Yeah, I was actually a breakdancer, and I was very good.
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He laughed at Floyd's backpack, for God's sake, saying it looked like a breakdancer.
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Not to mention, it spawned three sequels, one of which starred Selena Gomez as a breakdancer.
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"Competition is the basis of all hip-hop culture," says longtime breakdancer Michael Holman, per NYT.
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A popular breakdancer, Bolaños was well-known not just in El Salvador but in international B-boy circles.
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My older brother was a breakdancer and at that time hip-hop and graffiti was basically all one unit.
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"Professional breakdancer" isn't on the résumé of most startup founders, but that was actually how Paglino got the idea for Tribe.
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Thankfully, the victim is OK. According to local ABC affiliate KMGH, that overzealous breakdancer turned out to be an off-duty FBI agent.
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Serouj Aprahamian (a breakdancer) even petitioned that the IOC who was known for ballroom dancing would have no idea how to run a breakdancing competition.
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Matthis tells me that he saw the original version on the Instagram feed of the handstander himself, Las Vegas–based Aussie breakdancer and athlete Simon Sterara.
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More than a year has passed since Seifeddine Rezgui, a student and wannabe breakdancer, smuggled a Kalashnikov onto Sousse's Boujaafar Beach in Tunisia and started firing.
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One of those is 24-year-old Israeli breakdancer Asaf, whom So You Think You Can Dance fans might recognize from the "Street" team in season 12.
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A breakdancer, Serouj Aprahamian, petitioned the I.O.C., claiming that the World Dance Sport Federation, known mostly for ballroom dancing, was not the right group to run breakdancing competitions.
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Nick Offerman is perhaps best known as the beloved Ron Swanson in Parks and Recreation, who is pretty much the last person you'd ever imagine to be a great breakdancer.
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Mounir, a famed breakdancer in France, told reporters in France that Paris 2024 could only help breakdancing — which started in the Bronx, New York, in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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The French breakdancer Anne Nguyen combines years of dance-battle experience with an avid interest in geometry — fields not as unrelated as they may sound — in her works for par Terre Dance Company, the Paris-based troupe she founded in 2005.
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Coming up, he'd been a breakdancer, a respected local DJ (as Kool Kurt), and then a program director for the radio station at the City College of New York, where he had enrolled in 1976 to study Speech Broadcasting and Communications.
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Cutting his teeth in New York's hip-hop scene as an aspiring breakdancer in the 90s, Peterkin would later break through in house music around 2006 under his Black Jazz Consortium alias, and later on with his Soul People label.
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Boutheîna El Alouadi, 24, a Tunisian rapper and breakdancer known by her stage name Medusa, seemed more optimistic about the new law's potential to ease the burden on recreational drug users, particularly a provision that offers community service as an alternative to prison.
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For example when I sent them a track of Affie Yusuf, and they sent back a video using scenes from Beat Street with all breakdancers and hip hop references in it without knowing that Affie used to be a writer and breakdancer before turning to house music.
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For Dr. Johnson, practicing a historically Black and African diasporic art form like hip-hop without paying homage to the foundations of that culture or delving into its history (she cites the example of calling yourself a breakdancer when you don't know Ken Swift) can quickly veer into disrespect.
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When we first dropped in on the lives of Ilana Wexler and Abbi Abrams back in the 2014 pilot of Broad City, the then-20163-and-26-year-olds, respectively, were drumming on buckets in Madison Square Park, trying to outshine a breakdancer to make enough money for Lil Wayne tickets.
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N.L." Stefon sketch: "phony 'fashion shows,' lap dancers from Jumbo's Clown Room, guys in dog suits performing pop-rock hits in Scooby-Doo voices; a twisted minstrel calling himself Mr. Banjo, who sat atop a 10-foot-high stool performing murder ballads and sea chanteys peppered with tasteless jokes about child molestation; and, of course, the Nude Breakdancer.
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Marcus Phillips is an American singer/songwriter, actor, filmmaker, and breakdancer.
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Roman Gorskiy (born August 25, 1985), known as Froz, is a competitive breakdancer born in Russia and raised in Italy.
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Cyril Paglino (b. 1986) is a French breakdancer, reality TV personality and IT entrepreneur who has founded and invested in several startup companies.
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After failing sentimentally, with his family and at school, Bahta, a 25 years old breakdancer, feels down and, due to the Iraq war, reconsiders his clandestine escape. A rebel and disobedient by nature, the leader of a little breakdancer band, accomplishes many fearless deeds provoking the police's anger. Wanted, he falls in with fundamentalists. The brainwashing process will not take place without mishaps.
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Curtis later performed as a breakdancer and competitively in rock 'n' roll dance competitions. He received his secondary education at Edmund Rice College, Rotorua.
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The advertisement, shown only outside the US, used CGI to mix footage of Gene Kelly, from Singin' in the Rain, with footage of professional breakdancer David Elsewhere.
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Yang Dong-geun (; born June 1, 1979) or YDG is a South Korean actor, rapper, singer-songwriter, record producer and breakdancer. Yang majored in Theatrical Performance at Yong-In University.
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Yun has a brother named Johnathan, who is a professional breakdancer. He also has a daughter named Jazmine. He owns a professional wrestling school called Pro Training, LLC. located in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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The origin of this usage is unknown, although it is hypothesized to have originated with certain Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles action figures, for example, "Football Player! Leonardo", "Rockstar! Raphael", and "Breakdancer! Michelangelo".
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News1 (March 21, 2014). Retrieved on March 21, 2014. On July 31, 2014, famous breakdancer and recording artist Nam Hyun-joon and his wife Park Aeri joined the company.팝핀현준·박애리 부부, 달샤벳 소속사와 전속계약.
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Movies wrote Whitehead was raised "in an artistic household". Growing up, he dreamed to be a breakdancer. He began acting at the Orange Tree Theatre when he was 13 years old. Later he went to Orleans Park School.
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The former breakdancer, graffiti writer and closet-emcee finally began to take his career path seriously at age 16, using hip hop to both understand and explain his world."Profile: Gabriel Teodros" by Alison Isaac. Sheeko Magazine. July 2008.
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Ana Garcia (born 1971), better known by her stage name Rokafella, is a breakdancer, dance teacher, poet, musician, and entrepreneur. She has been credited as being a female break dance pioneer and influencing the new generation of B-Girls and B-Boys.
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In 2010, he had a cameo appearance in Diary of a Wimpy Kid as a breakdancer. He made appearances in Made: The Movie and Meteor Storm. He had a recurring role in Mr. Young as Hutch. He was in another TV movie, Mega Cyclone, as Will Newamr.
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Robin Deiana (born July 18, 1990) is a French-Italian television personality, actor, model and breakdancer who lives and performs in South Korea. He was a cast member of the talk show Non-Summit. He is also currently a host of the TV show The Most Beautiful Days.
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Various bioinformatics tools can be used to analyze end- sequence profiling. Common ones include BreakDancer, PEMer, Variation Hunter, common LAW, GASV, and Spanner. ESP can be used to map structural variation at high-resolution in disease tissue. This technique is mainly used on tumor samples from different cancer types.
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In Brooklyn, Angel is a breakdancer who lives with her mother Gabby. Her abusive boyfriend Hector won't accept that she wants to break up. One night Angel and her best friend Rosie trade hats and jackets and Hector fatally stabs Rosie thinking she is Angel. When he realizes his mistake he stabs Angel too.
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Boyd is an accomplished breakdancer. He appeared in modern dance productions choreographed by Steen Koerner and in a post-apocalyptic dance version of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book. With New Politics Boyd is known for his exotic dancing on stage and even "creating" a dance move called "Boyding", which involves standing on one's head otherwise known as the headstand.
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According to the 2014 documentary Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films, Menahem Golan of Cannon Films was inspired to create this film after his daughter saw a breakdancer perform in Venice Beach, California. Golan pressured the production crew to complete the film before Orion Pictures released their breakdancing film Beat Street. Erik Abbey was the choreographer for the breakdancing scenes.
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Marco Fiorito known as Kaos One, Don Kaos, Dottor K, Ahmad or simply Kaos (born June 11, 1971 in Caserta) is an Italian rapper, beatmaker, writer. He began his career in 1986 in Milan, first as a breakdancer and writer, then as MC, first in English and then in Italian. Kaos One is acknowledged as one of the forerunners of Italian Rap.
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1982), 50; and Kim Fritzemeier, Hutchinson News (13 May 1984), 144. Her first leading role was in Ninja III: The Domination, the shooting for which took place in 1983. In May 1984, Dickey appeared in the role of jazz dancer turned breakdancer Kelly in Breakin' and its sequel, Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo (Dec. 1984). Next came the horror flick Cheerleader Camp, in 1987.
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Yassine Alaoui Ismaili (), known as Yoriyas, is a Moroccan photographer and breakdancer based in Casablanca, Morocco. As a photographer, Yoriyas specializes in street photography. He started with photography in 2007, when his dance crew, Lhiba Kingzoo, was invited to perform in Salzburg, Austria. He bought a simple camera from a flea market to share photos of the trip with family.
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During the latter's performances, the backdrops displayed mathematical equations along with DNA helixes rushing through the screens. A remix interlude of "Hollywood" featured a breakdancer, a firedancer, a bellydancer, a tapdancer and a skateboarder. The screens displayed animations of the Rider-Waite tarot cards. The interlude was followed by a Cabaret-like performance of "Hanky Panky", which started the Circus act.
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Spring Fest 2019 again had a number of international guests to show off their skill and interact with the crowd. These include Scalia, basketballer from Malaysia; Extra Crunchy, Graffiti Artist Duo from Israel; Bruno Eddie, Portuguese Fire Artist; Sophie von Metern, Swedish Musician; Cis Bakelijia, Breakdancer from Belgium; Daniel, Spanish Beatboxer; Anders, a Danish guitarist; and The Order of Chaos, a Canadian metal band.
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Malek Brahimi (also known as Abdelmalek Sultan), better known by his stage name Freeman, is a French hip hop artist and breakdancer. He was a member of the successful hip hop group IAM together with Akhenaton, Shurik'n, Khéops, Imhotep, and Kephren. He has also worked as a solo artist and an actor. Freeman lives in Marseille, but says that he is above all an Internationalist.
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The video is set in a back alley and warehouse in London. It begins with a goblin (played mainly by Daniel Ilabaca), who jumps out of a wheelie-bin, and starts dancing. His dancing takes him out of the alley and up onto the nearby rooftops, then into a theatre. The goblin begins breakdancing (now played by Pockemon crew breakdancer, Lilou) on the stage.
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The season had an average audience of 3,657,000 viewers. The final was watched by 3.7 million people, and the largest audience was 4.2 million viewers, during the first semi-final. The winner of the season was dance group Les Échos-Liés, who received €100,000 and the opportunity to go on tour with magician Arturo Brachetti. The runner-up of the season was breakdancer Skorpion.
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After leaving his adoptive home as a teen, Pilatus worked as a model and breakdancer, and appeared as a backing singer with the group Wind at the 1987 Eurovision Song Contest in Brussels. (The band finished in second place.) He met Fabrice Morvan on the dance scene in Munich in 1988, and after working as models, they decided to form the pop group Milli Vanilli.
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Wil-Dog, also sometimes called "Breakdance Willy" as he is an accomplished breakdancer, is of Jewish descent. His father was in the Revolutionary Communist Party, and he was raised mostly by his grandparents. From an early age, he saw, first-hand, police violence, racism, and anti-Semitism. He dropped out of high-school in the 11th grade and spent all his time stealing, smoking marijuana, and living out of his car.
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Issei is widely regarded by many as the best Japanese breakdancer currently and in the eyes of some, the best worldwide. Female bboys, or “bgirls”, are also prevalent in Japan and following the introduction of a female BC One competition in 2018, Japanese bgirl Ami Yuasa became the first female champion. Notable Japanese bboy crews include FoundNation, Body Carnival, Floorriorz, and the Heima. Notable Japanese bgirl crews include Queen of Queens, Body Carnival, and Nishikasai.
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Tommy Tee was first introduced to hip hop culture in the 1980s. He started as a graffiti artist and breakdancer, and later became moved on to music through DJing. He has been a radio and club DJ since mid 80´s - something that sparked his interest in music production. In 1989, Tee started Norway's first hip hop magazine Fat Cap which has been amongst the world´s big graffiti magazines with international distribution.
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Original band members included vocalists Kris, Klyopa, Dan (Andrey Kotov), Raf and music producer Mutabor (Pavel Galkin). Adamov then asked Dolphin (Andrey Lisikov), a famed breakdancer, apprentice song-writer and a friend of Dan to write some lyrics for the group. Dolphin was satisfied with his fee, so when Mutabor couldn't practice in group's first tour because of his wedding ceremony, Dolphin agreed to substitute him. He effectively joined Malchishnik in the summer of 1991.
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Kickin' It Old Skool is a 2007 American comedy film directed by Harvey Glazer and written by Trace Slobotkin. The film's cast includes Jamie Kennedy, Bobby Lee, Maria Menounos, Michael Rosenbaum, and Vivica A. Fox. This movie was released on April 27, 2007 and grossed $2.49 million in its opening weekend. The movie is about a young breakdancer who hits his head during a talent show and slips into a coma for twenty years.
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Enzo Celli is an acclaimed dancer, choreographer and educator. Born in Sora, Italy, Celli received formal training as a breakdancer at the age of 19, and continued his studies as a self-taught artist. Celli's eagerness to learn later earned him a bachelor's degree in Human Movement Sciences from the Faculty of Psychology eCampus of Novedrate in Milan, Italy. Celli's artistic abilities and choreographic visions were supported and encouraged by renowned Italian arts critic, Vittoria Ottolenghi.
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In order to become one of the judges, she had spent much time and effort, also had a small vocal cord surgery. In 2012, she won Favorite Female Singer award at HTV Award. She is also the judge of Centaur Dance Showdown - an international dance competition. She was invited to the show where Vietnam team competed with other teams from different countries, along with Singaporean hip hop dancer Sheikh Haikel and famous Japanese breakdancer Katsuyuki Ishikawa.
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In 1985, Fetuga and his childhood friends formed Cash Crew, he left Holland Park School before his A-levels when they were signed to Virgin Records and BMG France. He was a DJ, producer, breakdancer and graffiti artist as well as a rapper, known at the time as Rakin da Authordox aka Trim. Fetuga converted to Islam along with the others members. and in 1992, the group recorded the first ever Islamic rap song "The Provider".
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Ali Ramdani (1984), better known by his stage name Lilou, is an Algerian- French b-boy breakdancer. He is part of the French crew Pockemon Crew and the all-star team LEGION X. Since the beginning of his career in 1999 he has won many international prizes, both with his crew and as a solo dancer. He has had a black belt in Kung Fu since he was sixteen. He practices Islam and can speak Algerian-Arabic, French and English.
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As an MC, B-boy and breakdancer from the seminal hip hop group Black Noise, Emile united a generation of youth during the fall of apartheid in the tumultuous eighties and nineties. Emile participated in anti-apartheid protests and school boycotts during his youth, getting shot at by police and witnessing the death of friends fighting to overthrow South Africa's oppressive government. Emile now practices more subversive activism in his community, creating a conscious culture through breakdancing workshops, events and b-boy competitions.
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D.J. Mek (winner of 5 Irish Disco Mix Club titles) had met Rí-Rá and Dada Sloosh working in Tullamore's pirate radio station Kiss F.M. in 1987. All three were involved in earlier rap groups (DaBadaPak and Noiz.Inc) but joined forces in 1990 and recruited Dublin breakdancer Mr. Browne as hypeman and second vocalist. In 1991 they recorded their early demos in RadioActiv Studios, Bray, which included a Hip Hop reworking of Linton Kwesi Johnson's protest song "Fite Dem back".
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Magalona was the eighth of the nine children of actors Pancho Magalona and Tita Duran, popular film stars of the 1940s and 1950s. His grandfather, Enrique B. Magalona, was a politician and served as a Senator of the Philippines from 1946 to 1949 and from 1949 to 1955. He graduated from high school at the Don Bosco Technical College in Mandaluyong City from 1978 to 1981 and studied at the San Beda College in Manila from 1981–1984. Magalona started out as a breakdancer in the 1980s.
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Konishi is a breakdancer and has also appeared on So You Think You Can Dance in seasons one, two, and three. In season two Konishi nearly made it to the final twenty, but with only a student visa, he was unable to be legally employed in the United States, which resulted in his dismissal from the program. Subsequently, he obtained a work permit and became eligible to participate in the competition in Season Three. He was voted off the show by the judges on July 19, 2007.
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In August 2013, Zawacki created a time-relative stencil titled 'Timing Is Everything' in London, England. The colorful stencil painted on the side of a wall depicted a break dancer positioned upside down, with his arm extended downwards. At night, the context of the stencil is 'activated' by the street light, thus creating a shadow of the nearby street pole directly onto the wall. The stenciled breakdancer is now seen in a newer context of balancing himself on top of the street sign's shadow.
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Breakdance manufactured by Müller & Sohn Breakdancer oHG, Frankfurt A few of HUSS' rides include the Breakdance, Top Spin, Shot'n Drop, and Frisbee. Breakdance was developed and built in 1985 by HUSS Rides and there are now four variants, of which over 100 have been installed worldwide—46 of them in Germany. HUSS also offers a range of "Giant Rides" which are aimed to fill the gap between thrill rides and roller coasters. From 1981 to 1985, during its merger with Arrow, Arrow Huss built roller coasters.
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Brahimi was born in Algiers, Algeria on 9 May 1972, and has lived most of his life in the district of Belsunce, in Marseille. At first, when IAM was formed in 1988, Brahimi worked with them as a breakdancer under the alias Abdelmalek Sultan, but he soon started rapping and appearing on the group's albums. In 1999, he published his first solo album, L'palais de justice. Freeman also appeared as an actor in Comme un aimant, a 2000 film by fellow IAM member Akhenaton and Kamel Saleh.
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Alexey had been a breakdancer and a fan of U.S. hip-hop. He worked as a lathe operator and sculptor when, in 1993, he met Magia. She had spent four years performing with an Afro-Cuban dance troupe and had earned a communications degree before she too became a sculptor. In 2003, they embarked on a month-long tour of the United States, culminating in a historical performance at the Apollo Theatre, sharing the stage with The Roots, with a fan base including Harry Belafonte, Afrika Bambaata and Mos Def.
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Jonah and his friends spend the majority of their free time breakdancing in the school's amphitheatre, which adds tension to a rivalry Jonah has with a year 7 breakdancer called Keiran McKenna. Jonah and his friends Ofa, Joseph, Leon and Thomas enjoy punking fellow students and teachers. With help from his friends, Jonah planned and acted in a prank where he was run over by a teacher driving a car. Previously, Jonah threw a year 7 student's bag over the train line; when confronted he claimed that he was only punking him.
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He was assisted by twin cheerleaders and sisters Jacqueline "Jackie" and Samantha "Sammi" Forrest, who each cheered for one of the teams, and the announcer. John "Tiny" Hurley announced for both syndicated seasons and actor/breakdancer Michael "Boogaloo Shrimp" Chambers, referred to on air as "MC Mike", replaced him when the show moved to Fox in 1990. British Knights was a major sponsor of the show, and every contestant and cast/crew member (including Roth) wore a pair of the company's shoes. This was later changed to La Gear.
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Aki (Bobby Lee) is an accountant, and has lost his old stereotypical Asian accent thanks to English classes. In addition, Aki is also trying to woo a colleague (Kira Clavell), who claims he might have a 2% chance of sleeping with her if he were a professional breakdancer. Hector (Aris Alvarado) is now a meter maid, and is even more overweight than he was in school. Despite their reluctance to return to the '80s lifestyle, they agree to try to retrain their faded breakdancing skills to help Justin.
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A breakdancer performing in Schildergasse, Cologne, 2017 Breaking, also called breakdancing or b-boying/b-girling, is an athletic style of street dance from the United States. While diverse in the amount of variation available in the dance, breakdancing mainly consists of four kinds of movement: toprock, downrock, power moves and freezes. Breakdancing is typically set to songs containing drum breaks, especially in hip-hop, funk, soul music and breakbeat music, although modern trends allow for much wider varieties of music along certain ranges of tempo and beat patterns. Breaking was created by the African American youth in the early 1970s.
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The video for "Fight for Love" premiered on AOL Music on May 1, 2009. AOL Music’s PopEater blog describes it as “what might be the world's coolest scavenger hunt”.Elliott Yamin 'Fights' for His Love in New Video The video intercuts scenes of Yamin singing as he descends an ornate staircase with scenes of a young woman receiving a series of cards that lead her to an encounter with a magician (Farrell DillonMagician comes home for Salinas benefit - Monterey Herald) and a breakdancer (one of the members of SuperCr3w) and concludes at the Los Angeles Theater. The theater marquee displays “Fight for Love”.
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Born in Camden, Allsopp grew up listening to dance music including breakdance, electro hip hop and house. An amateur breakdancer at eight, he started DJing at the age of 15 and he soon became submerged in DJ culture and UK garage.BBC Blast interview with Just Jack After completing a degree in Furniture Design at Kingston University, he enrolled in a community music production course, so that he could better his awareness of sampling and its potential for use. He went on to practice on perfecting his sound by night and to take on a series of jobs by day.
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The discography of American hardcore rapper, record producer, actor and author Fredro Starr, best known as a member of multi-platinum hardcore rap group Onyx, consists of 4 solo studio albums, 2 compilation albums, 4 soundtrack albums, 14 singles. In 1984, Fredro Starr started as a breakdancer, he goes by the name Magic. In late 1985 Fredro Starr decided to become a street poet under the name Kool Fredro. In 1988, after graduating from school at the age of 17, Fredro Starr created the rap group Onyx along with his schoolmates Big DS and Suavé (also known as Sonny Seeza).
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The second semi-final would have opened with a performance by breakdancer Redo. The final would have been opened with a flag parade, introducing all twenty-six finalists, accompanied by music produced by 15-year-old DJ Pieter Gabriel. A symphony orchestra of sixty-five young musicians from across the Netherlands, specifically formed for this occasion, was scheduled to perform in the final, together with DJ Afrojack and singer Glennis Grace, the latter who had represented the Netherlands in the 2005 contest. This interval act would have also featured forty dancers and a twenty-five-piece gospel choir.
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2014 saw the park purchase a traveling Twister ride, named Cyclone, which was added to the park that year replacing Breakdancer. The 2015 season saw two-new rides added to the park - Jurassic Safari, and a pirate-ship themed Galleon ride. In 2016 a new roller coaster replacing the Klondike Gold Mine, which is called Runaway Mine Train, originally located at Gulliver's World as the Wild Mine Ride. In June, the park added a new Snake Helter-Skelter ride replacing the old one, and the Super Dragon returned after refurbishment with a new dinosaur theme and name; Funlandosarus.
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Black Madam (real name: Padge-Victoria Windslowe, born Forrest Gordon) is a gothic rapper, unlicensed cosmetic surgeon, and former brothel madam from the United Kingdom, currently on trial for allegedly killing a London breakdancer, Claudia Aderotimi, with an unsafe buttocks injection. The injection involved low-grade industrial silicone, which reportedly leaked through Aderotimi's blood into her liver, brain, and lungs. Windslowe has reportedly also performed buttocks injections on a large number of celebrity clients including Amber Rose and "a lot of girls from VH1". Madam testified that Rose was "like a walking billboard" and that Windslowe was referred to as "the Michelangelo of butt injections".
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A crew of heroes is determined to save the lost arts of hip hop: break dancing, graffiti, MCing, and DJing from total extinction. The lost arts are being oppressed throughout inner-space by lord Ook and his evil minions the Chinheads. DJ and dentist The Dental Commander, graffiti artist Honey Drips, robotic MC Rubbish, and breakdancer Grandpa have a series of adventures, synchronized to the music. Armed with the ancient relic known as the Wave Twister (a small turntable/wristwatch, the only weapon powerful enough to defeat the enemies), they travel to the far ends of inner- space for a final confrontation with the sinister army of oppressors.
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A campaign to audition young men with abilities in dancing and singing followed and took place in Manchester and other surrounding cities in 1990. At 22, Howard Donald was one of the oldest to audition, but he was chosen after he got time off work as a vehicle painter to continue the process. Prior to auditioning, Jason Orange had appeared as a breakdancer on the popular television programme The Hit Man and Her. Martin-Smith also selected 18-year-old bank employee Mark Owen and finally 16-year-old Robbie Williams to round out the group, which initially went by the name Kick It.
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Gooding's first job as an entertainer was as a breakdancer, performing with singer Lionel Richie at the closing ceremonies of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. After high school, Gooding studied Japanese martial arts for three years, before turning his focus toward acting. Early on, he landed guest starring roles on shows like Hill Street Blues (1987), Amen (1988) and MacGyver (1988, 1989 and 1990) and also had a small part in the popular comedy Coming to America (1988). Gooding's first major role was in John Singleton's inner-city crime drama Boyz n the Hood (1991), in which he played the lead, Tre Styles.
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Although hip hop galsen is now famous for its diverse musical productions, the movement there spread out from its dancing appeal rather than from its musical one. Indeed, Senegalese hip hop artists initially participated in this movement as smurfer, breakdancer, B-boy in general performing during organised podiums. Schools, nightclubs and other temporary public stages thus played an essential role in amplifying this movement in Dakar. Besides, and in contrast to American hip hop, which grew from the youth in the inner city ghettos, hip hop in Dakar began among a somehow middle-class youth who was able to access and/or introduce in their home place new ideas and new cultural expressions coming from abroad.
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Kangol Kid was originally a breakdancer along with his dance partner, Doctor Ice. In 1984, UTFO became one of the most popular rap and breakdance acts in the country on the strength of their breakout single, "Roxanne, Roxanne." During the mid-80s, as "Roxanne, Roxanne" gained popularity and chart position, UTFO was voted best rap group, at the 1988 Urban Music Awards, had featured spots on Don Cornelius' Soul Train, The Phil Donahue Show, and performed live for actors such as Dustin Hoffman, and Tony Danza. UTFO was the first rap group to perform at Harlem's Apollo Theater as they opened for Hall & Oates and the Temptation's Eddie Kendricks and David Ruffin.
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Luckily, as his college is near AGHS, Shun returns to the club to continue his role as the Powerdizer pilot, but mostly coaches JK in his new duties. JK is also known to be a skilled breakdancer, which is especially noted during the fight with the Pegasus Zodiarts when he successfully uses his moves to dodge a powerful kick. He also incorporates that same style whenever he pilots the Powerdizer. During his second year in AGHS, JK creates the alias of DJ Gene to set up an internet radio show called DJ Gene Milky Night Carnival as a means to live out his dream of becoming a rock star, but the show becomes more popular than he expects.
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In the summer of 1991 The Quiddlers performed in Monaco's elite "Sporting Club" (run by the Société des Bains de Mer, or SBM) as one of three variety acts within a one-hour program of singing and dancing. The Quiddlers were booked for the entire season along with rotating acts like extreme magician Rudy Coby from LA, seventh generation circus acrobats, The Nicolodis from Paris, and visual comedian and Montréal native Michel Lauzière. The following summer, they performed in Stuttgart, Germany's "Theatre Varieté" alongside acts including Kai Eickermann, an award winning European breakdancer, Team Rosa, internationally renowned athlete/acrobats, and the KGB Klowns, a Ukrainian duo who were classically trained as professional clowns in the former Soviet Union. In 1993, Altman and Lewis left the group to pursue other creative careers; writing and graphic design, respectively.
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During his callback, the director, writer, and casting director are thrilled at Bobby's performance, and he wins the lead role. He then begins to experience attacks of conscience that manifest as daydreams based on what people around him are saying or doing, including one ("Black Acting School") where white coaches teach black performers how to act "more black", and one ("Sneaking into the Movies") where two young black men gain entry to a theater without paying and review films that spoof popular titles à la At the Movies, including Amadeus Meets Salieri, Chicago Jones and the Temple of Doom, Dirty Larry, and Attack of the Street Pimps. At home, Bobby is celebrating with his girlfriend Lydia (Anne-Marie Johnson) when his grandmother arrives. The three of them watch a film noir, which causes Bobby to fantasize about playing the lead in his own film noir, Death of a Breakdancer.
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Sha-Rock is the first female emcee-rapper of hip hop culture "on wax" or record on vinyl from its inception in the 1970s. She began as a local b-girl, or breakdancer, in the earliest days of South Bronx hip hop scene and culture in the late 1970s. The Funky 4 + 1, Sha-Rock being the plus one, had their first significant hit with the 12-inch single "Rapping and Rocking the House" on Sugarhill Records (1979) as well as "That's the Joint" (1980) which both appeared on national television. As an early pioneer affiliated with the Zulu Nation, MC Sha-Rock inspired a style of rapping emulated and made notable by Run DMC called the "echo chamber". In 2010, Green published a book about her experiences titled “The Story of the Beginning and End of the First Hip Hop Female MC: Luminary Icon Sha-Rock.” She wrote this book about her life, and her impact that was felt in many aspects.
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Ice-T was prominently featured as both a rapper and a breakdancer in “Breakin’ ‘n’ Enterin’” (1983), a documentary about the early West Coast Hip Hop scene. Ice-T's first film appearances were in the motion pictures, Breakin' (1984), and its sequel, Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo (1984). These films were released before Ice-T released his first LP, although he appears on the soundtrack to Breakin. He has since stated he considers the films and his own performance in them to be "wack". In 1991, he embarked on a serious acting career, portraying police detective Scotty Appleton in Mario Van Peebles' action thriller New Jack City, gang leader Odessa (alongside Denzel Washington and John Lithgow) in Ricochet (1991), gang leader King James in Trespass (1992), followed by a notable lead role performance in Surviving the Game (1994), in addition to many supporting roles, such as J-Bone in Johnny Mnemonic (1995), and the marsupial mutant T-Saint in Tank Girl (1995).
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In 1998, Plum began assembling the Ebola Music Orchestra, a ten-piece ensemble including a horn section, strings and accordions as the means of performing songs from Anthology of Infection in a concert setting, with Plum serving as the musical director as well as switching off between guitar, keyboards, xylophone and various unique instruments. The original incarnations of the Ebola Music Orchestra featured numerous performers with physical deformities. "I am equally fascinated by people who are different but not because they are shocking or weird, but because they are beautiful", Plum explained, "I love talented people who embrace the things that make them different from the rest of the world". At one point, the orchestra was to be featured on the 2000 NBC revival of the human interest series You Asked For It, but NBC executives quickly pulled the plug on the segment out of concern it would be too controversial for prime time television (Plum speculated that it was "Gerome, the legless thalidomide- baby breakdancer" which broke the deal).
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