Thursday, April 5, 2007
Rock Steady Crew
Rock Steady Crew was a Hip-Hop and breakdancing crew that was established in 1977 in New York. The Crew originally consisted of Jimmy D and Jojo. In the year of 1979 Crazy Legs and Lenny Len were added to the crew. Crazy Legs was a Puerto Rican that grew up in the Bronx who was determined to stear clear from gang life, and became extremely involved in breakdancing. Lenny Len was also a determined breakdancer who loved Hip-Hop. With Crazy Legs and Lenny Len as new additions in Rock Steady Crew, the crew grew in its popularity almost immediately. Although Crazy Legs was originially from the Bronx, when he joined the crew he was living in Manhattan. He would travel to the Bronx on the weekends, but after a while it became too expensive. He formed his own Rock Steady Chapter in Manhattan and the crew became very well known. Although Rock Steady Crew had many obsticles to overcome, the crew helped spread the new form of dancing, and are a contributing factor to the spread of the development of Hip-Hop.
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The article was very inforamtional. A lot of the information about breakdancing I never new about. I know about Crazy legs and started his own crew and battled. I didn't now it was very expensive to break-dance.z I guess if you are travling from different states or park of New York it would get expensive. I though boys and girls go to the park or street and battle.
I really liked this article. Personally, when I was younger I took break dancing classes and loved it. It's a very difficult form of dance. You have to have a lot of upper body strength. I find it interesting that it also spread to over seas. Personally I have seen it in Finland and Japan. There will be competitions throughout the streets, subway stations, bus stations, and public areas. But like bell22 says, I bet it would be a lot more impressive to see it in New York, where it all started.
B-boys would go to the park and battle. It actually became a good way to make money by performing in different shows.
Also important to RSC was the fact that they brought a more acrobatic form of dancing to bdancing. They made floor moves popular.
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