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Alvin Lau - For the Breakdancers

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Uploaded by on Aug 22, 2007

Live from the individual finals of the National Poetry Slam 2007 in Austin, TX.

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  • popping and breakdancing or not the same thing. i do both, but sadly, i found i very difficult to stay articulate and close to the microphone while spinning on my head. alas, the limitations of art.

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  • Not enough people do something like this anymore, talk about something they have a passion for a put soul into it.

    Most seem to be obsessed with "everything poems" where they think they're telling people about the meaning of life or where they ramble on about battlefields they've never known or never known anyone from, but it seems "deep"

    This is where poetry & slam really meet, and they have to meet like this more often because both these things arent holding high enough a position in society.

  • lol lots of people say that, but basically only a small amount of power moves were INSPIRED by capoeira, breaking draws upon many things, gymnastics, capoeira, martial arts. There is no one thing which breakdancing developed from.

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  • CHICAGO!!!!!

  • @mistermeka. It doesn't matter if it's not breakdancing. He doesn't claim to breakdance: the poem's dedicated to breakdancers and just dancers in general. What's amazing is that he weaves his popping and words together. i dare the average dancer or poet to do that.

  • @citizenwind very true, i but i just pop i dont breakdance :(

  • @citizenwind this is not even breakdance, you should do it like this.. youtube . com/ watch?v= 3DWdENUs91A

  • @awerg69 your a fagget.

  • As a chicagoan who bboys: all i can say is...

    you perfectly sum up the reason i bboy. thank you for that moment of inspiration

  • @citizenwind I would like to use your poem in my classroom. Is this OK? Do you have a print version?

  • thanks man.. made me smile! im a popper

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