BREAK-DANCE

Break-Dance

Break-Dance

Introduction

The b-boying (Break Dance), began as a method for rival gangs of the ghetto to resolve disputes over territory. The story of the break begins in the Bronx in the 1970s and is closely linked to the fate of a gang leader named Aka Kahyan Aasim, a member of the Bronx River Projects, a fraction of the Black Spades. We do not know if Aasim was really a bloodthirsty gang leader or an ordinary member as were then most kids in the Bronx. Still, it will change direction and create, under the pseudonym of Afrika Bambaataa, the Bronx River Association, later renamed Zulu Nation (1974).

Driven by his studies of African history and his love for music, he wants to catalyze the energy of young people in his neighborhood in the arts so they do not end up in gangs. He is the birth of a new movement: hip-hop (including the four pillars is rap, graffiti, scratching and djing and breakdance. Kool Herc, a Jamaican immigrant, realizes that the energy of the people on the dance floor to a head at certain passages of a song which are present only the bass line and drum line. He decided to play these passages repeatedly. To do this, it uses two record players (turntables) and put the same disk on both decks. It thus passes from one drive to another, repeating the same passage. This passage is called a break, or breakbeat. As the first breakeurs attended many evenings Kool Herc, they were called breakers or b-boys (for BRONX b). By extension, we use the term break dance.

It is extremely difficult to date precisely the genesis of break-dance. In the late 70's, New York is a cosmopolitan pool where each layer of immigration has developed its dance style. It is likely that the most popular dances at the time were the Good Foot and popcorn, inspired songs Get On The Good Foot James Brown and Popcorn. These dances were a quick leg kick, where the dancers move from one supporting foot to the other. One can note a certain resemblance to certain movements of swing, lindy hop or the charleston tap. This dance was probably also be dancing through the challenges. The mode would be wary of the atmosphere surrounding gangster, but also talent contests, which are so popular.

Fig.1

One can also consider the influence of locking which is then dance the most popular on the West Coast of the United States, and popping. The Good Foot was then able to give birth to the upwork, where two (or more) dancing in front of one another in imitation of fighting. The rule states that dance is forbidden to touch his opponent.

Fig.2

In New York, at 50-60 years, was a large influx of immigrants. Everyone has made ??some own a piece of dance, such as Africans, who made ??a dance rhythm. The influence of African dance to break dancing is obviously not only due to "dancing in a ...