Tuesday, 15 February 2011

The difference between a set of acrobatic moves and an art form.

I started b-boying/break dancing around 2 years ago in senior year high school as a club activity. At first at did it cause my friends were there and I need to meet the school's requirement to earn enough extracurricular activities. I soon came around to love this form of dancing or even an form of dancing. What amazes me is that even bboys out there are still rocking out and holding up on college or even medical and law school.
Now bboy does have it's own fundamentals. Over the years it has evolved with many new moves. However many people who are amazed by it fail to see the art form behind it and are just amazed by flips. If you bring someone new to the scene to a jam and people cheer when the person moves to the beat or as we say it kills the beat, he would question why cheer when he didn't do any moves that involve flips or acrobatic feat.
Now I of course breaking still involves power moves. But it's still an art form and like all dances one should move to the music and digest it using his or her body. It takes one to accomplish and master a move but to be able to add your own style to your dancing is something one should master in breaking and any other art form like drawing, writing,etc. This allows one to express themselves and show others who you really are.

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