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History of Hip Hop Dance

Hip Hop Dancing Animated Gif Breakin seems so different from all other kinds of dancing that the first question people ask when they see it is:

"Where did these kids learn to dance like that?" To many people, this dance seems to have come out of nowhere. But like everything else, Breakin did come from somewhere, something and someone. In the case of Breakin, the someone is the great superstar, James Brown, and the something is the dance, the Good Foot.

In 1969, when James Brown was getting down with his big hit "Get on the Good Foot" the Hustle was the big dance style of the day. If you've ever seen James Brown live in concert or on TV, then you know he can really get down. And when he performed his hit, he did the kind of dance you'd expect James Brown to do. High Energy. This almost acrobatic dance was appropriately enough known as the lot of kids around New York City. By the time the Good Foot became the new dance style, the tradition of dance battle was well established. Dancers would gather at places like Harlem World on 116th Street in Harlem and Battle-dancewise.

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Battles are covered in more detail in the section on battles, challanges, and contests, but the important thing as far as the history of Breakin is concerned is that Breakin was particularly well-suited for competition. And not only was the Good Foot well- suited for dance battles, it appealed to certain young men who were very athletic. The Good Foot, which was soon to be called B-Boy and shortly after that Breaking, was very different from the Breaking we see today. In some ways it was simpler. There were no Headspin. No Windmill. No Handglides or Backspins. It was what is now called old-style Breaking. Old-Style Breaking consisted only of floor work, or Floor Rock, and in a way it was more complex than modern Breaking.

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There may be some small variations on the Headspin and a Backspin, but basically, a Headspin is a head spin and a Backspin is a back spin. But Floor Rock can involve some extremely complicated leg moves, and it is done very fast. And it did not take long before where were a lot of Breakin battles happening. Among those for whom old-style Breaking was especially popular were many of the youths and street gangs that roamed the South Bronx. And it was in those streets that Breaking really started. Often, the best Breakers in opposing gangs would battle dancewise instead of fighting. Hip Hop Dancing Animated Gif

They would battle over turf. Or because someone stepped on someone else's shoes. They might battle prove that their gang was better than the other gang. Hip Hop Dancing Animated Gif
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