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About Breaking

The street dance style evolved as part of the hip hop movement in New York City during the early 1970s. Breakdancing is one of the four elements of hip hop, the others being MCing, DJing, and graffiti. Breakdancing includes many different styles as well as aerobic movements similar to those seen in martial arts (especially Capoeira) and also gymnastics. Breaking moves include Toprock, Uprock, Downrock, and Freezing, popping, locking….

Breaking History

Some say that breakdancing began as a method for rival gangs to battle one another safely. The winning side was determined by the dancers who could outperform the other gang.
It was through the performances of funk legend James Brown and the rapid-growth of dance teams, like the Rock Steady Crew of New York City, that breaking evolved into a pop-culture phenomenon, receiving massive media attention.

Music is a staple ingredient for breakdancing. The original songs that popularized the dance form borrow significantly from progressive genres of jazz, soul, funk, disco, and R&B. The most common feature of breakdance music exists in breaks, or compilations formed from samples taken from different songs.

For most breakers, fashion is a defining aspect of identity. Breakdancers of the 1980s typically sported flat-soled Adidas, Puma, or Fila shoes with thick, elaborately patterned laces, hooded nylon jackets and boombox. Now the style has extended and evolved.

There is some debate in whether breakdance can be considered a folk dance. Street dances are living and evolving dance forms, while folk dances are to a significant degree bound by tradition, which due to its long history and many elements which make it, could be argued of breaking. Breakdancing was and still is a social dance but, because of media and television, its has become more mainstream.

In the 1980s, breakdancing made its way from the suburbs to the rest of the world as a new cultural phenomenon. Musicians such as Michael Jackson popularized the breakdancing style in music videos. Movies such as Flashdance, Wild Style, Beat Street, Breakin' and Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo all contributed to breakdancing's growing appeal. Today, many B-boys and former breakers are disappointed by the media hype that watered the dance down into money and overfocus on power moves. Finally though, Breaking was given its proper respect in the critically acclaimed feature documentary film; The Freshest Kids - a history of the b-boy. The film captured the true essence of the culture and also accurately traced the origin and evolution of the dance and its place within the Hip Hop movement.