Locking
Locking or Campbellocking is a dance art form with an improvisational move called the lock. It was created by Don Campbell and put to a specific rhythm and style in the nightclubs of Los Angeles in the early 1970s.
This dance and subculture quickly caught on and was soon the rage of a new television dance show called Soul Train. Individual dancers displayed quick locking and pointing movements along with hand slaps and splits.
This class is about learning the culture of the style and the history behind the movements. We will also cover drills and learn the proper technique of the locking vocabs. The goal is to get our students to holistically learn locking and to be able to create and express the style freely through their own freestyle.