Electric boogaloo (dance)


Electric boogaloo is a dance style closely related to earlier Boogaloo street dance performed in Oakland and popping; it combines modern popping techniques and earlier boogaloo forms It became the signature style of the dance group started in mid-1970s, the Electric Boogaloos. Along with electric boogaloo they also popularized popping and many of its related styles.
It is characterized as a fluid leg-oriented style danced to funk music, utilizing rolls of the hips, knees, legs, and head, which was later combined with popping.

Moves

;Creepin
;Crazy legs
;The Slot
Basic movement between body, arm, and foot. Previously referred to earlier Boogaloo dancers in Oakland as "The Slot", it was a side to side movement ending in a hard pose or a "hit" to help keep dancers in rhythm or "put him in the slot", to imitate a pinball slot machine.
;Neck-o-flex
;Old man
;Twist-o-flex
;Walk-out