![]() Robotic movements flow into smooth whole-body waves before dropping into acrobatic leg flares that suddenly halt in mid-spin freezes that seem to defy gravity. It mixes super-quick footwork with body-torquing twists. In keeping with hip hop’s ethic of improvisation, breaking is often a create-on-the-fly dance style. Early b(reaker)-girls and b-boys like Crazy Legs and his Rock Steady Crew earned their skills on that hard ground, admiring each other’s cuts, bruises, and “battle scars” as they pushed one another to evermore audacious displays of style and guts. By his early teens, the boy now immortalized as “Crazy Legs” became a trendsetter for breaking-a dance revolution still popping, locking, and rocking the world.Īs hip hop culture rose from the streets of the Bronx, breaking spun up and stepped out from the concrete itself. “I just saw all these kids having fun.checking out the whole scene, and it was my first time watching the dance with the music being played.I just immediately became a part of it.” Richard Colón was just 10 when his cousin took him to his first schoolyard bash in 1976. “Ah, I was just blown away,” he says in Jeff Chang’s history of hip hop, Can’t Stop Won’t Stop. Image via Creative Commons user Néstor Baltodano So what is hip hop? All of the above and more-whatever we love enough to bring. Graffiti rises on the Great Wall of China. ![]() B-boys and b-girls bust baby freezes in Finland. DJs spin turntables in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Its sounds, styles, and fashions are now in play around the world.
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