What Kind of Hip Hop Head Are You? · Result
The Cypher
Give you a circle and a break and the night is complete.
Designed rarity: about 10% of takers
You dance, and you tend to judge a night by whether there was ever room to. Breaking, popping, locking, house footwork or a style that is simply yours, it all needs the same two things: floor space and a DJ who understands that the break is the point, not a gap between choruses. People like you know the old story of a DJ in the Bronx playing the drum section of a funk record twice so the dancers could go off. You are still dancing to that idea, fifty years later.
You are often the first to open a circle and the last to leave it. You stretch in a corner while others are still ordering drinks, you watch the DJ for the moment the drums open up, and you go in when the energy says so, not when a plan does. You like rooms with a wooden floor, a sound system with real low end, and a crowd that claps for the person in the middle instead of filming them. Practice sessions, jams and battles are where you feel most yourself.
Your strength
You can turn an empty patch of floor into the centre of the room in one break.
Your blind spot
When the DJ skips the breaks, you tend to give up on the whole night a little too early.
Key takeaways
- Give you a circle and a break and the night is complete.
- The break is the point, and you are still dancing to that idea.
- A night without breaks is a chance to start the circle yourself.
Rooms to try around the world
- Juste Debout, Paris: A huge standing battle where popping, locking, house and hip hop dancers go two against two on the floor.
- Breakin' Convention, London: A festival of hip hop dance theatre that also gives the cyphers in the foyer their own spotlight.
- Red Bull BC One World Final, A different city each year: The one on one breaking championship where the circle is the whole stage.
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