Breaking of a New Era | Documentary

[@ripseven]

I am so proud to be able to witness in my life the evolution of Breaking and how far it has come. I was extremely grateful to have witnessed the birth of it right in my neighborhood Fordham Rd/Morris Ave where I was lucky enough to grow up with Legends like Spy, Trac2, Crazy Legs and Jimmy Lee just to name a few. However, what it has become now is just mind blowing. Thank you to all the new cats for taking interests and keeping it alive 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@frankspeaking]

Stoked to see breakin' still happening. I was there back in the day, before STN formed on the South Coast UK mid 80s. Such great times! 🤘

[@ArnaBBoy2010]

Awesome movie guys! I hope I will be able to contribute to my local community too.

[@STEPPIX]

You will brother 💪💪

[@RL-mm8ju]

Awesome film for the community ✊🏻🙏

[@ThatCarGuy1983]

I stopped watching when feminism was mentioned..

[@RL-mm8ju]

@@ThatCarGuy1983 I think we shouldn't be so radical. The film is not about it.

[@ThatCarGuy1983]

@@RL-mm8ju lol and likewise i think the film shouldn't be so "Radical" Ironic really.... 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@FosterMedia]

Thanks for the kind words brother.

[@FosterMedia]

@@ThatCarGuy1983 I'm sorry you got upset about that. It's not about feminism (I'm pretty sure that word isn't actually mentioned int eh film, I could be wrong though I did write and direct it) it just leans into a bit about how its included as a gender inclusive sport, its nothing to get your panties in a bunch about.

[@rayowens3350]

Dope!!! Thank you.

[@ipso9141]

movement never dies! Vibrate high!

[@svenijlife2376]

Amaizing! 🥰🥰

[@MarcusIllgren-lt1ge]

Im gonna start breaking again . Just for fun tho im 35 and haven't danced since 2013 2014 ...but once a bboy always a bboy if i practice i think it will come back but im bigger now so that can be a problem with flares airflare etc... But imma start slow with windmills headspin. ✌️

[@ricHarder]

Sbow us ur old videos airflares

[@MarcusIllgren-lt1ge]

@@ricHarder can u see what I wrote cause I can't see my response anymore? Anyways it's on tavla86 real deal family 2:33 I checked it now

[@MarcusIllgren-lt1ge]

​@@ricHarderdid u find it cause I wrote a long comment before the last one and it seems like it just disappeared ??

[@daniellouisemejorada5535]

Lezgedit! 🤟🏻❤️‍🔥

[@TokelauInTech]

Please don’t forget about break dancing roots. New York City and the minorities.

[@dreddthaseeker6492]

@@TokelauInTech if you haven't seen the little interviews NBC did with EAST COAST breakers, who did acknowledge it's new York roots, it seems to me that EVERYONE seems not to know about the originators of breakdancing and Hip Hop... #BlackSpades#ChollyRock

[@dsmusicarts]

Do you mean black people, right?

[@RavenDots115]

I honestly thought it was gonna be about New York. I’m from LA and there’s also breakdancing culture in the west coast. But everyone knows that it originated in New York City. It’s such a disservice to not show those roots. I wanted to see that story told. But once again, it’s watered down to a “random dance trend” that spread worldwide. It’s not random. It has its own unique history and beginnings. In NYC.

[@RavenDots115]

I remember vaguely hearing about its origins in a doc about NYC and they mentioned the black and Latino community’s blended cultures in creating breakdancing. Something was mentioned about capoeira dance influence brought by Brazilians. It was a short delve. I wanted to see a full doc about breakdancing developing in NYC. Especially from late 70s to early 80s. Idk why people keep overlooking NYC and its making of breakdancing. Those roots are essential. Especially after that Olympics disaster with the Australian dancer where they made breakdancing look like a joke. It’s not a joke when we see breakdancing from NYC 👏👏 and the west coast dance culture

[@dreddthaseeker6492]

@@RavenDots115 Well go look at the FULL and TRUE history of breaking AND Hip Hop. It's origins go back to the mid to late 60s, not the mid seventies. The mid seventies are the origin if what is now Hip Hop, but breaking was before that by about a decade. MichaelWaynetv and another channel have the interviews with Cholly Rock and other members of the Black Spades. They are the originators of breaking and there was NO LATINOS INVOLVED IN THAT. I repeat THERE WERE NO LATINOS INVOLVED IN THAT. They got involved later.

[@ryukim0275]

Salute! 💯🙌🔥

[@АнтонПустовой-в4б]

Breakin and hip hop culture ultimately its self way for self expression of youth. Its real art!

[@1on1AllstarsGames]

Its black culture not breaking dancing

[@Malpriorvids]

@@1on1AllstarsGamesB-boying is more of a Latin American culture, graffiti was predominantly Anglo Americans, DJing African American, and rap was an African American thing when combined with the other 3 elements. The only thing that connects the roots of the 4 elements of Hip Hop is America.

[@silvesterina]

🔥🔥🔥

[@the_trooper_72]

Why are people calling it breakdancing again.. Not bboying..???

[@STEPPIX]

We use different terms like Breaking, Breakdancing, and rarer Bboying or Bgirling.

[@the_trooper_72]

@@STEPPIX it's never been called bgirling.. I understand breakin thou..

[@dsmusicarts]

Because this isn't about bboying, but competition

[@reneecherrie]

It's the same thing

[@the_trooper_72]

@@reneecherrie erm.. Do some research..

[@koleszka2003]

olimpics?i am confused now

[@STEPPIX]

Right!) But that's great, Breakdance is very spectacular sport + at last dancers will start earning money.

[@Aylyrys]

🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@dreddthaseeker6492]

Not sure how I feel about this. Breakdancing is not a sport. Its dancing as one of the entertainment aspects of a culture. The battling aspect doesn't really belong in the Olympics. Its weird. And before anybody starts talking about exposure for the dance itself or the culture, remember that its been worldwide for over 40 years now. It doesn't need more exposure. There are breakdancers on every continent. Something about this doesn't seem right. I can't put my finger on it.

[@sanjayr]

Breaking being at the olympics every 4 years has no impact on the wider global scene when you think of just how many forces counteract whatever misconceptions exist. The ignorant will always exist but for those who possess knowledge and those who seek it, the truth of things is passed on both orally and through the living history of landmarks and events. It's totally fine to be worried about the culture and i'm not necessarily disagreeing with the sentiment but if breakin can survive the 80's and the downturn of the 90's, it can survive anything. It's always been first and foremost an underground scene that you don't just stumble on. I don't think that'll change or be negated by an Olympic event every 4 years that some people don't understand very well and form conceptions of.

[@dreddthaseeker6492]

@@sanjayr that's not what my problem is. I just can't explain what worries me about this. I can't really see anything bad happening because of this but, again, something just isn't feeling right TO ME, about this becoming an Olympic event. I just can't articulate what it is. A gut feeling. Oh, well. I'll enjoy it anyway.

[@dsmusicarts]

Cultural apropriation is what it is

[@reneecherrie]

Breaking is about ego, so to try to make it not about that would separate it from its essence.

[@zinzincoetzee1934]

Its so much more than that.

[@gaffle-411]

1:52 - 1:56… Bo0O! Let the B E S T compete and stop \/\/0KlNG everything up! 😡

[@FosterMedia]

So havving an equal number of competitors is a bad t thing?

[@gaffle-411]

There’s not an “equal number” of competitively good XX’s in breakdancing. We have eyes 👀’s. No one wants to see a bunch of watered-down power moves with freezes.

[@kendalgee5808]

Breaking didn't die. The moves got breathtakingly advanced. I don't think breaking will be mainstream after the 2024 olympics. If Parkour were in the olympics, most people wouldn't touch that sport with a 10 foot pole. You finna die. Street racing, breaking, parkour, bmx riding, it's never going to be mainstream. It a small subculture.

[@STEPPIX]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts, it's greatly appreciated. I think the radical changes are possible. Red Bull BC ONE has more than 3,5 million Facebook fans, surpassing more established sports such as the World Athletics (2,5M fans) or International Handball Federation.. I am not talking about Curling or Water Polo... That's not surprise, Breakdance is spectacular sport and this market is undergoing a stage of commercial transformation right now. Some street subcultures, such as skateboarding, surfing, have already passed the commercialization process.

[@bboyStuntZ]

I wouldn't be surprised that parkour made it to the Olympics. They already got American Ninja Warrior and that is basically parkour and calisthenics. A lot of people watch that

[@gabbar51ngh]

​@@bboyStuntZObstacle courses were a thing in military before even "Parkour" was coined. So it has high chance of growth all over the world if it becomes an Olympic sport. France would definitely push for it since they would get brownie points for inventing that sport.

[@gabbar51ngh]

I think the main reason is that coolness factor dies down once it becomes too wide spread. Somethings are only cool because they're niche. Skateboarding has become an Olympic sport and as nations start competing professionally like athletes do in other sports, the sub culture associated with it gets removed or changed. It's not some cool rebel culture anymore.

[@bboyStuntZ]

@@gabbar51ngh You already know

[@AngelGarcia-fg9es]

una nueva para el breaking!

[@zg-mzga]

does she dip?

[@anushup1333]

👍👍

[@AlekseiLight]

Breakdancing is silly term from mass media for other masses.

[@STEPPIX]

Yes but google Breaking and try to find something relevant.

[@AlekseiLight]

@@STEPPIX If You google "Breaking" now you'll see "breaking news", "breaking bad" and "breaking olympics". You should educate but not continue to confuse people. In the past breakdance (or weird word "breakdancing") include breaking, popping, boogaloo, locking, robot, kingtut. Now we have only breaking as synonim of breakdance, and many pro-dancers try to cancel word "breakdance" as old ancient termin, using only "breaking". But ordinary people are far from all of that and still think about breakdance like in the old days. They sounds similar, but has different meanings. If the video is called "breaking of a new era", then the title needs the same.

[@STEPPIX]

@@AlekseiLight Thanks for your strong opinion. We still use both terms - Breaking and Breakdancing, no crime in this to my mind.

[@DylanHunter07]

fuck this shit i hate breakdancing, Looks cool though!

[@pewpewbang9009]

W mom

[@whitelotus6449]

Feminist movement evolution?? Huh?

[@XanderReddick]

Heehee

[@Mr.Krimson]

Тут этот типок был из Казахстана? У которого брат близнец_или тут другой просто похож на него?

[@STEPPIX]

Да, прав, это Даулет в ролике.

[@vieshanblacksloft426]

Breaking has become commercialized and corporatized so now it's a money maker for the sponsors it's no longer pure just like hip hop sold out to the gate keepers it will never be the same like the pro ams in miami

[@STEPPIX]

Hi bro, thanks for your interesting opinion! Serfing, snowboarding, bmxing, skateboarding have already gone through commersalisation process and do you think athletes suffers? + I don't think Hip-Hop is a sport.

[@vieshanblacksloft426]

@STEPPIX breaking has become more gymnastics than dance in my opinion ..I seen it go from Rock or uprock to a level that is amazing

[@npc3po301]

@@STEPPIX A 'new era' is just basically saying 'it's ours now and we'll redefine it in a way that suits us', it's that (undeservedly confident and ambitiously tone-deaf) modern mentality that's killed the heart of the dance and separated it from its heritage, look how she (yes 'she') claims there's a feminist movement happening within the dance when - though there were always a handful of Bgirls around - the dance was primarily a male space and understood to be so, a tool to channel aggression creatively, like boxing, providing mentorship, apprenticeship etc. giving young men from poverty who were in many cases academically challenged or from bad domestic situations a sense of belonging, focus and esteem I've been around the dance for over 40 years, heavily active between 1982 - 2002, I saw how in the late 90s how all the old guard were ousted by the young ambitious 'dance teachers' that came and learned from them, I saw how they fiercely networked to gain funding to create their own soul-less events, how they courted corporations and dismissed/looked down on those who built this before them who saw the writing on the wall and tried in vain to maintain certain standards/ethics/unwrittens to preserve the wider culture, I heard the 'I'm not a 'Bboy I'm a this or that' from the lips of the highflyers in the scene preaching their disconnect from the culture, I saw the trailers of the latest hot guys with their EDM/Kpop soundtracks, I saw how the videos of the events were now being dubbed over with repetitive braindead copyright-free 'breakbeats' (which eventually replaced the original music we danced to altogether), eventually I saw it evolve from a scene where everyone once came together under one roof with one feeling to being in a Bboy jam feeling like I had nothing in common with practically everyone there, and now what? a dance that's been so prized away from the cultural herd that it's open to opportunists to nail whatever their political/gender cause flag to, an organic street dance that's now owned by Red Bullsh.. and Wack-donalds So now it's going to the olympics, and that wil be seen as progress, to who? maybe to those who benefit from that, back in 1984 the NYC Breakers challenged the US olympic team, but it wasn't just hubris it was these street guys saying we have everything you've got FOR FREE without needing to pay for your specialised equipment or jazzy arenas, it was a statement of a heart and soul operating outside of corporate control Am I bitter? I was for many years but you can only mourn the demise of something for so long before you just have to accept that what was the original beauty of something is never coming back and move on with your life Those who made it this far reading this will probably not like or get what I'm saying, most won't have even been born at the time when this dance was what it was, I can't/won't blame anyone for that, you do you and god bless but as far as I'm concerned I lived and loved the best times of the dance which - no matter how much money you throw at it will never be replaced