The thumping music died to a whisper upon Alien Ness¡¯ request. As the veteran breaker ¡ª never ¡°break dancer¡± ¡ª stalked and snaked around the room, his many rings caught the spotlight that illuminated the dance floor.
Alien Ness coached a few dozen amateurs ¡ª men, women, Black, white, Asian ¡ª during his footwork class before Red Bull BC One¡¯s USA National Final, one of America¡¯s biggest breaking competitions, held in August at the Fillmore Philadelphia.
¡°They say dance is a vocabulary,¡± Alien Ness said, exhorting the dancers to contort and pretzel their bodies to spell their names. He added, ¡°If it feels like the letter, if it moves like the letter, then it is the letter.¡±
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