Dance Ninjas of the Future!

 Remember watching "Breakin" in 1984, Ozone, Special K, Turbo, Ice-T, living the 80's bboy, popper, locker hype and then all of a sudden it was dead? Well if you were a true bboy you knew it wasn't dead and that it just went back to being underground. I danced in the 80's and danced in the 90's. It was one of the few things that kept me sane. We used to dance with card board boxes taped together with my best friend Georgie and Peps. Jorgie had a brother with a red Nissan mini truck with inky rims and a snug top. He had the sickest beats and a PHAT sound system! He would park it in reverse towards the park and we would bust out to LL Cool J, Beastie Boys, Afrika Bambata, James Brown, Kraftwerk, The Art of Noise, and of course Michael Jackson. I had to be sneaky cause my mom used to spank me for doing head spins because she thought I might break my neck. We were always competing for the best moves and we always had a blast. Fast forward to the present, history repeats itself with Step Up. Apparently Jon Chu lived under a rock at that time. Nothing is really going on in Cupertino, CA when he was growing up since it's a middle class town unless he wanted to learn Modern Jazz in tights lol. All the good stuff was happening in East San Jose, San Francisco, Oakland and the spaces in between. He missed it, but it let him be a nerd which led him to the USC film school where he won several awards and got into the William Morris talent Agency for being talented and now he is one of the top Directors/storytellers in the world. He directed Step Up 2 and 3. I think they're great movies with cheesy story lines, but I don't think that any dance movie can be taken serious. All we care about is the dancing and the hot chics. That's it. Like a looonnnggg music video. So this cat, takes all his new found knowledge and starts LXD, Legion of Extraordinary Dancers. The dance culture is BURSTING! Information is traveling through dance movies, "So You Think You can Dance" shows, YouTube clips of amazing dancers, World of Dance and other competitions.
It's a breathe of fresh air to see the next generation building upon this culture/subculture of the best dancing I've ever seen! Support your dancers for they inspire us all!