What exactly is Body Popping, and who started this form of dance?

zbeckabee

Popping is a funk dance and street dance style based on the technique of quickly contracting and relaxing muscles to cause a jerk in the dancer's body, referred to as a pop or a hit. This is done continuously to the rhythm of a song in combination with various movements and poses. A popping dancer is commonly referred to as a popper. It is generally believed that the dance evolved in Fresno, California in the 1970s, partly inspired by locking. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popping Dec 27 07, 2:55 PM

BRY2K

Popping was created by street dance crew ñElectric Boogaloo. During breaking era, b-boys started to put popping and locking into their dance. http://www.msu.edu/~okumurak/styles/pop.html Popping is also used as an umbrella term for a group of closely related illusionary dance styles and techniques that are often integrated with popping to create a more varied performance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popping Dec 27 07, 2:58 PM