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Breakin' (also known as Breakdance in the United Kingdom and Break Street '84 in other regions [4]) is a 1983 American breakdancing-themed musical film directed by Joel Silberg and written by Charles Parker and Allen DeBevoise based on a story by Parker, DeBevoise and Gerald Scaife.
Michael "Boogaloo Shrimp" Chambers (born November 13, 1967) is an American dancer and actor, known for his role as "Turbo" in the 1984 film Breakin' and its sequel, Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo, in which he is credited as "Boogaloo Shrimp".
In May 1984, Joel Silberg's breakdancing-themed musical film Breakin' opened in cinemas, where Quiñones was cast as a lead playing Ozone. [9] The film opened at number one in the box office, earning $6,047,686. [10] and eventually grossed $38,682,707 in the domestic box office, [11] making it the eighteenth highest-grossing film of 1984. [12]
Adolfo “Shabba Doo” Quiñones, the dancer-actor who rose to fame starring in “Breakin'” and its sequel “Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo,” died Wednesday. He was 65. No cause of death ...
The music video features footage from the film Breakin', as well as numerous street break dancing performances. Jean-Claude Van Damme , who was an extra in the film, can be seen dancing in the background at one point.
Roy Rochlin/Getty Images The highly anticipated Olympic debut of breakdancing has been decades in the making. Before the sport finally unveils itself at the 2024 Paris Olympics on Friday, August 9 ...
Breakdancing would come into the mainstream in the 1980s in movies such as Beat Street and Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo before fading away by the 1990s, then making a comeback in the 2000s. ...
The term 'Break dancing' has to be thrown out of the dance vocabulary." [24] Hip-Hop Dance Conservatory "Breaking or b-boying is generally misconstrued or incorrectly termed as 'breakdancing'. Breakdancing is a term spawned from the loins of the media's philistinism, sciolism, and naïveté at that time.