Popping is a
street dance
Street dance is an umbrella term for a large number of social dance styles such as: breakdancing, popping, Locking (dance), locking, house dance, waacking etc. Social dance styles have many accompanying steps and foundations, created organically ...
adapted out of the earlier
Boogaloo (funk dance)
Boogaloo is a freestyle, improvisational street dance movement of soulful steps and robotic movements which make up the foundations of popping dance and turfing; boogaloo can incorporate illusions, restriction of muscles, stops, robot and/or wigg ...
cultural movement in
Oakland
Oakland is the largest city and the county seat of Alameda County, California, United States. A major West Coast of the United States, West Coast port, Oakland is the largest city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, the third ...
,
California
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. As Boogaloo spread, it would be referred to as Robottin in
Richmond, California, Strutting movements in
San Francisco
San Francisco (; Spanish language, Spanish for "Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the List of Ca ...
and
San Jose, and the Strikin dances of the
Oak Park community of
Sacramento
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which were popular through the mid-1960s to the 1970s.
[Guzman-Sanchez, T. (2012) Underground Dance Masters: Final History of a Forgotten Era. Praeger.] Popping would be eventually adapted from earlier
Boogaloo (freestyle dance)
Boogaloo is a freestyle, improvisational street dance movement of soulful steps and robotic movements which make up the foundations of popping dance and turfing; boogaloo can incorporate illusions, restriction of muscles, stops, robot and/or wigg ...
movements in