by Jane Claire
Breakdancing started in the streets of Bronx back in the 1970's. It was first classified as a type of street dancing involving remixed music with highly-advanced and sophisticated maneuvers. Today, breakdancing is a popular modern dance routine performed around the world -- either as a friendly competition between "crews" out in the streets or parks, dance events between groups, and of course, international competition sponsored by big names in the industry.
A detailed history of this type of dance shows that it started as a way for kids and teenagers to express themselves by showing their "cool moves" to other kids or teens. This dance is notable for the athletic movements and rhythmic maneuvers where the focus is more on extreme power moves along with "freezes". It was African Americans and Latinos the trend then it began to spread until it reached international crowd.
For anyone who breakdances, they prefer to be called "b-boys" or "b-girls" and the called simply "breaking".
Breakdancing got its name from the "breaks" in the music where performers put a halt on their extreme dance moves to show off. In most cases, the musics are remixed to fit in these breaks to allow more emphasis on the maneuvers. There are 5 moves incorporated into this modern dance routine, namely:
1. Downrock - Also known as footwork or floorwork where the focus of the move is on the feet and execution of body movements on the floor.
2. Toprock - dance moves performed in a standing position.
3. Power Moves - Risky, athletic moves that need strength, balance or stamina or any combination to perform. The move begins usually with circular maneuvers for the sake of gaining momentum.
4. Freezes - the performer stays in a pose, usually after executing power moves, during the break in the music;
5. Suicides - An extreme maneuver that puts an exclamation to the end of a routine.
If you break down the fundamentals of "breaking", one will observe that the emphasis is more into the person's physical strength and balance. The moves can be quite tricky and require complete control of the body or ends up in very painful consequences brought about by lack of timing and experience.
This is the reason why professionals in this field who teach breakdancing train their students to the point that their balance and strength is improved until they can do complex moves with ease.
The debate regarding breakdancing being more expressive on power than style has been around ever since but breakdancers can be classified in either of the two. Lessons in dancing workshops will train dancers to use both fundamentals. It's only up to the dancer which style he will focus more on.
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Title: Tradition of Breakdancing
Author: Jane Claire
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Keywords: breakdance,breakdancing,hiphop,dance,culture,teens,society,entertainment
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