Popping the Electric Boogaloos

A semifinal match of the open age group takes place between two Korean dancers, Dokyun and Eun. A report on China's street dance sector commissioned by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and carried out by the School of Cultural Industries Management at the Communication University of China and the China Hip-Hop Union Committee published in January 2023, shows that CHUC has connected nearly 3 million street dancers and almost 10,000 training institutions. Li says that being qualified as an EB family member is a huge encouragement and he will work harder on teaching street dance. Chen Mingtao, a street dance teacher with 22 years of teaching experience and a member of the dancers association of Jiangxi province, believes that the event — especially the lecture by Popin Pete on the developing process of popping and EB style — will help street dance learners to "better understand dancing and the style, not just know what to do but why". While popping reveals the character of the dance, meaning that the dancers' muscles jump and pop, Boogaloo, originally an African-American dance style, was developed by Boogaloo Sam as a way of doing body movements.