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break dance

Street dance that originated in the USA in the late 1970s. It consists of disjointed robotic movements or acrobatic spins executed on the back or the head. It is part of the hip-hop culture.



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Velasco, in his self-written artist's biography, puts it this way: ``It's much more fun to see a 43-year-old white man break dance and rap than a kid, right?
Any Place You've Ever Been," "Rituals and Improvisations," "The Simplest of All Mysteries," "Resistance as Memory," and "Dangerous Doubts" are metaphorically the feet that cause us to shake, rumba, shuffle, salsa, tango, Lindy Hop, and break dance to the poems that are truly the dance.
Linyekula's vocabulary is polyglot, drawing from ballet, break dance, butoh, and African folk and pop dances.
 
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