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Article Excerpt
Krumping kicks the hip-hop tradition of dance battles up a notch. It's a freestyle dance form that's full-bodied, adrenaline-driven, and confrontational. although deep-seated in hip hop, it departs from the movement vocabularies of b-boying/ b-girling. The dancers are more interactive with each other, sometimes using physical contact and weight sharing.
Film director David LaChapelle's new documentary Krumped shows a crowd of viewers surrounding a smaller grouping of dancers. All of the dancers are moving, bobbing, and nodding to the music, but only one, a young man in casual baggy jeans and white T-shirt, is dancing. With a raw physicality, his arms and torso are pumping to the emphatic rhythm of a hip-hop tune, and he stares boldly out at the audience around him. His syncopated, rapid-fire freestyle flickers between...
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