The Electric Boogaloos are a

street dance Street dance is an umbrella term for a large number of social dance styles such as: breakdancing, popping, locking, house dance, waacking etc. Social dance styles have many accompanying steps and foundations, created organically from a culture, ...

crew responsible for the spread of

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and electric boogaloo. The name "

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" came from a song called "

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" by

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, which was also adapted as a

street dance done from Oakland, CA. They were founded by Boogaloo Sam in

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in 1977. Their original name was the Electric Boogaloo Lockers but "Lockers" was dropped the following year. On January 25, 2012, The Electric Boogaloos were honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 13th anniversary show of The Carnival: Choreographer's Ball, for their role in popularizing dance styles such as

and

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, presented by

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and dancer

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Members

Boogaloo Sam, also known as Sam Solomon grew up in

. He was inspired to innovate a new dance style after learning from the Bay City Boogaloos and meeting Tick'n Will and Darnell McDowell - the Ace Tre Lockers - they danced a form of

from Oakland.Guzman-Sanchez, T. (2012) "Oakland Funk Boogaloo to Popping". Underground Dance Masters: Final History of a Forgotten Era. Praeger; Sam also watched dancers locking on the television. He innovated popping and the EB Boogaloo dance style from Fresno. Popin’ Pete, Boogaloo Sam's little brother, practiced his dance moves by watching

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and doing the robot. Poppin' Pete was taught how to pop styles by his older brother Boogaloo Sam. He watched his brother pop styles and wanted to learn too. The original members of the first group from long beach California were: Boogaloo Sam, Popin Pete, Robot Dane, Puppet Boozer, Creeping Sidney and Scarecrow Scalley. " Skeeter Rabbit of the EBs"who took his dance name from an early original Locker and Robot dancer James @ "Skeeter Rabbit" Higgins, Stephan grew up in Los Angeles, and originally was followed in his name sakes tradition as a locker until his cousins, Boogaloo Sam and Popin’ Pete introduced him to popping.

Suga Pop Steve da Silva', better known as Suga Pop, is an American "street dance" practitioner and choreographer based in the United States. He is known for his work in "popping" and "locking", styles of dance collectively grouped under the umbrella term "fu ...

was determined to become part of the Electric Boogaloos after he saw them perform on ''

''. Later, he moved to Los Angeles where he met Popin’ Pete and Skeeter Rabbit and joined the Electric Boogaloos in 1979. He is currently a music producer.

Mr. Wiggles Steffan "Mr. Wiggles" Clemente is a street dancer, noted for his popping skills. He is a member of the Rock Steady Crew, The Electric Boogaloos, Tribal Click, Zulu Nation, and TC5, also known as The Cool Five or The Crazy Five. Wiggles has bee ...

is the most recent addition to the Electric Boogaloos, growing up from

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he is also a member of the

Rock Steady Crew Rock Steady Crew is an American breaking and hip hop group which has become a franchise name for multiple groups in other locations. The group's 1983 international hit song " (Hey You) The Rock Steady Crew" (from the group's first studio album ...

References

External links

* http://www.lockerlegends.net
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