Breakdancing Wikipedia. B boying. A b boy performing outside Faneuil Hall, Boston, MA, United States. Genre. Hip hop dance. Inventor. Street dancers. Year. Early 1. 97. Origin. New York City. Breakdancing, also called breaking or b boying, is an athletic style of street dance. Mark Knights legacy already ranks him as a leading player in dance music culture Website of DJ Mark Knight. Musicdawn Collection Фанк, Соул и редкий грув Funk, Soul and Rare Grooves. Directed by Patricia Birch. With Michelle Pfeiffer, Maxwell Caulfield, Lorna Luft, Maureen Teefy. An English student at a 1960s American high school has to prove. While diverse in the amount of variation available in the dance, breakdancing mainly consists of four kinds of movement toprock, downrock, power moves, and freezes. Breakdancing is typically set to hip hop, funk, and breakbeat music, although modern trends allow for much wider varieties of music along certain ranges of tempo and beat patterns. The dance style originated primarily among Puerto Rican and African American youths many of them former members of street gangs, such as the Black Spades, the Young Spades, and the Baby Spades during the mid 1. Bronx. 1 The dance spread worldwide due to popularity in the media, especially in Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Russia, South Korea, and the United Kingdom. A practitioner of this dance is called a b boy, b girl, or breaker. Although the term breakdance is frequently used to refer to the dance in popular culture and in the mainstream entertainment industry, b boying and breaking are the original terms and are preferred by the majority of the pioneers and most notable practitioners. TerminologyeditInstead of the original term b boying break boying, the mainstream media promoted the artform as breakdancing, causing many to only know it as such. Enthusiasts consider breakdancing an ignorant and derogatory term due to the medias exploitation of the artform. The media displayed a simplified5 version of the dance, making it seem like the so called tricks were everything, ultimately trading the culture for money and promotion. The term breakdancing is also problematic because it has become a diluted umbrella term that incorrectly includes popping, locking, and electric boogaloo,7 6. BREAKIN-3.jpg' alt='Break In 2 Electric Boogaloo Download Music' title='Break In 2 Electric Boogaloo Download Music' />California. The dance itself is properly called breaking by rappers such as KRS One, Talib Kweli, Mos Def, and Darryl Mc. Daniels of RunD. M. C. 1. 0. Breaking in the street, 2. The terms b boy break boy, b girl break girl, and breaker were the original terms used to describe the dancers who performed to DJ Kool Hercs breakbeats. DJ Kool Herc is a Jamaican American DJ who is responsible for developing the foundational aspects of hip hop music. The obvious connection of the term breaking is to the word breakbeat. DJ Kool Herc has commented that the term breaking was 1. Most breaking pioneers and practitioners prefer the terms b boy, b girl, andor breaker when referring to these dancers. For those immersed in hip hop culture, the term breakdancer may be used to disparage those who learn the dance for personal gain rather than for commitment to the culture. B boy London of the New York City Breakers and filmmaker Michael Holman refer to these dancers as breakers. Frosty Freeze of the Rock Steady Crew says, we were known as b boys, and hip hop pioneer Afrika Bambaataa says, b boys, are what you call break boys. Alejandro Fernandez Confidencias 2013 Download here. In addition, co founder of Rock Steady Crew Santiago Jo Jo Torres, Rock Steady Crew member Marc Mr. Freeze Lemberger, hip hop historian Fab 5 Freddy, and rappers Big Daddy Kane1. Tech N9ne1. 3 use the term b boy. Source. Quote. Citation. Richard Crazy Legs Colon Rock Steady CrewWhen I first learned about the dance in 7. I even got caught up calling it break dancing too. Action New York City BreakersYou know what, thats our fault kind of. Santiago Jo Jo Torres Rock Steady CrewB boy. NPRBreakdancing 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. The Boston GlobeLesson one Dont call it breakdancing. Hip hops dance tradition, the kinetic counterpart to the sound scape of rap music and the visuals of graffiti art, is properly known as b boying. The Electric BoogaloosIn the 8. What many people didnt know was that within these styles, other sub cultures existed, each with their own identities. Breakdancing, or b boying as it is more appropriately known as, is known to have its roots in the east coast and was heavily influenced by break beats and hip hop. Jorge Popmaster Fabel PabonBreak dancing is a term created by the mediaOnce hip hop dancers gained the medias attention, some journalists and reporters produced inaccurate terminology in an effort to present these urban dance forms to the masses. The term break dancing is a prime example of this misnomer. Most pioneers and architects of dance forms associated with hip hop reject this term and hold fast to the original vernacular created in their places of origin. In the case of break dancing, it was initially called b boying or b girling. Benjamin B Tek Chung Jabba. Wockee. ZWhen someone says break dancing, we correct them and say its b boying. Timothy Popin Pete Solomon Electric BoogaloosAn important thing to clarify is that the term Break dancing is wrong, I read that in many magazines but that is a media term. The correct term is Breakin, people who do it are B Boys and B Girls. The term Break dancing has to be thrown out of the dance vocabulary. Excerpt from the book New York Ricans from the Hip Hop ZoneWith the barrage of media attention breaking received, even terminology started changing. Breakdancing became the catch all term to describe what originally had been referred to as burning, going off, breaking, b boying, and b girling Even though many of hip hops pioneers accepted the term for a while in the 1. Hip Hop Dance ConservatoryBreaking or b boying is generally misconstrued or incorrectly termed as breakdancing. Breakdancing is a term spawned from the loins of the medias philistinism, sciolism, and navet at that time. With no true knowledge of the hip hop diaspora but with an ineradicable need to define it for the nescient masses, the term breakdancing was born. Most breakers take great offense to the term. Jeff ChangDuring the 1. Latino kids sprang up in the inner cities of New York and California. The styles had a dizzying list of names uprock in Brooklyn, locking in Los Angeles, boogaloo and popping in Fresno, and strutting in San Francisco and Oakland. When these dances gained notice in the mid 8. American Heritage Dictionaryb boy bboi n. A man or boy who engages in b boying. BREAK from the danceable breaks in funk recordings from which turntablists make breakbeat music to which b boying is done BOY. HistoryeditMany elements of breakdancing can be seen in other antecedent cultures prior to the 1. B boy pioneers Richard Crazy Legs Colon and Kenneth Ken Swift Gabbert, both of Rock Steady Crew, cite James Brown and Kung Fu films as influences. Many of the acrobatic moves, such as the flare, show clear connections to gymnastics. In the 1. 87. 7 book Rob Roy on the Baltic John Mac. Gregor describes seeing near Norrkping a. The engraving shows a young man apparently breakdancing. The dance was called the Giesse Harad Polska or salmon district dance.