Break-dancing or B-boy was originated in New York during the very late 60's and became famous in the 70's and 80's. However, over the years, break-dancing has been inspired from all types of dances and martial arts, and it evolved as part of hip-hop culture. James brown was known as the godfather of break-dancing in 1969 with his great footwork on ‘Get on the Good Foot’.
By 1977, various break-dancing crews formed around New York City. Dancers would gather at different places and had their dance battles, challenges and contests. Unfortunately, there are black sheep where some break dancing battles start fights. They would use physical force when they lose to the opposing crew in a battle or not able to see eye to eye with one another. By doing so, they look more like a gang than a crew. But now there are no more fighting as break-dancing is becoming more popular and many people enjoy it by creating their own set of moves.
B-boy arrived into Singapore around 1984 through a movie ‘Breakdance The Movie’ follow by ‘Breakdance 2 Electric Boogaloo’ and lastly ‘Beat Street’. At that time, B-boy crew were associated as gang members which made them something like a secret society. Nowadays, the media has promoted b-boying in Singapore and it started to became popular and more mainstream.
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