NYT Article on Subway Breakdancers

[NY Times, 1/28/09]

No money was collected during the short session on the platform, but for the dancers, nearly all from the same few blocks in the South Bronx, it was a chance to bond and share knowledge.

“We’re like a community, us that dance,” said Anthony Robinson, 18. “That’s the younger generation right there,” he added, pointing to a group of 13- and 14-year-olds.

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Break dancing, also known as B-boying, was born in Manhattan and the South Bronx in the early 1970s, a pillar of hip-hop culture, along with rapping and graffiti. By the 1980s, its teenage pioneers were attracting worldwide acclaim; one local group, the Rock Steady Crew, was appearing in documentaries and other films and touring widely.

Now the dance has its own international competitions, with performers from as far afield as South Korea and Russia. But for the teenagers around 170th Street, it is still glued to the grit of the Bronx pavement, where, they say, break dancing is enjoying a resurgence.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/29/nyregion/29breakdance.html?_r=2

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