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"Breakdancing may have died, but the b-boy, one of four original elements of hip hop (also included: the MC, the DJ, and the graffiti artist) lives on. To those who knew it before it was tagged with the name breakdancing, to those still involved in the scene that they will always know as b-boying, the tradition is alive and, well, spinning." [22]
Ken Swift has several film credits to his name, including Style Wars, the first hip hop documentary, and the first hip hop major motion picture, Wild Style. His most famous movie was 1983's hit Flashdance , where his two-minute dance with several members of the Rock Steady Crew launched the hip hop scene into international attention.
According to hip-hop activist Afrika Bambaataa [1] and b-boy Richard "Crazy Legs" Colón, [2] the purest hip-hop dance style, breaking (commonly called "breakdancing"), began in the early 1970s as elaborations on how James Brown danced to his song "Get on the Good Foot". [3] People mimicked these moves in their living rooms, in hallways, and at ...
At parties in the Bronx in the 1970s, dancers would hit the floor during the instrumental interludes, or the break, on records, giving breaking, one of the core pillars of hip-hop, its name. Read ...
Breakdancing began on the streets of New York in the 1970s. Now the artform and sport, known competitively as breaking, is in the Olympics — and its athletes are ready to show off their moves.
Breakin' (also known as Breakdance in the United Kingdom and Break Street '84 in other regions [4]) is a 1984 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.
When hip-hop-obsessed American soldiers showed their Korean counterparts how to land headspins and windmills at US military bases in the 1980s, they probably didn’t anticipate breakdancing’s ...
The World B-Boy Series is the world's first B-Boying competition connecting eight different events around the world. Since 2014, the 8 solo B-Boy champions of these international events will meet in a new masters event called Undisputed and battle to establish who is the supreme champion, who is "Undisputed".