Electric boogaloo is a style of funk dance

Funk dance

Funk styles refers to a group of street dance styles that originated in California in the 1970s during the funk era. These mainly include locking, popping, and electric boogaloo. Though many of these specific dance styles have today been incorporated into the hip hop culture and are often seen...

 and hip hop dance

Hip hop dance

Hip-hop dance refers to dance styles primarily performed to hip-hop music or that have evolved as part of hip-hop culture. It includes a wide range of styles notably breaking, locking, and popping which were created in the 1970s by African Americans and made popular by breaking, locking, and...

 closely related to popping

Popping

Popping is a street dance and one of the original funk styles that came from California during the 1960s-70s. It is based on the technique of quickly contracting and relaxing muscles to cause a jerk in the dancer's body, referred to as a pop or a hit...

. It became the signature style of the dance group started in the 1970s, the Electric Boogaloos

Electric Boogaloos

The Electric Boogaloos are a street dance crew responsible for the spread of popping and electric boogaloo. They were founded by Boogaloo Sam in Fresno, California in 1977. Their original name was the Electric Boogaloo Lockers but "Lockers" was dropped the following year....

. Along with electric boogaloo they also popularized popping and many of its related styles.

It is characterized as a fluid leg-oriented style danced to funk

Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid-late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground...

 music, utilizing rolls of the hips, knees, legs, and head, which was later combined with popping.

Today, boogaloo is often used as a synonym for the electric boogaloo, except in the Bay Area where boogaloo refers to an Oakland creation of street dance that remains to this day.

Moves

Crazy legs

A footwalk that was created by Poppin Pete. He invented crazy legs by watching a boy called Crazy Legs dancing and changed what he saw into a Popping move.

Fresno

Basic movement between body, arm, and foot. It was created by Boogaloo Sam.

A move, which defines all that is essential in Popping (also used in electric boogaloo). The Fresno can be performed in various ways as only the following requirements exist. In a fresno, the dancer moves side-to-side doing a hit

Popping (dance)

Popping is a street dance and one of the original funk styles that came from California during the 1960s-70s. It is based on the technique of quickly contracting and relaxing muscles to cause a jerk in the dancer's body, referred to as a pop or a hit...

 on each turn with the leg and arm of the side the dancer has moved to.

Neck-o-flex

The neck twix between body and the neck.

Old man

A type of boogaloo style was created by Boogaloo Sam. Boogaloo Sam invented this move by watching an old man walking across the street.

Twist-o-flex

A technique where, as in the mannequin

Robot (dance)

The robot is an illusionary street dance style – often confused with popping – that attempts to imitate a dancing robot or mannequin...

, the dancer creates the impression of unnatural body joints by moving and twisting various parts in sequence. Non-twisting parts should remain absolutely still. The effect resembles a Rubik's Cube

Rubik's Cube

Rubik's Cube is a 3-D mechanical puzzle invented in 1974 by Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Ernő Rubik.Originally called the "Magic Cube", the puzzle was licensed by Rubik to be sold by Ideal Toy Corp. in 1980 and won the German Game of the Year special award for Best Puzzle that...

moving, or somewhat a clay figure being modeled. It can be further refined by using hands to "push" or "pull" the body parts around.

Walk-out

A footwalk that took you from point A to point B. It is very common in popping.