Break Dancing

Break Dancing

Most people have heard of break dancing and have been amazed and

mystified by the extraordinary movement, but what is it really and

where did originate from? Many people have influenced the history of

break dancing and will continue to. From being a recreational sport it

has become competitive and addictive to hundreds of people all around

the world as some of the greats of the business like Kujo to the new

learners experiment and progress further the sport will never die out.

Break dancing was created in the 1980s where it was powered by the

media for a couple of years until it crashed out of the lime light.

But it continued and became one of the four major parts of the hip hop

scene joining up with MC (master of ceremony), DJ (disk jockey), and

the graffiti artists. The name Hip Hop was first used in the early 80s

by Afrika Bamatta; firstly it was used by MC’s as random phrase.

Originally named b-boying it first started off in the Bronx located in

the New York, where local gangs would ‘battle’ each other as part as

meditation and to set locations for rumbles. It was mainly jumping

around with stabbing and kicking motions that were aimed at the other

gang to intimidate them. The main idea was that they would take it in

turns the first person would have to set something that the other gang

would have to match or beat so therefore which ever gang could not

match what the last gang member did, would automatically lose.

The best moves were spontaneous that had never been seen before, the

more original they were the better and more interesting the battle

would become. Gangs usually used this instead of violence but in t...

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Seattle youth and many performances were staged at the Langston Hughes

Cultural Arts Center. Furthermore, Fever-One was one of three

representatives selected to lecture and demonstrate in the first B-Boy

instructional video entitled B-Boy foundations. Fever one has

continuously been lecturing at many major Universities including

Princeton, Yale and Rutgers.

He has been featured in several music videos like DJ Honda, LFO and

Tony Touch and judged battles for Rock Steady Crew and Zulu Nation

anniversaries.

In conclusion the history of break dancing is very complex it all

originated in the one central area of New York and has managed to grow

and spread all over the world. No one knows where the future of break

dancing will lead but it will never die out and will continue to amaze

and stun people everyday.