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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.
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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]
Body Rock is a 1984 American dance drama film directed by Marcelo Epstein, and written by Desmond Nakano and Kimberly Lynn White. It stars Lorenzo Lamas as a young man "from the streets" with a talent for break-dancing, and co-stars Vicki Frederick, Cameron Dye, Michelle Nicastro and Ray Sharkey.
Beat Street is a 1984 American dance drama film featuring New York City hip hop culture of the early 1980s. Set in the South Bronx, the film follows the lives of a pair of brothers and their group of friends, all of whom are devoted to various elements of early hip hop culture, including breakdancing, DJing and graffiti.
B-boying or Breaking, also called Breakdancing, is a style of street dance that originated among African-American and Puerto Rican youths in New York City during the early 1970s. The dance spread worldwide due to popularity in the media, especially in regions such as South Korea, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Russia, and Japan.
For years, the only exposure many people have had to the world of break dancing is movies like "Breakin'," "Beat Street," "You Got Served" and every single "Step Up" film ever released. Philip ...
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.