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First Steps
Breakdancing started in 1969. That was the year that James Brown recorded "Get on the Good Foot", a song that inspired an acrobatic dance based on the high energy moves that Brown performed on stage.
"Get on the Good Foot" of James brown : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgGwI12zMJg -
The Zulu Kings
1969 was also the year that Afrika Bambaataa started organizing ghetto youth into one of the first breakdance crews: The Zulu Kings. The Zulu Kings won contests and talent shows. They performed their moves at dance clubs. Bambaataa recognized the potential for acrobatic dancing, and he encouraged young people to stick with it. -
Afrika Bambaataa
In 1969, Afrika Bambaataa saw Breakdancing as more than just dancing. He saw it as a way to achieve something. He saw the potential of Breakdancing, and encouraged the dancers to keep at it. To work hard, and to believe that if they stuck with it, something good would come of it. -
ADIDAS SUPERSTAR
the first adidas superstar was released in 1969, it was enormously worn by the breakdance community -
Jimmy Castor
Jimmy Castor, New Yorker, former singer of doo wop, is the author of the famous track "Hey Leroy" which was one of the first references of the break.
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DJ Kool Herc
Dj Kool Herc decides to play loops.
This passage is called a break, or breakbeat. As the first breakers frequented the evenings of Kool Herc, they were called breakers or b-boys (b for break), the nickname given to them by Kool Herc himself. By extension, we use the term break dance. -
GrandMaster Flash
In the mis 70´s Dj grand Master flash is considered to be one of the pioneers of hip-hop DJing, cutting, scratching and mixing. -
ADIDAS GAZELLE
It was in the 70s that the gazelle triumphed! Wear by all the athletes, she conquered the breakdance scene in the same years.
Red, Blue, Green, there is something for every taste and to match any outfit. -
ADIDAS PROMODEL
The ProModel was released in the 1970s and seduced the world of breakdance mainly for its great comfort.
It's the baby of Adidas Superstar. -
"Scorpio" - Dennis Coffey
"Scorpio" is a song by Dennis Coffey and the Detroit Guitar Band. It charted at number 6 on the Billboard Hot 100.
This music has been enormously used and sampled in the break. -
NIKE CORTEZ
The Cortez is the first track shoe created by Nike, and was thought to be significant to the success of the Nike brand.
She quickly seduced the Bronx and the middle of Breakdance. -
PONY
PONY is a shoe brand that has a lot of influence on the breakdance scene. These commercials focused on breakdancing -
Block Party, the beginning of a great story!
The Bronx, July 1973, in the heart of ghetto district, the first Blocks Party's were born! The principle ? Block the street on both sides and connect speakers.
In these outlying areas of New York, DJ's and MC's like DJ Kool Herc or James Brown was eagerly awaited.
Their only challenge was to thrill the crowd.
For that, they had found the perfect music: the BREAK, ie the rhythmic passage leaving the tempo naked. -
Incredible Bongo Band
The Incredible Bongo Band’s version of “Apache” would sound the call for B-boys to battle on the dance floor—first in the Bronx, then worldwide. Thanks to the most commanding breakbeat this side of the James Brown catalog, the Bongo Band's “Apache” is one the most-sampled records of all time, and there are no signs of that changing anytime soon. -
Rock Steady Crew
Rock Steady Crew has been the one who emphasizes styles to show dancer's individual flavor. Even though power moves have a great impact and very energetic, it is hard to put individual flavor into the moves. -
"Everybody Loves the Sunshine" - Roy Ayers
He is one of the pioneers of the Break culture by having created different musics afterwards sampler then taken again to chain the steps of dances.
1977, will definitively mark the sound of an era. He signs some of the most popular titles of all time as Everybody Loves the Sunshine.
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Sugarhill Gang
Released in September 1979, Rapper's Delight is considered the first rap song to have achieved international renown. Record sales, which ranked 36th in the Billboard Hot 100 and 3rd in the UK Singles Chart, are estimated at more than 10 million copies.
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New York City Breakers
New York City Breakers is a dance break band from the Kingsbridge area of the Bronx, originally known as the "Floor Masters". Their biggest rivals are Rock Steady Crew band. -
"The Breaks" - Kurtis Blow
Kurtis Blow, whose real name is Kurtis Carter, born August 9, 1959 in Harlem, New York, is an American rapper and producer. He is the first rapper who has achieved success and the first to have signed with a major. The Breaks, a single from his first album, released in 1980, is the first hip-hop song certified gold by the RIAA
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Ricky Powell
Ricky Powell (born November 20, 1961) is an American photographer. He is the author of four books. Powell is a photographer who specializes in the environmental portrait.
Il a beaucoup de confiance en la culture de breakdance et le Hip-Hop publie ses clichés dans de grands journaux comme le New York Times. -
Jamel Shabazz
Breakdance, rap, street arts of all kinds, the New York of the 80s was the breeding ground for the development of hip-hop culture. Fortunately, Brooklyn photographer Jamel Shabazz took the time to capture the urban atmosphere that reigned there. -
Martha Cooper
Martha Cooper, "THE" photographer, presents at the very beginning of New York's Hip-Hop movement and graffiti, at a time when these movements were more than "underground" and photography still something special. -
PUMA SUEDE
PUMA is an iconic brand but it is only in the 80s and 90s that Puma Suede definitively acquires its legendary status when it is adopted in the streets of New York, especially in the Bronx where are built the basics of hip-hop and one of these disciplines: breakdance. -
"The Message" - The Furious Five
Grandmaster Flash had gathered around him five rising rappers: The Kidd Creole, Keith Cowboy, Rahiem, Miss Mel and Scorpio : The Furious Five. At the end of the seventies, the six men flew for an international tour around the world. An incredible experience for these musicians who had never left their native Bronx, and an unexpected opportunity to make their art listen to the world. -
Wild Style
Wild Style is an American film about hip-hop culture shot in 1982
The mythical Rock Steady Crew appears there, just like the rappers like Busy Bee Starski, Fantastic Romantic 5, Cold Crush, Rammellzee, or Grandmaster Flash -
The Roxy
Beginning in the early 1980s, the owners began hosting dance nights. Referred to by many as the “Studio 54 of roller rinks,” these parties thrived for several years. Then, as the popularity of skating began to fade, the space was revamped into a dance club in June 1982.
Hip hop pioneers such as Grand Mixer D.ST and Afrika Bambaataa began DJing there and the club sponsored breaking or b-boy/b-girl competitions featuring the Rock Steady Crew, Floor Master Crew New York City Breakers -
"Planet Rock" - Soulsonic Force
Soulsonic Force (also referred to as Afrika Bambaataa & Soulsonic Force) was an American electro-funk and hip hop ensemble led by Afrika Bambaataa who helped establish hip-hop in the early 1980s with songs such as "Planet Rock". -
Break Machine
From his real name, Keith Wayne Rodgers, Break Machine was born in Brooklyn, New York, USA in 1962. In his youth, under the excitement of the break dance of the 1970s and 1980s, he became passionate about street and is moving towards the MC and DJ career. He will juggle the activities of animator, singer, dancer and later producer to participate in the promotion of American rap and break dance. -
FlashDance
Flashdance, of course, didn’t invent breakdancing, but it was one of the first movies to popularize the street style and bring it to Middle America’s shopping malls. -
Mickael Jackson
In 1983, Michael Jackson started a craze when he glided across the floor during a performance of Billie Jean for a TV special called Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever. The audience was stunned: What WAS that anyway? It was the Moonwalk, baby, and it took the world by storm. It was one of the first moves that a fledgling breakdancer was required to learn. -
Style Wars
Style Wars is an American 1983 documentary film on hip hop culture and its American roots. The film has an emphasis on graffiti, although bboying and rapping are covered to a lesser extent. -
Crazy Legs
Crazy Legs is an American b-boy from the Bronx New York City, USA. He featured in the earliest stories on hip hop dancing to appear in mainstream press, and as president of the Rock Steady Crew brought the culture to London and Paris in 1983. -
Ice-T
A young Ice-T rapped back in 1984 for the film Breakin’ (released in some countries as Breakdance: The Movie). Check out the testosterone fueled dance-off! Awesome! -
Beat Street
Beat Street is one of the first movies dedicated to hip-hop, after Wild Style and Style Wars.
The Story ? A small group of young people from the Bronx want to break into the world of hip-hop. Kenny is a promising DJ, his little brother Lee is an excellent breakdancer, Ramon is a graffiti artist, and Charlie has given himself a managerial position for Kenny. -
The Last Poets
The Last Poets are several groups of poets and musicians who arose from the late 1960s African-American civil rights movement's black nationalism. The name is taken from a poem by the South African revolutionary poet Keorapetse Kgositsile, who believed he was in the last era of poetry before guns would take over.
American breakdancers have a lot of dancing on these musics. -
NIKE AIRMAX
The first Air Max was born in 1987. Very quickly appreciated by Breakdancers, it is now an integral part of the break culture. -
"Call my name" - Joe Bataan
Joe Bataan is an artist born in New York in the '40s and having been a great figure of the break culture. In 2005, he released "Call My Name", a real success used by all the culture break.
"Call my name
Before the setting sun and I'll appear
Call my name
And know that I'm the one who will appear" ...
Call my name : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBU1gnVWJJA
