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Locking is a whole subculture of dance art.
This is one of the most positive funky dance styles.
It is distinguished by a comic and comic manner of performance, pantomime and mimicry play an important role in it.
Locking is full of emotions, dynamic and clear movements.
The basis of the whole dance is the locking positions of locks, from these movements the name of the style was formed Locking from the word lock “Lock”.
The Locking style is also called Campbellocking, because the history of the creation of this form of dance art comes from a man named Don Campbell.
He was born in 50 years in the USA, in the state of Missouri, his childhood and most of his life was spent in Los Angeles.
Since childhood, Don was considered a little eccentric.
He was a very curious and creative kid.
He constantly carried paper and pencil with him, observed and made constant sketches of nature, people, events.
He did not leave his hobby even when he was already quite an adult.
On the contrary, he even earned it by sketching portraits of people in a Los Angeles cafe.
There he also watched the dancing children, dreaming of learning to dance himself, and even better to discover his own dance style.
Knowing this desire, Don's friends helped him master movements from different styles, taught him to dance.
And on one of the beautiful evenings, a grateful Campbell decided to demonstrate to everyone what he had learned.
It happened at a student disco.
He went out into the circle and began to reproduce all the movements in a row from all the styles that he remembered If he forgot which movement was following the other, he stopped, froze, remembered – and continued on.
It was then that the best dancer of the college approached him and called Don "Campbell lock", which means "lock", "stopper"
Don was not at all confused by this, on the contrary, he was encouraged, and he continued to dance in the same manner.
Even then, he decided that all the shortcomings of his dance should be turned into its advantages, make it a style.
So comic and ridiculous movements became the basic elements of locking.
His main idea was a huge positive, constant improvisation, comic costumes, funny poses, and most importantly these recognizable stops "castles", from which, in fact, the development of this dance art began.
It was in the early 70s of the last century.
Don constantly developed his art, regularly participating in dance competitions, TV shows, festivals, shows.
Over time, he gained many followers and students, thanks to whom locking became widely known to a very wide public.
In the process of his creative growth, Don Campbell organized several of his creative groups, with which he performed and toured the country.
One of them is "The Lockers", which united the best improvisers of this genre, and became the most dynamic, vibrant, and influential group in the history of modern dance.
As the years passed, the popularity of locking in America increased and then faded, the group was periodically updated, generations changed, the composition of the participants changed, but it was thanks to its new generation of participants that the whole world learned about locking as a dance phenomenon.
In the 80s, Japan learned about locking, in the 90s 2000, the disease called "locking" covered France, followed by the whole of Europe, Korea and the CIS countries.
Locking has become not just a dance, but a lifestyle, a way of moving, talking.
Lokers have their own special style of clothing – berets, trousers with suspenders, bright ties, striped socks, white gloves.
Distinctive features of locking: various chips with throwing hands, sharp movements, various jumps, loops with hands, chips with swinging legs and arms, etc.
The main movements of locking, which are its base:
Lock – "lock", - the main movement of the dance; Pace – a certain, characteristic for locking, the addition of the hands in the form of binoculars; Point the locker points at someone with a finger; Wrist roll twisting movements up and down with the wrists.
There are many more basic locking movements, for example, such as: Double lock; Stop and go; Scooby doo; Skeeter Rabbit; Wich a way; Funky chicken; The Watergate; Funky Broadway; Scoo box.
The dancer, although an adherent of improvisation, is still always based on basic movements.
The skill of a dancer is primarily determined by the quality of the performance of the basic elements.
The elements invented for themselves by the dancer are called "style", but the dancer must perform "style" only in symbiosis with the basic movements.
These are the rules.
The locker must be able to assemble a large structure called "dance"from a variety of small details (basic movements).
The more interesting and harmonious this design is, the more professional the dancer is.
The skill of the locker is also determined by the ability to improvise to any music playing at any given moment, and the ability to quickly become a "lock" if the music accidentally stops.
The most important thing in locking is the mood.
After all, this dance is an absolute positive, it is an explosive energy, it is a desire to live and enjoy all the manifestations of life.
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