This week in our online classes we exlpore the five “pillars” of hip hop. Today: B-boying! Break dancing, known more commonly as “Breaking” or “B-boying,” originated on the streets of New York in the 1970s and ’80s, mainly among African-American and Puerto Rican youth, but has since spread worldwide. “B-boys” and “b-girls” took to street corners to demonstrate their dancing, using cardboard at their dance floor and the city as their arena. The term “breaking” may have originated as a ’70s as a slang term for becoming excited or causing an uproar. It may also refer to dance moves which would take place on the “breaks,” the drum beats that stand out fill the space between a song’s lyrics. In this video we meet some masterful B-boys from the ’80s. Yeah!
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Snuskverna etter Ola Øde
Our favorite move by far in the Norwegian Halling dance is the Snuskverna etter Ola Øde. Watch this video of a dancer from the FRIKAR ensemble doing the move. Wow. It’s obviously a breakin’ move from the 1980s in the Bronx. Except, remember, the Hallingdans is documented to be a northern European dance that’s 2,500 years old. The first breakdance? Double wow.
