URBAN ART
BREK DANCE
DANCE: The Break Dance Breaking or is an urban dance that is part of the Hip-Hop culture emerged in African-American communities of New York City neighborhoods like the Bronx and Brooklyn in 70. Although it would reach a higher recognition in the decade 80, through the influence of artists like James Brown, and movies like Breakin 'and Beat Street movement that spread to European and Latin American countries. The term was imposed by the media to the dance known as B-Boying, and originally named by a significant number of practitioners (B-boys). It is thought that this name had commercial reasons, so some "B-boys" prefer to keep calling his dancing original mode.
ELEMENTS THAT MAKE PART THE BREAK DANCE
Dancing : It is a dance that combines a series of aerobic and rhythmic movements, influenced from aboriginal dances, martial arts, gymnastics, and funk. The list of movements is enormous and requires great dedication and discipline to be performed. The B-boying movements can be categorized into four branches or styles: Top Rock (dance above), footwork (footwork), power moves (movement power) and freeze (you freeze in a posture).
Movements :These are the kinds of movements. top-Rocking, Foot-woorking, freezes, PowerMoves.
Battles :There are clashes between B-Boys (singles, pairs or crews, as stated). To determine the winner qualifies the "Top Rocking or style" (style feet or above), "Footworks or ponies" (Style of flat or down), the "Powermoves" (Movements of power) and "Freezes" (The I is BBoy is "frozen" in a particular position). Moreover it also qualifies originality, listen to music or keep up, explosive movements (ie, movements with lots of energy), planting movements (basic dance steps, usually slightly rated), creative movement and fluency with which we combine. THE break dance is one of the most exciting dance in Latin America
BOGOTÁ URBAN ART
FESTIVAL VIALTERNA
The Department of Culture, Recreation and Sports and its affiliated entities have created the District Incentives Program that seeks to promote and strengthen the fields of Art, Culture and Heritage by providing incentives for the development and visibility of cultural, artistic and economic practices.
The festival brings Víalterna events like break dance, street dance, street art, graffiti, DJ, rap and Parkour.
