What the hell is breakdancing?
[youtube:3423n41w]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyMasVRj4KI[/youtube:3423n41w]
Seriously. I can watch hours of this stuff and not comprehend the first thing about it.
Also, why was this a thing?
Why do people do anything at all? People like different things. What is hard to understand about that? We have always been a diverse species.
I think all breakdancing originally stemmed from martial arts imitation. I read somewhere that some of the first people to do it back in the 70's were inspired by kung-fu movies.
U dance
U broke it
U pay for it
Quote from: "stromboli"U dance
U broke it
U pay for it
Hell no, I ain't paying for shit. The floor was wet I'm suing.
Quote from: "the_antithesis"What the hell is breakdancing?
It's how to settle a dispute, with a dance off.
Plagued by break dancing? I think that is a symptom of Alzheimer's.
It's street performance.. nothing new there, but it's an offshoot of other performance art and art is subjective.. You either like it or you don't.. It's still performance art..
The kind of breaking that I always thought was great was called "poppin'". The famous "robot" dance was once part of it. I'm no big fan of dance, and most forms of the art bore me to tears, but there's something that tickles my eyes about stuff like this:
[youtube:21roe3kg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziWAHKUaAUk[/youtube:21roe3kg]
Quote from: "drunkenshoe"Quote from: "AllPurposeAtheist"It's street performance.. nothing new there, but it's an offshoot of other performance art and art is subjective.. You either like it or you don't.. It's still performance art..
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Don't roll your eyes. You simply don't like it, so? I don't like baseball or soccer. It's not my thing either, so?
Quote from: "drunkenshoe"Quote from: "AllPurposeAtheist"It's street performance.. nothing new there, but it's an offshoot of other performance art and art is subjective.. You either like it or you don't.. It's still performance art..
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Are you arguing that art has objective standards and metrics?
Or just derogating this particular expression of art?
Quote from: "the_antithesis"What the hell is breakdancing?
Breakdancing is, in my opinion, the 'professional wrestling' of performing arts. It's not 'real' dancing, but the guys who do this stuff are some of the most physically gifted performers you will ever see...hence the wrestling comparison. People can call it fake if they want, but I know people who have been dancing for 25 years who would have a heart attack if they tried some of these moves.
By the way, I had a cat that could windmill!
First there was rap. Then in the late seventies/early eighties two forms of streetdance were populary preformed to rap-music, adding up to what we now call hip-hop.
The two popular forms of streetdance were electric boogy and breakdance.
Electric boogy with its robotic elements had more in common with classic mime... and it's where MJ stole his fucking moonwalk from. It was called the spacewalk first.
Breakdancing is rythmic acrobatics with handstands, headspins salto's and whatnot.
Quote from: "Aroura33"I think all breakdancing originally stemmed from martial arts imitation. I read somewhere that some of the first people to do it back in the 70's were inspired by kung-fu movies.
It was a fusion right from the start-- definitely mime, fighting, gymnastics and other modern dance forms were influences right from the start.
//http://www.globaldarkness.com/articles/history%20of%20breaking.htm
It's possible it's a treatable medical condition.
Judging from the article Sabrina posted, the old-school breakdancing can be traced back to James brown's splits and slides.
http://www.globaldarkness.com/articles/ ... eaking.htm (http://www.globaldarkness.com/articles/history%20of%20breaking.htm)
the stuff you see nowadays is new-school breakdancing, and that started with these guys.
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I remember breakdancing was all the rage around 1983-1985. Then it became uncool and died. Somehow it has been resurrected over the last few years.
Based on my observations, it appears to be some sort of urban mating ritual in which the males induce seizures to see who gets the stankiest female. Fascinating. :popcorn:
Based on my observations, it appears to be some sort of urban mating ritual in which the males induce seizures to see who gets the stankiest female. Fascinating. :popcorn: