Popping and Locking with Tea Buggz:
This class covers the fundamentals of major styles such as tutting, robot, snaking, Boogaloo, locking and animation. This class is suitable for students of all levels of experience but is geared towards beginners and intermediate levels. The class consists of drills, choreography and some history
Torrence Griffin, also known as Tea-Buggz, has
been dancing hip hop for 34 years. He is
proficient in popping, waving, ticking, king tutting, dancing the
styles of animation and
mannequin.
He began dancing in 1981 on the South Side of
Chicago with the original Electric Funkateers,
which quickly became one of the premier pop-locking dance groups in
the city. In his 34 years of
dancing, he has worked with the likes of Genuine, Queen Latifah,
Sinbad, Kurtis Blow, and
many others which led to his travelling extensively throughout the
U.S. other parts of the world.
In 1984, Torrence won the Chicago Hip Hop Pioneer Award which
acknowledged all of his
years of hard work and dedication in the Chicago hip hop
scene.
As a teacher, for the past 30 years, Torrence has
taught at Columbia College Chicago, the
Chicago Public Schools, Latin Street Dance Studio, and Christ
University Temple, in addition to
teaching master classes at various dance studios throughout the
city.
Recently, he restarted his dance group Electric
Funkateers to help promote the younger
generation of street dancers. He has been an influential popping
teacher in Chicago and has seen many of his students go on to win
numerous battles in this city and elsewhere.
Torrence strengths as a teacher are his ability to break down
complex movements into smaller,
more digestible parts and he prioritizes giving individual
attention in his fitness and street dance
classes
See an interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=z8w8kOoSo2c
Single Drop-in: $18