This style, in Great Britain also-called "Body - Popping", is in its way a very unusual and suggestive dance style. As all kinds of dance, Electric Boogie also had had a period of development before it grew into its current shape. The principles we teach in our course are the following:

In a word-to-word interpretation, "pop" means to hit, to bang, to whip.Pop stands for those very rhythmic, cut movements of different body parts, performed by stretching and holding the contracted muscles. For instance, pop is sharp jutting out of the elbow, or lifting the shoulder while the rest of the body stays motionless.

 

The Wave - this principle embodies the wavy movement of the limbs and the whole body.It creates the illusion of some invisible force moving across our body - say it starts in the palm, and through the hand and the arm it wanders on to your body and ends in the sole.Unlike other dance principles this is a smooth, fluid motion.The Wave provides a contrast to energetic and rhythmic elements.This element also employs pop movements, but these are smoothly "travelling" across the body.

 

This element is used in the style called "The Robot" and is fundamental to Electric Boogie.It leaves the impression that the individual parts of the body are essentially mechanical, machinelike.This movement begins and ends with a shake, a shudder and is followed by tension in the individual muscles in the body.

 

This element is best described if we compare it to a "puppet".It stands for cut swaying movements, which give the impression that the dancer is a puppet controlled by another person.

 

In Great Britain the term "Robotics" is also used very often.Both refer to shifting ones body from one position to another at the same speed, ending by a tick or a snap reminding us of a machine.Usually only one distinct part of the body is moving at a time, which implies that the dancer is under the control of some programme which forces him to perform certain acts systematically.

 

Can you recall those strange depictions of human figures on the walls of the pyramids and temples of Egypt? If you can, you will also be able to visualise what this element of Electric Boogie looks like.Characteristic of this movement is the shoulder and the forearm forming a right angle and the palm turned either towards or away from the body.The hands may thus rotate round the elbow upward or downward and so on.

 

Float or glide is an illusion created by the movement of legs and is a steady-state movement across the dance area.Most classic in this field is "Moonwalk" (in the past also called "The Back Float")

 

This element creates the illusion of ones movements being a recording showed in slow motion.