, during the 1990s. There are four primary moves: wobbles, arm swings, chest pops, and stomps. Unlike other hip-hop dances krumping is rarely choreographed; it is almost entirely freestyle (improvisational) and is danced most frequently in battles or sessions rather than on a stage. Krumping is different stylistically from other hip-hop dance styles such as b-boying and turfing. Krumping is very aggressive and is danced upright to upbeat and fast-paced music, where as b-boying is more acrobatic and is danced on the floor to breakbeats. Krumping doesn’t use mime techniques. It is more freestyle. Thematically, all these dance styles share common ground including their street origins, their freestyle nature, and the use of battling. These commonalities bring them together under the umbrella of hip hop dance
Krump even has its own language, with words such as:
- Battle: when competitors face-off in a direct dance competition where the use of arm swings and chest movements known as flares and bucks are extremely common.
- Session: when a group of krump dancers form a circle, or cipher in hip-hop context, and one-by-one go into the middle and freestyle.
- Buck: an expression used by krumpers to describe dancing that is both difficult to execute and impressive/striking.
- Labbin’: when krump dancers buck-up and get buck to a beat in a means to create new moves and perhaps even adapt their style.
- Get Amped: The next level of intensity. Movements should be off the hook, and off the walls.
- Beasty: aggressive and beastlike
- Hipolymer: copy cats who steal moves
- Goofy: animated and comedic krump
- New Bootie: Some one new to Krump
- Kill off: a combination of moves that end a battle, like the grand finale.
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