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Dance critic Sally Banes in an April 1981 piece on the form in the Village Voice quotes Crazy Legs listing the best dancers extant and documents his accidental invention of the "W" move, in which the dancer sits with his legs double-backed behind him. [2] The next month saw The New York Times cover a three-day conference on "Bronx folk culture".
Flashdance is a 1983 American romantic drama dance film directed by Adrian Lyne and starring Jennifer Beals as a passionate young dancer, Alex Owens, who aspires to become a professional ballerina, alongside Michael Nouri, who plays her boyfriend and the owner of the steel mill where she works by day in Pittsburgh.
Kenneth James Gabbert (born August 13, 1966), better known by his stage name Ken Swift, is a second generation b-boy, or breakdancer.He was a longtime member and key figure in the Rock Steady Crew, and its former Vice President.
Adrian Lyne hadn’t watched Flashdance in ages. As he admits, it has been at least 15 years since he screened the unlikely 1983 hit film starring Jennifer Beals as a Pittsburgh steelworker who ...
Rock Steady Crew is an American breaking and hip hop group which has become a franchise for multiple groups in other locations. The group's 1983 international hit song "(Hey You) The Rock Steady Crew" (from the group's first studio album Ready for Battle) peaked at No. 6 on the UK Singles Chart, [110] and reached the top 10 in many European countries.
Reflecting on his trailblazing career, Canadian icon David Cronenberg felt particular pride for the one project that got away – or, more to the point, that he pushed away with full force ...
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Prior to Black Swan, there had also been dance doubles in other films. In Flashdance (1983), Jennifer Beals ’ dancing was doubled by Marine Jahan and, at one point, the male dancer Crazy Legs for a difficult break dancing sequence.