Street Dancing Has Hit The Streets Of Peterborough From The US

Breakdancing by local young men.

Inside a Peterborough shopping arcade, a boombox provides electronic dance music for a group of young black men taking turns to dance and spin on the polished floor. People stop to watch while walking past. More scenes of the dancers outside on a brick pavement, again attracting a crowd. Anglia TV reporter Greg Barnes asks one of the men why he spends his time street dancing. He says it’s something to do, and people in Britain don’t know what it is, see it as something from New York, so while he doesn’t have a job, he’ll carry on practising dancing. Another man says he was dancing while at school and will carry on even when he has a job, because it’s life, at least until he’s about 25. Four men in a ring send a wave effect across their linked arms. Promoter Steve Jason says he saw the group dancing in Queensgate shopping centre, and they are so good he signed them up. He says “they pull people, it’s good to watch”. He says the disco dancing of “Saturday Night Fever” is over, and this is the music of today. More scenes of spectacular break dancing. This video was made to be shown in a news story on Anglia Television early evening news / magazine programme About Anglia.

Keywords

Breakdancing; Boomboxes; Ghetto blasters; Body popping; Hip hop

Additional Description

The music continues for a few seconds after the visuals end and was probably added by Anglia Television. The tracks include Ray-Gun-Omics by Project Future, Get Wet by C-Bank and The Wild Style by Time Zone.