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Initially Boogaloo is a genre of latinas. In the beginning 1960х, Boogaloo is an improvisation of legs and steps, has appeared in New York, among Cuban and Puerto-Rico teenagers, in areas of the Spanish slums in Harlem (New York of City). Style became mixture Afro-American R ` n ` B, some movements of a rock-and-roll (from here and the name of characteristic circular movement by legs - a beater), soul has gone, mambo and so-called a dream montuno (son montuno) the-improvised movements of a body with frequent breaths and exhalations. Earlier, Boogaloo it was danced with base sequence of 12 steps (twelve steps), serially replacing each other and repeating through the certain time intervals which has been accelerated in sequence with thirty steps later.
Gradually Boogaloo or Bug Style, dancers in streets, and gradually start to dance, style passes from a ghetto to the central streets of big cities of East Coast (!). There are the dancers executing not so simply variations on latin themes, and directly this style, the first creaters.
Boogaloo it is considered very clear at an initial grade level. It also name « Loose to break » - « ready to be pulled out on freedom ». It is very important, that such characteristic in the direct image influences style of execution of dance. Boogaloo is on the one hand quiet and measured dance, and with another - in a manner of execution such latent force, desire to be pulled out for limits of movements should be felt. Dancer Bugalu always should leave what that sensation of incompleteness from the dance, an innuendo.
Danced Boogaloo under funk, with the moderate rhythm, not too dynamical, but it is obligatory with a unpredictable melody. The rhythm as a rule was two-bit (strong impact-on beat and weak - off beat).
Boogaloo Sam did not base Boogaloo! He has simply allocated him as street substyle latinas and has made his more focused on culture of funk the Western Coast. Sam has based style not Boogaloo, and Electric Boogaloo. The base (softness of movements, improvisation by foot and) has remained steps in Electrician Bugalu from primary style. Sam for the first time the beginnings actively to use the top part of a body, to change depending on turn of a hip of a plane. In the beginning 80х he comes to that. That it is necessary to lower is more often a head and to work with breath. The accent in dance for some time is transferred with a legs on a thorax. Now, all goes returning to bases and the main emphasis is done on a hip though work as a thorax is very important.
БBoogaloo it is considered so-called "fluid" style. In an ideal, the dancer should create illusion of absolutely indissoluble "fluid" transition from one part of a body to another. At that it is very important to involve all parts of a body.
Initially walkouts, "exits" were doneon a stage (and in general in space) is precise on 4 corners! This reception basically till now is often applied and it is considered necessary knowledge of base - « classics Boogaloo ». Now the quantity of the made corners does not play value. Them can be as much as necessary, they can not repeat. It is necessary to use « return corners », that is mirror reflection in the opposite side just the made corner or an output (the return walkouts).
As the major movements are considered:
- Rolls of the hips
- Rolls of the knees
- Walkouts
Distinctive attribute Boogaloo is that. That it very much « wide dance ». To dance it is necessary to try great, borrowing it is as much as possible place and not limiting itself a finding on one point. That make dance Boogaloo - it is necessary to move, constantly to move from a place on places in space. To create as though « effect of extension » spaces, by illusion of " extension of the body » (more often a little, or the bottom part of a body lags behind from top, or on the contrary).
In Boogaloo there are no others substyles, it on what does not share and is not classified in any way. The only thing about what it is possible to speak, it about informal division Boogaloo into Western and East manner of execution (it is a question of opposite coasts USA).

So-called tricks (chesspieces) are different intricate and at times seeming strange movements by legs, sometimes absolutely illogical from the point of view of dance. In it also there is a charm. In opinion Boogaloo Sam - the present chesspiece only then a chesspiece when it is completely improvised and made unexpectedly even for the dancer