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Dance, Sport, Art Form, Social Movement, and more?
Can B-boying be a dance, sport, art form, social movement, and more?
That was pretty much the topic at hand during our interviews last weekend. As seen above, we interviewed a lot of people! It was a nice mixture of old and young; dance legends and rising stars; people who have diverse ideas on where the dance is going. I loved editing this video because it gave me chills. I grew up watching people like Crazy Legs and KwikStep dance, and to be doing a video with them? Someone smack me! Haha.
My favorite interview was probably KwikStep. If "wisdom" was in form of a dancer, it would be KwikStep. This guy was so intellectual talking to us, and he gave a lot of good analogies. He kept an open mind to the changing dance around us, from back then to now, and gave a very non-polarizing answer. I agree with him that the dance should progress, but there should always be options for people to choose.
This video was my first real attempt at making a "serious" style video. In the past, I would usually be goofing around with my videography, like asking crazy Halloween questions, giving Warheads candy, playing around with Michael Bay effects with Goofball, and more. I just wanted to experiment and show a different style of my video work, which is to make a very thoughtful discussion on a controversial topic. Did I succeed? Hopefully? The editing required a lot more work than I thought! I had to edit up each person's points just right, be cautious not to skew their original opinion, all the while make the overall conversation flow. It was harder than it looked!
One guy in the comments asked if I could transcribe the video with Korean subtitles. I had to snicker at that because, although I would love it in Korean, I simply do not have the time to do that. 20 film minutes of Korean subtitles?! That would take an entire day; not to mention I don't get paid for my work. Simply impossible at this moment in my life.
On a final note, there has always been the mainstream vs underground conversation in hip hop music. And that's been going on since the 80s, too. I see b-boying to be in a similar push & pull battle for many years to come.
Hip Hop Song of the Day:
K-OS - Dirty Water
Anonymous
March 13 2010, 23:28:50 UTC 2 years ago
Have your bboying and afford to eat too.
I really enjoyed the clip and I think you guys did a great job on this. I just want to share my perspective both as a BBoy and as someone with alot of friends that support themselves largely or completely off their dancing.Alot of the people you interviewed talked like bboying could either be an organized sport that pays the bills, or alternately, something fun that people do out of love and fun. Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods loved their games. I have alot of friends that are professional djs, professional graphic designers, professional musicians etc and for all of them, their work pays the bills and gives them personal satisfaction. I feel like the same can be true of bboying.
Right now there are only opportunities for a few street dancers to make a solid living only off their talent. I believe as the demand and appreciation grows from the public, dancers will do better and better. It's important to remember at the beginning of the NFL players got paid less than a hundred dollars a game, and even with inflation they've come a LONG way, with some players making over a quarter million PER GAME.
For this to happen in bboying, it has to break through more fully to be appreciated by the public, but that doesn't mean it has to be diluted, cheapened or sold out. The rolling stones played shows to millions of fans in sold out stadiums but they still embodied real rock and roll. If Junior was breaking in the olympics, or in an organized breaking franchise, he would still be dope and he'd still have fun.
Thanks for taking the time to hear my 2 cents.
Barry Rabkin / BBoy GRIZ http://www.CypherStyles.com