Style War Notodden Extended

Breakdancing and graffiti in Notodden A film with Truls, Hans Gerhard and other Notodden students by Marit and Ole Kristian So what do we say? Hello, hello Tveiten Primary School. The students have been allowed to decorate the walls. From a pedestrian underpass. Notodden's main street, end wall. Staircase, also in Notodden. You like Breakdance and you know a lot about new trends... Hip Hop and graffiti, can you tell me more about this? Well, it all started in the Bronx, with gangs fighting, but then the gang leaders realized that the leaders thought they should start. dancing instead of fighting, because they didn't know why they were fighting, so they started dancing.

And they walked around with spray cans decorating sad walls. The thing about aerosol cans is that they're illegal in Norway, but they did well in the Bronx, because they made those nice wall paintings and stuff. But today's Hip Hop culture was founded about 11 years ago. But then he just died, but now he's back. Yes, and here in Notodden and the surrounding district I have heard that there are many interested in Breakdancing, and that is what you are doing? Yeah! Yes, it's Breakdance 24/7. And you've been performing for different groups of people, as entertainment. Yes. Who has been your audience?

We have danced in a fashion show, and we have danced at Sentrum Primary School and with some elders. There are a lot of strange movements, do they mean anything? Does it originate from somewhere, or is it hmm... Do you know? Yeah, well, if it goes through the arms it's supposed to be electric current. Not an electric shock, but an electric current. It wanders like this through the body. And you walk very strangely! Well, yeah, it's kind of a rolling motion. It's a moonwalk! Moonwalk, like walking on the moon, you know? Then there are those who do strange things on a piece of cardboard.

Yeah, that's crazy, that's breakdancing. It is dangerous? Yes, the head rotates and when you rotate on your head, you can easily break your neck. Someone did it... In the Bronx! But don't you do that? No, but someone tries... Notodden, Norway 1984