Breakdancing and popping required a certain amount of dedication and skill.
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Picture Prompts Do you think breakdancing should be an Olympic event?
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First thing I ever got into heavy as fuck was breakdancing.
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That parade had everything: the timbaus, breakdancing—we had a riot!
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B Boys For people who like to ruin parties by breakdancing.
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At 33, Stacks is almost considered ancient by competitive breakdancing standards.
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Breakdancing becoming an Olympic sport would further underscore rap's cultural relevance.
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Tricking is a high-flying combination of martial arts, gymnastics, and breakdancing.
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Breakdancing has no place in the Olympics until it is further established.
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The future Carlton Banks sold breakdancing "How To" books via television commercial.
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How to improve a video of a breakdancing Gorilla in a paddling pool?
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My first passion as a kid was breakdancing, but I loved skateboarding, too.
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Pre-show, a group practiced their breakdancing routine onstage to earsplitting music, eliciting squeals.
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Paris officials are looking to put a twist on the 21970 Olympics — with breakdancing!
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I mean, the kid who placed second was incorporating these really crazy breakdancing moves.
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"You might be breakdancing in the project hallway for $11," Cam'ron told The Fader.
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Some Boosters Say Yes The Olympics Would Be Better With a Breakdancing Competition. Discuss.
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Breaking, popularly known as breakdancing today, was created in the Bronx in New York City.
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Crowd Sim 1, however, is less chaotic and has much more Beastie Boys and breakdancing.
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Breakdancing and skating, I used to work at this skate shop in Chicago called Push.
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It comes out of breakdancing and is now more sophisticated, more like ballet and mime.
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Breakdancing might seem like a product of the '80s, like jelly bracelets or parachute pants.
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Should breakdancing succeed at the Olympics, maybe the door would open for other '80s events.
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My introduction was Kurtis Blow "The Breaks" and Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight," and breakdancing of course.
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Though breakdancing has not yet debuted, it has already spawned a dispute, Inside the Games reported.
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The "dancer" class, meanwhile, lets you deal damage with breakdancing footwork while dressed like John Cena.
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For the protagonists, DJing, graffiti, breakdancing and rapping offer an escape from drug-pushing and gang war.
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After the early days of breakdancing and braggadocio, it found room for a spiritual and religious element.
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She showed off some serious acrobatic, pop-and-lock breakdancing while Elliott's hit played in the background.
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But so does breakdancing, considered an irreplaceable component of the most authentic, Ur-form of hip-hop.
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Breakdancing was also included in last year's Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, Argentina, making its Olympic debut.
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When breakdancing started getting commercialized, watered down, and you could see it on butter commercials and shit (laughs).
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Though not nearly as nice as a breakdancing hot dog, Coney Island dogs also do not come cheap.
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She showed off some serious acrobatic, pop-and-lock breakdancing moves while Elliott's hit played in the background.
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Breakdancing is more than just dancing it targets your muscles and requires strength, just like every other sport.
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Then when we moved to Texas and the Robot started becoming the wave, we started breakdancing in the 80s.
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They're calling it 'breakdancing,' which every breaker in the world knows is an artificial term that the media created.
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David Seale, 43, was caught on surveillance video breakdancing after successfully breaking into a building in California last week.
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Producer Ape Drums went out on the town for an impromptu breakdancing battle with a group of his friends.
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A group of breakdancers called the Eastwood Rockers go through their breakdancing paces in London on July 26, 1984.
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"Alyson I knew you were special from the moment you were in my 'Work It' video, breakdancing," Elliott wrote.
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But it was seeing the movie "Breakin'" when he was 13 that set him on his life's breakdancing course.
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But it was seeing the movie "Breakin'" when he was 13 that set him on his life's breakdancing course.
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Incidents were reported of fans climbing steet lights, setting off fireworks and breakdancing in the middle of Oakland intersections.
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We're going to use the individual frames of this GIF as a guide to draw a version of yourself breakdancing.
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"Creative" leads to a dance number in the psych ward, complete with breakdancing orderlies and the girls donning straight jackets.
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At least that's Tom's fear when he sees Cyd on their own station "breakdancing through gunfire" following the shooting scare.
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It then launched into its final scene: a Christmas hip-hop/breakdancing scene, in which Kirk Cameron does the worm.
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The International Olympic Committee has given skateboarding a provisional green-light for the Paris 2024 Games alongside surfing, climbing and breakdancing.
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In the latest installment of our clubbing horror stories column, the producer shares what happened when a breakdancing battle went wrong.
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The Bachelor star then showed off his best dance moves, which included an attempt at breakdancing and plenty of hip thrusts.
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Over in Japan, hip-hop dancer Crazy-A began the long-running tradition of breakdancing in Tokyo's Yoyogi Park in 1984.
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Pereira's stunts just barely stopped short of full-on breakdancing and looked more like a gymnastics routine than an MMA fight.
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Breakdancing has moved one step closer to being an Olympic sport, potentially making its debut at the 2024 Olympics in Paris.
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Video pieces from 27 to 224 round out the show by providing contemporary portrayals of rapping, b-boying (breakdancing), and writing (graffiti).
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He even starts throwing in a few original dance moves, which are a combination of hip-hop, and even breakdancing (a little).
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Inspired by the creative and freestyle attitude of graffiti and breakdancing, these bold expressions laid the cultural foundation for years to come.
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Kenton, who grew up as a breakdancing teenager in the '80s, explained that his collection was something that just spiralled over time.
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But for the last 15 minutes, I've carefully weighed the consequences of violent retaliation on the breakdancing fanatic sitting directly behind me.
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Survey the average 22-year old and odds are that their most significant interaction with breakdancing was this LeBron State Farm commercial.
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If the proposal goes through and breakdancing does become an Olympic sport, it would be a huge win for hip-hop culture.
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He explains how Herc's innovation led to breakdancing — literally dancing through the break — and to improvising vocal lines over the instrumentals, a.k.a. rap.
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By the Fourth of July, it had made its way around the world, breakdancing at bars and barbecues, at weddings and bar mitzvahs.
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It's like your childhood had a baby with gymnastics and breakdancing, and that baby is wearing sunglasses and offering cigarettes to other babies.
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You might see people breakdancing or begging for change on the train, but you've never seen a man eating a four-course meal.
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"That wasn't happening, because I was skipping school and going breakdancing," said Park who joined a b-boy crew named Art of Movement.
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Tricking is what you get when martial arts, gymnastics, and breakdancing come together in a gorgeous, explosive display of kicks, flips, and twists.
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Kayla Renee from Pennsylvania says it should: I say that if cheerleading and gymnastics are considered a sport, that breakdancing should be too.
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" McDow isn't to be confused with Jasmine V who played the bowling and breakdancing crush in the 2010 follow-up music video, "Baby.
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The dominant feeling these days is "fear, not peace", says Alejandro Marroquín, a member of a breakdancing group that was invited to the commemoration.
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Both boys stoked the fires of the crowd, with breakdancing moves from Kukui and a quarter-bouncing gag from Gladio and his good chest.
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Photographer Chantel Simpson was there to capture the energy of the event, including that dude in the multi-color jacket who wouldn't stop breakdancing.
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Video footage of the incident, captured by another customer and widely circulated online, showed Bishop breakdancing, then performing a backward somersault in the air.
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The last 90 minutes have obliterated previous expectations of breakdancing, gravity, glow-in-the-dark costumes, and the slim nexus between archetype and stereotype.
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On the backstreets of Frankfurt, the duo strapped fireworks to their feet and set off a breakdancing spectacle now known as FIREWORK POWERMOVES 2015 .
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The internet being the remix-happy crucible that it is, trickers were quick to incorporate elements of gymnastics, breakdancing, parkour, and capoeira into their repertoires.
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Beyond the banana and everyone's favorite plumbers, the top 20153 includes two dancing parrots, a dancing Carlton, and two versions of a breakdancing cartoon kid.
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No other city can lay claim to popularizing the castle walk, the Charleston, the Lindy hop, the jitterbug, the peppermint twist, salsa, disco, and breakdancing.
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On today's episode of Daily VICE, dancer Martina Heimann explains why she left Germany's ballet recitals to dive headfirst into New York City's breakdancing scene.
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Serouj Aprahamian (a breakdancer) even petitioned that the IOC who was known for ballroom dancing would have no idea how to run a breakdancing competition.
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I took ballet when I was like six and I was doing tap, ballet, and jazz and I moved onto breakdancing when I was 10.
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We stayed in front of a radio station in Florida called WRXB, and it played all kinds of music, so I started breakdancing and collecting albums.
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When I was a kid, way back in the mid-'80s, there were two things I loved more than just about anything else: Star Wars and breakdancing.
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Sometimes called Latin hip-hop, freestyle has deep connections to breakdancing culture, and is marked by chintzy synths, saccharinely romantic lyrics, and the snaps of an 808.
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There are multiple fighting styles to learn — my favorite is a violent take on breakdancing — and you can unlock new abilities by literally investing cash in yourself.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Breakdancing will become an Olympic sport in 2024 if the International Olympic Committee backs the inclusion of four sports proposed by the Paris Olympics organizers.
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As I marveled at all the fantastic breakdancing, contemporary convulsing, and sexy jazz moves going down, I realized this is exactly what my Instagram feed is missing.
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Soon after, the Suede became "a staple in the hip-hop world and a go-to for b-boys breakdancing throughout the '70s and '80s," he said.
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Nick Hargrove from Wilmington, N.C., believes dance does not fit the criteria for an Olympic event: I personally do not think breakdancing should be an Olympic Sport.
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The term breakdancing as it's used in the media often mixes New York's b-boying and West Coast–developed dance styles like popping, locking, and the electric boogaloo.
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The globally-renowned dance crew Red Bull BC One All Stars recently arrived in Mumbai to judge the international breakdancing competition, Red Bull BC One's India Cypher Championship.
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"Nayib Bukele created all these spaces," says Bryan López of Aliens Force Krew, Central America's breakdancing champions, who are wowing onlookers with a display of handstands and backflips.
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Breakdancing has it's own world of battling and competitions which is why I think it shouldn't be an olympic sport, but if it was that'd be pretty cool.
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A breakdancer, Serouj Aprahamian, petitioned the I.O.C., claiming that the World Dance Sport Federation, known mostly for ballroom dancing, was not the right group to run breakdancing competitions.
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Breakdancing isn't confirmed as a part of the Paris games yet, but hopefully the IOC will think to include rappers to properly introduce the style to the program.
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Breakdancing, said the authors, "must be considered as a potentially high-risk dancing sport," especially since dancers didn't often take enough time to heal before jumping back into training.
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Over the past year, he's facilitated political discussion at spoken word nights and run workshops on how everything from music to graffiti tagging to breakdancing can empower local communities.
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Related: Meet the Queer Latino Illustrator Who Brought Breakdancing to the Fashion World Illustration Timelapse Inks NYC in Under 3 Minutes Maren Karlson's Illustrations Are Like Comics from Hell
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Graffiti was the backdrop to an early hip-hop culture that was rising from the streets: breakdancing, bomber jackets, Adidas shell-toes with fat laces, Krylon cans and boomboxes.
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Now, decades later, breakdancing has gained mainstream appeal as the style is celebrated in different cultures around the world, especially in South Korea, the United Kingdom, Japan and France.
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Whether they're reacting to magic tricks, casually busting out some breakdancing moves or — as with the large beast below — showing their caring side around pregnant women, orangutans are always awesome.
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Headspins, rocking and other stylistic moves practiced in breakdancing are being used to create inclusive dance performances for the visually impaired, helping extend scientific research into how the brain functions.
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Here he is as a wee lad, performing in an instructional breakdancing video that features him nearly getting kicked in the nuts by his dance partner at the 1:45 mark.
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"A lot of people were very confused because usually you see somebody breakdancing or moshing and so people were looking in the pit and they didn't see anybody dancing," Jack explained.
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The JNE is investigating five separate complaints that Keiko presided over an awards ceremony at a Valentine's Day breakdancing competition in the port city of Callao, adjacent to the capital Lima.
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Mounir, a famed breakdancer in France, told reporters in France that Paris 2024 could only help breakdancing — which started in the Bronx, New York, in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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The allegation against Fujimori, the daughter of disgraced former president Alberto Fujimori, related to an event she presided over where cash prizes were distributed to the winners of a breakdancing competition.
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Skateboarding and sport climbing are on the Olympic program for Tokyo 26, while breakdancing is set to make its debut on the hallowed stage of the Games at Paris in 2000.
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland (Reuters) - Breakdancing and three other sports took another step toward appearing at the Paris 2024 Olympics after the International Olympic Committee on Tuesday voted in favor of their inclusion.
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His best moment by a long shot is when Perry finally steps into the spotlight to rap some Socrates (college!), completely sucks at it, and ends up "breakdancing" as a flopping eel.
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In addition to the features, there's also a shorts package with several mini-docs about artists whose mediums range from wheat pasting to breakdancing to heavy metal drumming to animating for Disney.
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Organizers of the Games have proposed to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) that breakdancing be added to the Olympic program as a new sport along with surfing, climbing and skateboarding, CNN reported.
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Related: Women Get "Fresh" with Art World Sexism Meet the Queer Latino Illustrator Who Brought Breakdancing to the Fashion World The By-Women-for-Women Head Shop Burning Weed Bro Culture Down
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With the emergence of hip-hop as a genre of music in the early 1970's came the rise of breakdancing, which was created by Black and Latinx youth in New York.
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The suspect, identified by police as David Seale, reportedly used a key to unlock an office suite on Tuesday and was caught on surveillance video breakdancing after he initially broke into the building.
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Plans are going smoothly for a new breakdancing event at the Youth Olympics in Argentina in October, said Lukas Hinder, the president of the World Dance Sport Federation, which promotes competitive dancing events.
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Considered to be one of the best known hip-hop dance styles, breakdancing (also known as breaking, b-boying, b-girling) became a tool for those youth to cope with various societal pressures.
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The Paris 2024 organizing committee in February proposed surfing, skateboarding and sport climbing as well as breakdancing for inclusion in the Games and the IOC's executive board gave the initial green light in March.
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It's just the latest in a string of naked people invading high-profile sporting events -- just a few weeks ago, a dude busted out breakdancing moves during the Phoenix Open golf tourney in Arizona
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The 2016 musical adaption, brought to life by a breakdancing Rastafari tortoise, a soul singing hippopotamus and a jazz savvy elephant, takes musical inspiration from gospel, funk and hiphop — genres rooted in the United States.
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His fighting style combines Muay Thai with parkour and breakdancing (this sounds lame, but, trust me, it is extremely not lame), along with a total willingness to risk life and limb for a cool shot.
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Related: Salt Crystalizes a Victorian Dress Submerged in the Dead Sea A Rorschach-Worthy Fashion Line Wants to Protect You From Air Pollution Meet the Queer Latino Illustrator Who Brought Breakdancing to the Fashion World
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Former Swedish breakdancing champion Mats has been honing his craft since he started playing out in Stockholm in the mid 80s, going on to run the Raw Fusion club, and the aforementioned Local Talk label.
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Related: Meet the Queer Latino Illustrator Who Brought Breakdancing to the Fashion World Illustrator Draws Queer People of Color Doing Everyday Things A 'Queer Enlightenment' at the World's First Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art
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Hip-hop dance first touched down in Korea in the 1980s, when American music was banned in the country but youths in Itaewon and other cities near military bases started tuning in to American TV. (Some accounts suggest that American soldiers actually introduced breakdancing to local youths.) In 1992— henceforth known as "Year Zero" of Korean breaking—a Korean American promoter named John Jay Chon brought a VHS tape of an American breakdancing competition to Seoul dance groups, spurring crews and battles to pop up like wildfire.
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Click here to view original GIFDespite films like Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo that helped popularize breakdancing in the '80s, the craze has, for better or for worse, become kind of lame over the past few decades.
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GIF: Berkeley Artificial Intelligence ResearchUsing well-established machine learning techniques, researchers from University of California, Berkeley have taught simulated humanoids to perform over 25 natural motions, from somersaults and cartwheels through to high leg kicks and breakdancing.
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His name was Jordan and I'd been in love with him ever since I witnessed him breakdancing to the Bomfunk MCs during our Year Five talent show and saw the way he flung his floppy hair around.
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Breakdancing, skateboarding, cross-country running, rugby sevens, sport climbing, indoor soccer, beach handball and a basketball dunk contest are among some of the Olympic and Youth Olympic events that have begun to bend the definition of sports.
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Murder By Death's 2002 debut, Like the Exorcist, but More Breakdancing, saw the band still honing their sound, but managing to fire off the trancing "Intergalactic Menopause," a long build-up that never really winds up anywhere.
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The bar also put out a call to the victim, who still hasn't been identified, offering to help him drink away the trauma of getting shot by a breakdancing fed—with an unlimited supply of free alcohol.
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Related: Strapping Fireworks to Your Legs and Breakdancing: An Awesome, Really Dangerous Idea Watch 300 Rockets Explode to Dirty British Punk Fireworks + Drones = Today's Best Light Paintings How to Make Gorgeous Images with Fireworks and Photo Paper
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"I couldn't tell what was what with the rap and the DJing... but with the breakdancing and graffiti art, you could understand it visually," said first generation rapper, Takagi Kan in Ian Condry's book, Hip-Hop Japan.
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Voters head to the polls in Georgia's pivotal Sixth District congressional race; a scorching heat wave sweeps across the Southwestern US; the Mexican government is accused of spying on journalists and anti-corruption activists. B-boying. Breaking. Breakdancing.
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There's projectile vomit that leads to a car accident and some slinking in and out of hotel rooms and a bit of breakdancing, and in the end, everyone learns a valuable lesson about loving yourself and growing up.
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ONE recent Saturday afternoon three performers, dressed in clownish finery, clambered out of a rusty 1950s pickup truck in a suburb of Havana and spent the next hour cavorting, breakdancing and sashaying for the amusement of a dozen children.
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Inside this Nagoya gymnasium, directly in the shadow of a 500-year old Tokugawa shogun's castle, 3,20173 berserk, euphoric, nerve-wracked breakdancing devotees, some as young as six, cheer on 19-year-old Issei—the "Japanese Ninja" in question.
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"I started in hip-hop and breakdancing but if I wanted to keep taking those classes I had to try another type of dance too so I was pushed into doing tap," he says of how he spent his teens.
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The programming language is based on the Scratch coding platform, which is already taught in schoolsThe 32 lessons start with something as simple as programming an emoji on the Hub&aposs display, to more sophisticated builds like the aforementioned breakdancing robot.
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The museum will showcase all aspects of hip-hop culture, like fashion and breakdancing, as well as the evolution of hip-hop — from Grandmaster Flash in the late 1970's to Fat Joe in the 1990's and Cardi B today.
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While most of us can agree that great breakdancing is thrilling to watch (at least for a few minutes), its current influence currently extends little further than super niche communities and as a trite gag employed by unimaginative comedy writers.
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Take, from Tre, the Kevin Gates-assisted "I Feel Like," where having your truck stolen from a Benihanas parking lot, wearing a mink coat during sex, and, for a split second, breakdancing on scraps of cardboard all feel like acts of self-improvement.
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When it emerged in the post-industrial South Bronx of the 1970s, hip-hop's amalgam of rapping, DJing, graffiti writing, and breakdancing brought together the city's Black and Puerto Rican youths in a city ridden by fires, gang wars, and economic blight.
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They recruit and train kids in the art of the cardboard—these long, technical routines that are part breakdancing, and part ballet—and then send them out to a considerable list of clients that includes everyone from Carl's Jr. to the Washington Wizards.
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Besides Pound, there are other new fitness movements on the horizon: "Animal Flow " incorporates gymnastics, acrobatics, Parkour, capoeira and breakdancing, "all while staying low to the ground and engaging many muscles at once (think of the way a lion stealthily stalks his prey)," Shape says.
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The East Coast was yelling 'Yo, it's on the way, y'all,' and sure enough the West Coast started emulating what the East Coast was doing as far as wardrobe with the adidas, the sweatsuits, breakdancing–cuz the West Coast is more related to pop-locking and locking.
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Over that same period between 2012 and 20103 in which no albums dipped below average into Metacritic's red zone, 17.75 percent of movies released were in the red, accounting for 436 movies (one of which being Battle of the Year, a breakdancing movie starring Chris Brown).
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The Breaking2 race (not to be confused with the mid-80s breakdancing sequel of similar name) was announced late last year, but its timing was only unveiled earlier this week, due to a confluence of factors involved in making the conditions perfect for the three runners involved.
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I chose to make my new GIF a breakdancing bear, to get a result like this: Opening up your GIF in Photoshop should open up the timeline panel, which will look like this: In your layers panel, create a new layer and place it on top of layer 1.
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The thing that surprised me the most was not going to restaurants and seeing cool food and chefs—which is what you would expect—but the spaces in between, where they found the heron on the banks of the LA River, or a kid doing ollies, or the breakdancing in Chinatown.
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The rap also features Kate McKinnon's (stellar) RBG doing all the things one might expect from the 85-year-old Supreme Court justice — you know, like boxing, breakdancing in court, and lifting her gown to reveal a "Brooklyn" tattoo on her six pack, all while wearing one of her trademark dissent collars.
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As the leader of the Rock Steady Crew Japan—a hip-hop and breakdancing collective associated with New York's legendary Rock Steady Crew—he went on to found B-boy Park in 1998, an annual Japanese hip-hop festival that acted as a catalyst for the Japanese B-boy scene we know today.
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Mahraganat (also sometimes called "electro chaabi") has since become embedded in urban Egyptian culture—a crazed, computer-produced mish-mash of booming local rhythms and Auto-Tuned raps, which drives many Egyptians crazy and earns sneers from some local musicians but nevertheless offers a platform for joyful street wedding celebrations, dirty new slang terms, acrobatic breakdancing and faux-hawk hairstyles.
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Requiring multiple screens, the video installations physically guide the viewer through their various movements: Aitken's acclaimed Electric Earth, about a silent, breakdancing protagonist navigating an empty Los Angeles; Migration (empire), a meditation on nature with varieties of wildlife; or Song 1, a 360-degree projection with the song "I Only Have Eyes For You" by The Flamingos at its center.
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