The Roots of Breakdance

By Miss Cellania in Music, Video Clips on May 18, 2008 at 9:53 am


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Soviet dancers backed by “It’s Like That” by Run DMC. -via Digg


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  1. CheeseDuck
    May 18th, 2008 at 10:43 am

    Hahah.. Soviets are so ghetto.

  2. robert
    May 18th, 2008 at 11:07 am

    White people ROCK!

  3. William
    May 18th, 2008 at 11:33 am

    I’m glad we never had to fight these guys.

  4. Ali S.
    May 18th, 2008 at 11:42 am

    Oh, it’s ON! *b-boy stance*

  5. Ratz
    May 18th, 2008 at 12:52 pm

    Man, I’m glad the Russians have generally been our allies, accordian-guy alone would kick our asses. Imagine how fit you must have to be even to do a half of that!

  6. Tempscire
    May 18th, 2008 at 12:56 pm

    Oh, those Russians.

  7. Adam Stanhope
    May 18th, 2008 at 2:25 pm

    Great post – awesome video. Thanks, Miss C!

  8. rdubs
    May 18th, 2008 at 2:29 pm

    All hail the people’s Run DMC!

  9. rohin
    May 18th, 2008 at 2:49 pm

    That is such a great video. I can’t get over how similar to modern b-boy battles that is. Except far more good-natured, and we don’t dance in full military garb with heavy leather boots.

    Dance Dance Revolutionaries.

  10. Idil
    May 18th, 2008 at 2:56 pm

    They do kick ass.

    I can’t believe the dance fits so well with the music though… I really want to know how that happened! It fits all the way through!

    haha and I love neatorama so much that I was accidentally typing “neatorama” instead of my password while logging into the computer >_>

  11. Badjuk
    May 18th, 2008 at 4:24 pm

    I love “Its like that”.

  12. Snappy
    May 18th, 2008 at 5:03 pm

    Rohin, The video syncs so well because the it was edited, however the device of the original film is obviously a dance battle, so yep, nothing is new.

    Having grown up during the latter half of the Cold War, I echo the sentiments of some of the other posters. There is something about this video that captures some sort of relief that the Soviets and the U.S did not engage in a nuclear exchange. I suppose its joie de vivre would have been marred by a certain ominous feeling.

  13. Snappy
    May 18th, 2008 at 5:19 pm

    Dance Dance Revolutionaries. LOL! Great one, Rohin.

  14. bean
    May 18th, 2008 at 5:38 pm

    Ratz -

    The Russians have generally been your allies? What country do you live in, Iran? Armenia?

  15. Fritz
    May 18th, 2008 at 6:21 pm

    Sometime when you got an extra minut O’ free time try and do that sit and squat and kick your legs out routine…It is hard as hell to do. Good vid

  16. CheeseDuck
    May 18th, 2008 at 6:23 pm

    Well, Russia hasn’t tried kicking anyones ass in a while. Probably cause all these soldiers are out of commission. If they were still out there fighting/dancing we would be f’ed in the a.

  17. tweedledopey
    May 18th, 2008 at 7:41 pm

    Obligatory:
    In Soviet Russia, dance breaks you!

  18. bean
    May 18th, 2008 at 8:38 pm

    CheeseDuck -

    Evidently, you missed everything they’ve done in Georgia over the past decade or so. And Azerbaijan. Plus Chechnya. And a whole bunch of other places.

  19. Mr.Gecko
    May 18th, 2008 at 8:47 pm

    Ratz said: “Man, I’m glad the Russians have generally been our allies, accordian-guy alone would kick our asses.”

    Allies? ever heard of the cold war? btw, that is an awesome dance, does it still exist? is it a folk dance?

  20. InSpain
    May 18th, 2008 at 9:05 pm

    In Spain we would call these dancers rojo maricas.

    Also this video kicked nalga.

  21. ted
    May 19th, 2008 at 7:33 am

    Reminds me of those dancing sailor movies – On the Town?

  22. Justin
    May 19th, 2008 at 7:54 am

    “Well, Russia hasn’t tried kicking anyones ass in a while. Probably cause all these soldiers are out of commission. If they were still out there fighting/dancing we would be f’ed in the a.”

    Tell that to the Chechens.

    Great video!

  23. MoniA
    May 19th, 2008 at 8:10 am

    cool! I enjoyed this

  24. J of The Sandhills
    May 19th, 2008 at 3:12 pm

    they got served…

  25. LisaL
    May 20th, 2008 at 4:30 pm

    Very awesome video. Wish I was that physically fit to do the moves they do. Very cool.

  26. Yaroslav
    May 23rd, 2008 at 2:02 pm

    Guys, stop talking about the cold war and chechens :) ).

    just go with it!

    As a Russian citizen I can tell you smth about those dances. Men on the video are not simple soldiers. This is one of the military dance band, they dance famous “cossack’s” dances. It is an old tradition to have military clubs, where tallanted soldiers could dance and sing traditional(you could say even folk) dances and songs, not only in USSR,but in Russia nowadays. Oh, you should find some video with cossack’s chorus, it is cool too.

    P.S sorry for my english


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