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Flexing (dance)

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Flexing, also called Bone Breaking, is a style of street dance from Brooklyn, New York that is characterized by rhythmic contortionist movement combined with waving, tutting, and gliding. Flex dancers, referred to as Flexors, often perform shirtless and incorporate hats in their performance for showmanship. Flexing is primarily performed to hip-hop music but it did not come from hip-hop dance or hip-hop culture. It evolved from a Jamaican style of street dance called Bruk-Up[1][2][3] which is performed to dancehall and reggae music. Stefan "Mr. Wiggles" Clemente describes bruk-up as a reggae style of popping.[3] Flexing has been performed on the third season of America's Best Dance Crew (ABDC), on the second season of The LXD, and at the Guggenheim Museum as part of the YouTube Play event. It has also been reported on by the Huffington Post.[4]

References

  1. ^ Johnson, Kristy (December 2, 2009). "Britney's Dance Dream Team". DanceInforma.com. Retrieved 2010-11-10. Living in Brooklyn and with my family being West Indian, I was into a lot of Dancehall Reggae music. I ended up being part of a show in Brooklyn called 'Flex N Brooklyn' that created another dance style we call Flexing, which evolved from a style called 'The Bruk Up' from Jamaica.
  2. ^ Harrison, Darryl (October 26, 2009). "Bone flexing in Brooklyn". New York Post. Retrieved 2010-11-10. The biggest misconception is that flexing or our style came from hip hop, and it didn't. It actually came from reggae. It came from 'bruk up.'
  3. ^ a b Love, Paulino (March 21, 2009). "Power Moves: Turf and Flex Dancers Build Bicoastal Bonds". WireTapMag.com. Retrieved 2010-11-10. It's based off a reggae style of animation," explains Steffan "Mr. Wiggles" Clemente, one of the event's judges. "People compared it to poppin', but it's a reggae style of poppin'.
  4. ^ "Gas-Masked Dancers Hit The Subway (VIDEO)". Huffington Post. Retrieved March 5, 2012. This music video, by YAK Films for King Bones and DJ Aaron, shows two shirtless dancers/contortionists in gas masks intertwining with each other... it's a mesmerizing, and slightly unsettling, performance.
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