The Big Breakdance Contest Full (Remastered Audio)

from the Roxy with host Leslie Uggams plus from New York attracts Carlos DeJesus and celebrity judges including Broadway's Annie tomorrow's football grade Herschel Walker and all my children's Debbie Morgan and Darnell Williams and now Leslie Uggams hi everyone and welcome to the finals of the big break dance contest and tonight you're going to see some of the best of the break-dances the groups who made it to the top out of more than 600 contestants and this is the night that our finalists have been waiting they packed the ROTC over three Sundays to compete for the perfect prize $2,500 in cash and appearance on new york contracts and a role in the new feature film beach street our judges will have a tough time picking the winner but before we get started we're going to talk to our master ceremonies from WK tu carlos de asis who knows all about breakdancing a little bit leslie breakdancing is a little bit like jazz where you improvise around some basic moves and you don't really step out in solo you don't step out in front unless you really know what you're doing I can relate to that it started in the Bronx back in 1975 violent street gangs were on their way out because too many kids were either dead or in jail a teenager named Afrika Bambaataa started the zoo donation at the Bronx River projects it was a new type of gang which focuses in on music and dance neighborhood boys were called crews and they challenge each other in wild acrobatic feats called breakdancing the first youth culture since the 60s put a premium on individual imagination and the hip-hop generation was born if you live or work in New York City you may recognize a street art form that they call hip hop it's rapping just a kata like poetry that screams out of portable radios known as boxes it's graffiti on clothes on murals and unfortunately the subway and it's the breakdance where kids spin round and round like a top on a piece of a cardboard it's really something I always see some sense of what a body can actually do it's amazing kind of I wish I could be so today Afrika Bambaataa still lives in the Bronx he's an international recording star a role model to thousands of City youngsters it's something to release the pressure you know instead of going out there fighting breakdance against stuff in other groups the whole culture which is called hip hop started in the West grounds by DJ by the name of DJ hurt then it came across to the south-southeast guys who myself Afrika Bambaataa now that's gone from the grounds to Manhattan all across America is now internationally hip-hop is now very hip since the movie Flashdance breakdancing has popped up in commercials music videos nightclubs and all over the media for many of these kids breakdancing is a dream it's a way out of the streets like sports it's a way to be somebody my dream is me to pieces sets to go to Hollywood see all the movie stars be chillin with them you know just the way they tuned for the chosen few Harry Belafonte's new movie about the Bronx called Beach Street may make that dream come true Hollywood has invaded their community Hollywood has come to them and said that we want what you've got well it looks like breakdancing of just plain family entertainment will be back in a moment for some highlights of the preliminaries baby swipes the plug windmills and electric boogie neck backstage jitters last-minute walnuts and enough energy to light up Times Square that's what it was like here at the Roxy for the preliminaries of the big break dance contest the Roxy is a famous roller disco but it's also the premier breakdance club in New York it has a floor that seems as big as a football field just enough space for contests that has attracted dancers and fans from all five boroughs Long Island and New Jersey everyone had a chance to participate by sending a postcard to wkt ufm the sponsors of the contest postcards were picked by random drawing the contestants danced for up to three minutes and were judged on costume originality and performance and that was the tough one you try figuring out which of these windmills and back spins is the best the names of the groups well almost as original as their moves body mechanics general electric the dynamic rocket Rahn and my favorite name of all nasty with rock but the best part the judges and fans alike was the sheer variety of the dancing there was plenty of traditional breakdancing an athletic style that usually happens on the ground an expert electric boogie a style that makes a dancer look like a character straight out of science fiction all your favorite computer game give it a couple of more years and breakdancing may be an Olympic event now there's a good start the dynamic break is let's go to Carlos and find out how they put their routines together well let's do dynamic breakers or amongst the frontrunners in this contest they want to take breakdancing to greater heights and they just may be the group to do it good breaker doesn't just happen it takes a lot of talent and hard work to get there like the dynamic breakers airborne cano spider deuce and flip or what they call will leap down in other words they've mastered the moves and they're proud of it what makes us special from any other group is that we all specialize in one one thing like each of us have a special thing to do our specialty in the group is flexibility as I got my name spider King my friends call me airborne the reason for that is because my special talent is a group is that I mix gymnastics and to breakdancing so everything had most of my tricks I've done in the end and back down into the ground we accepted do something cool because we thought we needed something spectacular and I grew it to get any other normal breaker he would just do like some close to what I do but it would look the same now juice over here he spends on his head he's present I said constantly like a top that makes him special we like special talent this is fivesies picture in Jamaica Queens we're just about any day after school you could find a dynamic Breakers just chilling out I've been asked for a reason at first I started dancing because I really thought this would show that I'm I can get popular everything all that but I didn't really want that but it it just happened so the reason why I really I really want to dance now is to cross over from hip hop into pop culture this advanced full of excitement that brings people up to the most extremely joy it may be a lot of fun but it's a dance with difficult steps and stylized moves our practice is a sort of like fighting with another person but not actually touching it's very important breaking what you have to do to work on top and on bottom now he's doing bottom forward rise into a basic move called baby swipes then the actual moves float and at the end go to a freeze getup need the same way yet is wrong electrically consists of a lot of different styles like this is called waves like that move your body like this or you can take like this whose that's called ticking or you could do the robot like this our dream is like to form a like a corporation a dance school you know we would like for this dance to keep going on to the future like dad's ballet you know that sort of thing keeps going going for years and years now Oh not everyone at the preliminaries had the style of the dynamic Breakers but you got to hand it to the folks who go it alone better luck next time guys nice try up next the best of the breakers hey be there or be square I believe I said that but before we meet them let's meet our judges our first judge form into your own a box what do you say everybody Earl the Pearl Monroe our next lady she played Angela Bassett on All My Children and you go to do get the rubber Debbie Morgan and Darnell live and a sexy Italian next to them yellow the owner of disco fever the club we're rapping and breaking all started and Emmy award-winning investigative reporter and an anchor person at wabc-tv Johnson all right the second lady right next to John is a little more she's not compared to the Broadway play nine lesser roses for grabs and the Night Fever right now he's working out some fresh steps for the new breakdancing Bowie Peach Street and right next to Real Quiet do for very very topics he put out that record you're a good girl he's sick too much better right little Thomas for the New Jersey General you want the Heisman Trophy just do it it bad Herschel Walker and now the other stars of the show the finalists there were sixteen groups all together selected over the preliminary weeks and we're going to show you the top seven and now another group from Manhattan magnificent you Praeger you know Herschel when we watch you play football I mean you're like a dancer you move so beautifully how can you compare this breakdance because it's so athletic well I don't think there's any comparison because I think great dancing is the ultimate I think breakdance to take a lot of creativity and I think the guys here possess that tonight do you think there's an age limit of how you can move your body like that I hope Robert Steele and Jamil Brownlee known as the fantastic cool from a handy why this is Larry Watson and Jason Wang we forage in Jersey they know has a heartbreaker alright well kids it all all the hard work we now return the judges that's the moment we've been waiting for so don't go away ok don't go away ok Hershel now it's your turn to call the play after burger king came to 9th Street no one could say no to flame-broiling all right it went okay we are offering a hand the captain's coming around you

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Views: 16,387

Rating: 4.9624414 out of 5

Keywords: Big Break Dance Contest, 1983, Live at the Roxy, B-Boying, Hip Hop, Rap, 80s Hip Hop, Burger King Commercial

Id: C1fIHrhfLbk

Length: 21min 39sec (1299 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 13 2011