Break Dance Contest Live at the Roxy 1983 ( History Oldschool )

from the Roxy with host Leslie Aams, plus New York hotties Carlos Deus and celebrity judges including Broadway stars Anita Moris, the American football player, Hersel Walker and all my kids, Debbie Morgan and Darnell Williams , and now lesie ugs. Hello everyone and welcome to the final of the great opportunity.

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competition and tonight you will see some of the best

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rs, the groups that came out on top out of over 600

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ants and this is the night our finalists have been waiting for, they filled the Roxy for three Sundays to compete for the perfect prize $2500 cash an appearance on New York's hottest dance floor and a role in the new movie Beach Street our judges will have a hard time choosing the winner, but before we start let's talk to our wktu keynote ceremonies caros De Jesus , who knows all about

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dancing a bit uh lesli break dancing is a bit like jazz where you improvise around some basic moves and you don't really come out solo, you don't come out in front, unless you really know what you're doing, I can relate to that, I know, let's see a little, for the Boogie, bang boogie, the Boogie, I know now what you, he's not a test, I'm on the beat. and me the group and my friends are going to try to move your feet with ah the H al don't stop the rock the B say up JP the Boogie al of the boogie whether it started in the Bronx back in 1975 violent The street gangs were disappearing because there were Too many children dead or in jail.

A teenager named Africa Bamba started the Zulu Nation projects on the Bronx River. It was a new type of gang that focused on music and dancing. The neighborhood kids were called Cru. and challenge each other in wild acrobatic feats called break dancing, the first youth culture since the 1960s, placed a lot of importance on individual imagination and the hip-hop generation was born. If you

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or work in New York City, you may recognize a form of street art that They call it hip-hop, it's a rap problem for the hippop, like poetry shouting on portable radios known as boxes, it's graffiti in clothes, in murals and, unfortunately, in the subway, and it's break dancing where children spin around and around like a top on a piece of cardboard is really something else it's what a body can really do it's amazing This is a new kind of art form I wish I could be so loose today Africa Bambata still

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s in the Bronx He's an international recording star A role model for thousands of the city's youth It's something to release their pressure, you know, instead Instead of going out to fight, they could go out and break dance against other different groups.

The whole culture called hip hop started in western BRS with a DJ called Cool DJ. she then crossed the southern and southeastern boundaries I drew Africa bamboo but now it has gone from the Browns to Manhattan throughout the United States it is now internationally known hip hop on top my love begins to go down hip-hop is now very fashionable since the movie Flash Dance Break dancing has appeared in commercials, music videos, nightclubs and all over the media. For many of these kids, break dancing is a dream. It's a way to get off the streets like sports.

It's a way to be someone. My dream. en It will be a hit to go to Hollywood to see all the movie stars chilling with them, you know, the same way they chill with the Chosen Few. Harry Bellante's new film about the Bronx called Beach Street may make that dream come true. Hollywood has invaded his community. Hollywood has arrived. He approached them and told them we want what they have. It seems like break dancing is just family entertainment. We'll be back in a moment for some highlights from the prelims. warm-ups and enough energy to light up Time Square, that's what it was like here at the Roxy for the preliminaries of the big break dancing

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The Roxy is a famous roller disco, but it is also the most important break dance club in New York. floor that appears as big as a football field, enough space for a contest that has attracted dancers and fans from all five burrows of Long Island and New Jersey. Everyone had the opportunity to participate by sending a postcard to wktu FM, the sponsors of the contest. chosen by random drawing, the contestants danced for up to 3 minutes and were judged on originality and costume performance and that was the hard one, you try to figure out which of these windmills and throwbacks is the best, no, no, no, do it or how about the hand?

Slide, the group names were almost as original as their movements, the body mechanics, General Electric, the dynamic rocket of 1965, to look like a character straight out of science fiction or your favorite computer game and spin on your knees, spin with your hands and give it a A couple more years and break dancing can be an Olympic event now that there is a group of beginner dynamic Breakers, let's go to the bitches and find out how they combine their routines. Let them know that the Dynamic Breakers are among the favorites in this contest that they want. take a break from dancing in Greater Heights and they just might be the right group to do it with.

Look, you can't get there as soon as you land. Look, you land. A good break doesn't happen by chance, it takes a lot of talent and hard work to get there like him. Airborne dynamic breakers cone spider deuce and flip are what they call completely down, in other words, they have mastered the moves and are proud of it. What makes us special to many other groups is that we all specialize in one thing like each of us. We have something special to do, my specialty in the group is a flexibility movement, that's why I called myself Spider, my friends call me Airborne, The reason is that my special talent as a group is that I make gymnastics into a break dance, so everything.

If I had done most of my tricks in the air and came back to the ground, we accepted this with the team because we thought we needed something spectacular like we would have to get any other normal switch. He would like to do something similar to what I do, but it would look the same now he says here it spins on its head it spins on its head constantly like a top that makes it special and we like the special talent in our group this is B Pizzeria and Jamaica Queens were almost any day after school.

I could find a dynamic pause to relax. At first I danced for a reason. I started dancing because I really thought that this would prove that I can become popular and all that, but I didn't really want that, but. It just happened, so the reason I really want to dance now is to move from hip-hop to pop culture. This is a dance full of emotion that takes people to the most extreme joy. It can be a lot of fun, but. It is a dance with difficult steps and stylized movements in rock, it is like fighting with another person but without touching, it is very important in Breaking, but you have to work with your feet, or up and down, now he is doing footwork from the bottom, now it's in a basic move called Baby swipes, then the actual moves float and then at the end it freezes, gets up, leaves the same way it came in. wow Electric Boogie consists of many different styles like this, it's called waves like this when you move your body. like this or you can dial like this it's called tick or you could make the robot like this our dream is to form a corporation, a dance school, you know, we would like this dance to continue into the future like jazz ballet.

I know that kind of thing goes on for years and years. You know enough to rock. We get in. Feel like you are FR. Stay at home. but you have to give it to the people who do it just on your back and spin on your knees, spin on your hands and shock for free, better luck next time guys, kind, try next with the best of switches. I don't think I said that, but before we meet them, let's meet our judges, our first judge, former New York nickname, what's everyone saying, earol? The Pearl Monroe, now the next lady, she plays Angela Baxa on All My Children and you know the guy Jesse Hubard.

Debbie Morgan and Darnell Williams and the sexy Italian next to them is Aello, the owner of Disco Fever, the club where rap and breaking began, an Emmy Award-winning investigative reporter and WABC TV host, John Johnson, very well, the sexy lady right next door. for John it's Anita Morris, she knocked him out in Broadway play nine. Lester Wilson choreographed Saturday Night Fever right now he's working on some new moves for the new break dance movie Beach Street and right next to him, a very quiet but very talented guy, put it on. put that record out you're a good girl he's so much better okay Lil Thomas for the New Jersey Generals he won the Highman Trophy this guy is bad Herel Walker and now the other stars of the show the finalists there were 16 groups in total. selected during the preliminary weeks and we will show you the top seven and now another group from Manhattan, Magnificent Force, from Brooklyn, yes, Brooklyn and from Manhattan, because I, DC Breakers, you know it when we see you play football, I mean You are like a dancer, you move so beautifully, how can you compare this break dance because it is very athletic?

Well, I don't think there's any comparison because I think break dancing is the ultimate. I think break dancing requires a lot of creativity and I think the guys here possess that tonight. Do you think there is an age limit to be able to move your body that way? I hope not, Robert Steel and Jam Brown are known as Manhattan's Fantastic Duo. FlashDan. I know. This is Larry Watson. and Jason twig from East St in New Jersey, are known as the Heartbreakers. Alright folks, the kids did all the hard work and now it's the judges' turn, that's the moment we've been waiting for, so don't go away. don't go, okay, now it's your turn to call the play after Burger King came to N Street, no one could say no to Flame, a roasted llama, nothing else would do, they love that juicy goodness, that taste like If no one could say no, no. one could say no, no one could say no to Flame Ro, don't you?

Well, this is the moment we've all been waiting for, and are you ready now? Car, I don't know, I'm here, come on, okay, uh. Why don't you do it on third place Brooklyn Isaac against Donald Walker and our second place finisher of Manhattan's number eight contestants will be in second place. This is Robert Steel and Jamille Brown, first place 15, yes, everyone would like that. see you dance us once again right ladies and gentlemen we want to say goodbye and thank you for being with us this even you have to believe it