At this point, it has been selected for the Olympic Games and the Asian Games in succession, and break dancing can be described as a high-profile moment, which has entered the public's field of vision with high profile. E-sports has been out of the circle in recent years, and it is not surprising that it was selected for the Asian Games. Skateboarding, rock climbing, surfing and other projects are more or less known to the public. So can break dancing be chosen as a sport in the Olympic Games and the Asian Games?
Official explanation: Break dancing is a kind of "sports dance", which belongs to street dance.
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What is break dancing?
For those who don't know about break dancing, I have to mention the famous movie star Sun. His break dance videos are often popular on the Internet. After the release of Break Dance, many netizens joked that "Brother Hong Lei can represent China".
Participated in the national break dance competition and won the second place. He even entered the China Break Dance Star Art Troupe with his talent and hard work, and became attached to break dance. Sun Cai was able to improve his family situation. That year, he just went to the second year of high school.
However, the good times did not last long. As break dancing is no longer popular, more and more young people lose interest in it, and the break dance troupe is on the verge of dissolution.
Sun, Hong Lei, break dancing.
Sun was faced with the same situation as break dancing. This once popular sport among teenagers in China is facing decline.
Break dancing originated in the United States and was founded by James Braud, a black singer on the east coast of the United States. He created a strange action when he sang his new song on 1949 TV. To Braud's surprise, young people competed to imitate the original casual creations and held dance competitions in the streets.
When this dance spread to Los Angeles on the west coast, there was a dance that imitated the movements of puppet robots. The two major schools of dance in the United States, East and West, are very popular with young people. Because most of these dances are performed in the street, they are also called "street dance".
In 1980s, an American film called "Break Dance" brought many China audiences into the world of break dance, and a number of loyal fans of break dance were born.
Bell bottoms, disco and break dancing have also become the symbols of fashionable young people in the 1980s.
The video of "Break Dance" spread among teenagers in China through various channels, and the families of teenagers who owned televisions and video recorders became the spread center of break dance.
Suddenly, many small "motors" appeared in the street (one of the protagonists in break dancing, named Bugalo Shrimp, a famous dancer in the history of break dancing).
Dance clips from the TV series "Top of the Forbidden City"
To outsiders, they are a little neurotic. For a time, they "transmitted electricity" from one hand to the other, "walked in space" from one side to the other, and "wiped the glass" in the air. Not afraid of worldly eyes, these young people are immersed in the world of break dancing and enjoy it.
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Break dancing will not stop.
Anyway, the previous American film "Break Dance" had a great influence on the development of break dance in China, so a large number of street dancers appeared in China almost simultaneously with the United States, and the level was quite high. The late young dancer Tao Jin was also a famous professional dancer at that time, studying and practicing break dancing.
Nowadays, this variety show "This is Hip-hop" has warmed up break dancing again, ranking first in the hot search list frequently, and at the same time discovering many excellent dancers. The public no longer only knows Sun Honglei of "Dancer from the Break".
In 20 19, the first world hip-hop championship was successfully held in Nanjing, China. As the world's top street dance competition, both men and women can show their elegance in break dancing. Among them, the best performance of domestic female break dancers is to advance to the semi-finals, while male break dancers stop at the top 32.
Break dancing is closer to gymnastics than other dances, and those popular movements can be standardized as gymnastics movements. Wang Han, a well-known domestic dancer and deputy director of the Street Dance Committee of the Chinese Dancers Association, once analyzed.
With the entry of break dancing into the Olympic Games, this sport will usher in new development opportunities. This year, the break dance competition has not stopped.
The "Red Bull BC One" China Break Dance Competition was held in Shanghai, with 150 contestants from 24 provinces and cities in China. It has absorbed the action elements of different sports and art forms such as Brazilian war dance, gymnastics and China Wushu.
Break dancing shows a strong visual impact with its fast footwork, handstand freezing action and incredible difficult rotation on the ground or in the air.
Since 2004, this event has successfully held the 16 World Finals in many cities around the world, and conducted more than 50 qualifying matches and training camps in more than 30 sub-regions. This year, due to the epidemic, only the China Tournament was retained.
Another top break dance event, the China Finals of the 2020HHI World Hip-hop Championship, also ended in Guiyang, which also included a break dance competition, attracting outstanding players from the program "This is Hip-hop".
Exquisite professional standards and explosive atmosphere brought a break dance feast to the audience, just as the slogan of the competition said: "Unite through dance-dance unites us!" "
Su Jie, secretary-general of China Sports Dance Federation, once said: "At present, there is still a certain gap between the competitive level of break dancing in China and the top masters in the world."
According to statistics, the dance market in China has a huge school-age population base. In 20 19, the school-age population of 3- 18 years old dance education in China is about 260 million. Although the growth rate of the newborn population has declined, it is estimated that there will still be 252 million school-age population by 2025.
Break dancing has been popular in Europe and America for decades. At present, the countries with relatively high international level are the United States, France and other countries, and Japan and South Korea in Asia also have a certain level. The main reason is that these areas contacted earlier.
Although the break dance in China started slowly, it has been catching up in recent years.
In Buenos Aires 20 18 Youth Olympic Games, break dancing made its debut as a competition. China's "post-00" player Shang Xiaoyu, as the only contestant of the China team, broke into the quarterfinals of the men's team.
For break dancing in China, next year's Asian Games in Hangzhou and 2024 Olympic Games in Paris are even more opportunities to prove themselves.
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It coincides with the development trend of the Olympic Games.
On the other hand, although the development of break dancing has improved in recent years, it is still a minority project. How to reduce the space of traditional Olympic events such as weightlifting and boxing and become formal events?
The reason is that it coincides with the slimming principle of the Olympic Games, that is, encouraging gender equality, controlling the scale of participation and promoting the revival of the Olympic Games.
According to statistics, the number of participants in the Paris Olympic Games is 10500, which will be 592 fewer than the number of participants in the Tokyo Olympic Games in 2020. At the same time, we will try to reduce some male events and increase some mixed events. There will be 22 mixed events in Paris Olympic Games, four more than in Tokyo Olympic Games.
It is worth mentioning that the proportion of women participating in the Paris Olympic Games will reach 50% for the first time in history, and the proportion of men and women is equal. The proportion of women in the Tokyo Olympic Games will also reach 48.8%.
However, women were forbidden to participate in the first Olympic Games. It was not until 1900 that women were allowed to participate in the Olympic Games, and only tennis and golf were allowed. In today's Olympic Games, women can even occupy half of the country.
Break dancing competitions usually include men's singles, women's singles and mixed sports. The ornamental difference between men and women is not as strong as traditional sports, and even mixed break dancing between men and women will be more pleasing to the eye, which is one of the advantages of break dancing.
There is also a very important reason: starting from 20 14, the IOC allowed the host country to propose additional events. Internationally, France is one of the countries with high level of break dancing.
According to the data released by the World Sports Dance Federation (WDSF) in 2018, there are10 million people participating in break dancing in France, and about 1 1 large-scale international competitions and 560 national competitions are held in France every year. This Olympic Games was held in Paris, France, and the participation of break dancing in the Olympic Games was also supported by France.
Break dancing is very popular with young people, and most of them are young people, which is also in line with the trend of changing the aging and youthfulness of the audience in top international events such as the Olympic Games and the Asian Games. Participants in new projects such as e-sports, rock climbing and surfing are basically youth groups.
Break dancing is not limited by venue conditions. As long as you feel in place, you can dance anytime and anywhere, and you can dance with people around you, saving the venue fee.
Younger audiences can bring more audiences to the Olympic Games and the Asian Games, and at the same time enhance cultural connectivity, national participation and inclusiveness, which coincides with the Olympic values.
If break dancing now means embracing young people, then we can expect more young people to embrace the Olympics after continuous development.