Breakin'
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- Joel Silberg
Summary
Cannon Films' breakdancing musical, directed by Joel Silberg, starring Lucinda Dickey, Adolfo 'Shabba-Doo' Quiñones and Michael 'Boogaloo Shrimp' Chambers. A young jazz dancer is introduced to LA's pop-locking and breakdancing scene and learns to fuse the styles. The film was a sleeper hit and spawned a same-year sequel, Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo.
Hip-hop relevance
One of the first wide-release Hollywood films to put b-boy and pop-locking culture in front of a mass audience, alongside Beat Street the same year. Helped catalyze the international breakdancing boom of 1984.
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