Art and Style | December 10, 2007 | 4 comments

The answer to world unity yes, no maybe so. Welcome to Planet B-Boy

source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfq2Zwr0ABM

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I am so hyped about this documentary. This shows truly how hip-hop and breakdancing has the world connected more than some people will ever know.

"Think breakdancing died in the eighties? Think again. PLANET B-BOY is a feature-length, theatrical documentary that re-discovers one of the most incredible dance phenomena the world has ever seen. Originally known as "B-boying", breakdancing was an urban dance form that originated from the streets of New York City during the seventies. Along with Emceeing, Graffiti and DJing, B-boying served as one of the crucial elements in the birth of hip-hop culture in America. Through the help of movies like Flashdance, Breakin', and Beatstreet, breakdancing took the country by storm, and teenagers across America were spinning on their backs doing "windmills" and training their bodies to "pop and lock." Like most dance fads, however, breakdancing eventually faded into the annals of pop culture history. Three decades later, B-boying is back in full force and has evolved into an art form, reaching a level never seen before. The basic moves from the early eighties have developed into a highly sophisticated and unimaginably acrobatic dance form. PLANET B-BOY will take you inside the international, underground b-boy scene happening today in Japan, France, Germany, South Korea, and the United States. We will explore the most compelling stories and characters of five of the best b-boy crews from around the globe as they prepare to face off at the BATTLE OF THE YEAR - one of the most prestigious b-boy events in the world, held annually in Germany that serves as the World Cup of b-boying. Along the way, we will gain a poignant insight into their lives, their friends and families, and their unique cultural and social situations that drive them to devote their entire lives to the dance. At the BATTLE OF THE YEAR - our subjects will go head to head with crews from nineteen different countries in one of the fiercest dance competitions ever seen. Ten thousand screaming fans will witness their one shot at glory and see who will be crowned the best on PLANET B-BOY."
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4 comments // The answer to world unity yes, no maybe so. Welcome to Planet B-Boy // Video

  • daflew
  • ConditionedGoods
  • whatsthehapps
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      whatsthehapps  

    • this is intresting because bboying is a culture not just something you do for fun or as people know it spin on your head. but thiers more to breakin than spining on your head. it's a cultural movement,a way of life like soccer is to the rest of the world but not to america. It's funny because commercially speaking breakdancing was ceated here in the united states by blacks and puerto ricans in new yourk but still it doesn't get the recognition it deserves as being one of the first hip-hop elements. but in other places in the world it is used to make peace and not to fight but to dance your problems off your chest it's a way to express ones self without violence. It seems like in the states breaking is not respected because it's not apart of the main stream society like the other hip-hop elements such the raping and the dj. but breakin has been the blacksheep to the north american society. I say breaking is the only true hip-hop elemnet that won't be commercialized like raping, dj, and graffiti. it seems like the rest of the world is ahead of us.

    • 4 years ago
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