Your Guide To The Best Break Dancing DVDs Starting With The Highest Reviews.

Break dance DVDs

Welcome to the breakdancing page. Here we will get to see which DVDs are getting the four & five star customer reviews. Breakdancing, known formally as B-boying or B-girling by its practitioners and followers, is a dynamic style of dance that is part of Hip Hop culture This emerged out of the Hip-Hop movement in the South Bronx of New York City during the late 20th century.

Breakdancing is one of the many elements of Hip Hop culture. Commonly associated with, but distinct from, "Popping", which is one element of the Funk Styles that evolved independently in California during the late 20th century.

For the breakdancer, fashion is an important aspect of their identity. Many breakdancers dressed wearing Adidas shoes with "fat" (thick) laces. They also wore nylon jumpsuits which were functional as well as fashionable. The slick surface allowed the breakdancer to slide on the floor much easier than if she or he had been wearing a cotton shirt.

In the 1980s, with the help of pop culture and MTV, breakdancing made its way from the suburbs to the rest of the world as a new cultural phenomenon. Musicians such as Michael Jackson popularized much of the breakdancing style in their music videos. Movies such as Flashdance, Wild Style, Beat Street, Breakin' and Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo also contributed to breakdancing's growing appeal.

Today, many b-boys and former breakers are dissapointed by the media hype that watered the dance down into money and overfocus on power moves.