Urban street dance--which is now referred to across the globe as "break dance" or "hip-hop dance"--was born 15 years prior to the hip hop movement. In today's pop culture, the dance innovators from "back in the day" have been forgotten, except when choreographic echoes of their groundbreaking dance forms are repeatedly recycled in today's media. Sadly, this is still the case when dance moves that were engendered from 1965 through the 1970s on the streets of Reseda, South Central Los Angeles, Oakland, San Francisco, and Fresno, CA; or in the Bronx in New York City, are utilized by modern...
Urban street dance--which is now referred to across the globe as "break dance" or "hip-hop dance"--was born 15 years prior to the hip hop movement....