Break-'Dancing' is NOT Dancing

"B-boying", "break-dancing". Tomatoe, to-mah-toe. Whatever you choose to call it, I still don't consider it dance for the reasons I mentioned in my original post. If anything, your post confirmed what I said. It's clearly not easy, extremely physical, and requires a lot of practice/training, but it is NOT dancing.

P.S. If you disagree, you should have argued against the points that I originally posted, which you didn't.

Sure there are bboys that are only powerheads but at the same time I've seen contemporary dancers who can pirouette for days and have crazy extensions but don't even dance to their track and would fail in a salsa or hip hop class because they have no rhythm.

For me, it's whatever your body feels like doing whenever a song plays. YES you may look like a fool to others, especially others who think they know more than you or studied in a school for dance. Heck, I can't dance for *beep* but when I move my body during a song, people call it dancing as far as I'm concerned.

Who are we to say breaking or b-boying is not dancing? They are breaking boundaries and expanding horizons that other people haven't done. 20-30 years down the line, someone from our generation will use this same type of dance to diss on future dance genres. So there. To each his own,right? Peace out,everybody. :)

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I agree with everyone on here. Very ignorant post. Go check out a real b-boy battle and tell me it doesn't require rhythm. However, I can see how many people get the wrong perception on "break dancing" from what they see in movies. Of course they're going to put more emphasis on power moves, as that is more entertaining to watch for the general public.

Also, you don't need any strength to be a b-boy. There are many b-girls out there as well.

yeah yeah....ok..I wasn't going to post a reply to this thread but I can't believe I haven't seen ONE reply that agrees in any way to the original thread. I TOTALLY get what the OP wrote.

First of all, Break Dancing was around loooong before B-Boying. B-boying is a derivative of Break Dancing. There are just a lot of new styles out now but they ALL derived from break dancing. But since the OP said NOTHING about b-boying, then what the hell are all of the posters here jumping all over the OP about the difference between the two? Idiots! The OP was about BREAK DANCING so if bboying is not BREAK DANCING, then don't reply to the damn post. Its not about BBOYING.

Now, the conventional meaning of dancing is moving in time with the rythm. Hardly ANY of the moves in break dancing, bboying, or whatever you want to call it, has to do with moving with the rythm of the song. But it all just looks better with a nice phat jam blaring in the background. I dont know how it could EVER be considered dancing unless you also consider Balet dancing which to me is also NOT. If you believe just frolicking in the meadow, twirling around and waving your arms is dancing(which it actually is by definition alone), then yes break dancing, bboying, and twirling around in a cornfield IS dancing. But the OP is talking about actual DANCING in the sense of getting on the dancefloor and moving and shaking according to the rythm, 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 1 and 2 and 3 and soforth. Most of the time, when people are break dancing, they may start out clapping and whatnot to the beat, but once they go for it, the rythm usually goes out of the picture. Yes, many, many, many break dancers have excellent rythm, but most of their moves have nothing to do with the rythm. Take the robot for instance, usually the "dancer" doing the robot is just amazing us with the strict dicipline they are displaying and tight movements but those movements are not on the one unless by chance.

Anyway, I get you OP. These moves are often amazing, but I also would not consider it DANCING. It just happens to fall under Break Dancing and the Dancing part of the name just stuck and so we have to endure everyone calling it dancing but it clearly is NOT.