Impact
Hip-hop novelty and fad dances are popularized dance moves rather than dance styles that are often performed at parties.
Many of these fad dances were created by musical artists such as MC Hammer, who created the Hammer dance, and Digital Underground, who created the Humpty dance.
The Hammer dance and the Humpty dance were nationally known dance moves that became wildly popular and then faded as the song they were associated with lost popularity.
Other examples include Harlem shake, Soulja boy, Aunt Jackie, the Shoulder Lean, and the snap dance.
Tecktonik is a style of dance combining vogue, breaking (toprock), and popping (waving) that started at the Metropolis nightclubs in Paris, France.
Like hip-hop dance, it is associated with urban youth and tecktonik dancers do engage in battles both on the street and in the clubs but due to its music and club origins, this style is more appropriate under the house dance category.
Aside from the party scene, hip-hop dance has established itself on the Internet through social networking.
Websites such as DanceJam and West Coast Poppin were created specifically for dancers to create profiles and interact.
West Coast Poppin is focused toward poppers and lockers while DanceJam is inclusive of all hip-hop dance styles.
Dance Jam was founded by Geoffrey Arone, Anthony Young, and MC Hammer in 2008.
Their website hosts online dance battles and posts online tutorials on how to do popular hip-hop dance moves.
The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers is a web series that portrays hip-hop dancers as super heroes.
Each character has a specific dance talent ranging from krumping, tutting, breaking, boogaloo, locking, popping, tricking, and ballet.
Advertising Age gave the series good reviews stating "...each episode of 'LXD' packs a wealth of narrative sophistication into its eight or nine minutes.
Combine this with the theater-worthy production values and a cast that exerts itself to an ungodly extent, and the end result is -- pun time! -- extraordinary."
The series premiered July 7, 2010 on Hulu.