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A krumper dancing in Australia. Krumping is a global culture that evolved through African-American street dancing popularized in the United States during the early 2000s, characterized by free, expressive, exaggerated, and highly energetic movement. [1] The people who originated krumping saw the dance as a means for them to escape gang life. [2]
After this event, Tommy the Clown led the way in the stirring dance movement called "Clowning". [2] [3] [4] He also developed this form of dance in response to the 1992 Los Angeles riots. [5] Tommy's performances incorporated the current music and dancing of the time, and he encouraged the children to get up and dance with him.
Miss Prissy (born Marquisa Gardner) is an American dancer known for the krumping style. [1] She has been called The Queen of Krump. [2] She was one of the dancers featured in the 2005 film Rize, a documentary about krump dancing and clowning. She also starred in the 2005 music video for Madonna's Hung Up which
Like clowning, krumping is characterized by free, expressive exaggerated, and highly energetic movement. [5] The youths who started krumping, known as Lil C' and Miss Prissy, saw the dance as a way for them to escape gang life and "to release anger, aggression and frustration positively, in a non-violent way."
Russell Ferguson is an American Krump dancer from Boston, Massachusetts. He won So You Think You Can Dance season 6, making him the first Krumper to win the title. [1] Russell is a graduate of the Boston Arts Academy and attended the University of the Arts in Philadelphia as a dance major.
The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers, commonly called The LXD, is an American web series that premiered on Hulu.The series follows two groups of rival dancers: the Alliance of the Dark, who are the villains, and the Legion of Extraordinary Dancers, the heroes, who discover they have superpowers referred to as "the Ra" through their dance abilities.
What should have been a routine law enforcement safety video has topped 1.2 million views on Facebook after a Florida’s sheriff’s office decided to retool Michael Jackson’s classic ...
In 2007, Lil' C was cast in the David Michalek traveling exhibit Slow Dancing, "a series of 43 larger-than-life, hyper-slow-motion video portraits of dancers and choreographers from around the world, displayed on multiple screens. Each [dancer]'s movement (approximately 5 seconds long) was shot on a specially constructed set using a high-speed ...