Editing Popping (section)

== Variations ==
[[File:Moonwalk in Madrid.jpg|thumb|right|250px|A street dancer doing the [[moonwalk (dance)|backslide]] or ''"moonwalk"'', a common move in the [[floating (dance)|floating]] style often seen combined with popping]]

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; Animation
: A style and a technique where the dancer imitates [[film]] characters being animated by [[stop motion]]. The technique of moving rigidly and jerky by tensing muscles and using techniques similar to [[strobing (dance)|strobing]] and the [[robot (dance)|robot]] makes it appear as if the dancer has been animated frame by frame. [[Walt Disney]] was the first to use this term, referring to his character Steam Boat Willie’s motions as "the animation dance" in 1929. This style was heavily inspired by the [[dynamation]] films created by [[Ray Harryhausen]], such as ''[[The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad]]'' (1958).<ref name="wiggles"/>

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; Boogaloo
: Boogaloo or "bug'n" is an older umbrella name of [[Boogaloo (funk dance)|funk dances]] originating in Oakland, California.<ref name="Guzman-Sanchez, T. 2012"/> It can be described as a free-form dance style with loose movements trying to give the impression of a body lacking bones, partly inspired by [[animation|animated movies]] and [[cartoon]]s. It utilizes circular rolls of various body parts, such as the hips, chest, shoulders, knees and head; this technique is also referred to as "wormin" and isolates sections of the body toward funk rhythms, especially sectioning through separating the rib cage from the hip. "Wormin" was innovated by Jerry Rentie of One Plus One.,<ref>Guzman-Sanchez, T. "The Oakland Funk Boogaloo Generation". Underground Dance Masters: Final History of a Forgotten Era. Praeger, 2012, p. 18</ref> and the rolling of the chest or "wiggling" was innovated by Donald "Duck" Mathews.<ref>Hill, B. & Oakland Conservatory (2014) "Oakland Boogaloo: An Intro to Basic Movements with Chuck Powell" on</ref> It also makes heavy use of angles and various steps and transitions to get from one spot to the next.

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; Tutting/King Tut
: Inspired by the [[art of Ancient Egypt]] (the name derived from the Egyptian pharaoh [[Tutankhamun]], colloquially known as "King Tut"), tutting exploits the body's ability to create geometric positions (such as boxes) and movements, predominantly with the use of [[right angle]]s. It generally focuses on the arms and hands, and includes sub-styles such as [[finger tutting]].<ref>The Book of Dance 2012 – Page 129 1409322378 "Tutting was originally inspired by Egyptian hieroglyphics – the name is an abbreviation for the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun. A form of popping, tutting is all about creating right angles using the arms ..."</ref>