The dawn of break
Live MintThe imposition of Section 144 in Mumbai following the Supreme Court’s verdict on the Ayodhya dispute could not dampen the enthusiasm of the 4,000-odd hip hop and street dance fans who converged at the NSCI Dome in Worli last Saturday for the world finals of the Red Bull BC One competition. Drawing from influences as diverse as James Brown, kung-fu movies and uprock—an aggressive dance style popular in New York Latinx communities—the early b-boys were the original stars of hip hop parties. Earlier this year, I spent a couple of months doing research for Breaking New Ground: India’s Dance Revolution, a feature-length documentary on the Indian breaking scene produced by Red Bull India and released last month in the run-up to the BC One world finals. The Indian breaking story started in the early 2000s, when a handful of youngsters across the country discovered it through YouTube, movies like Stomp The Yard and You Got Served, and chance interactions with Indian-American hip hop veterans like Netrapal Singh aka b-boy HeRa.
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