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Flexing, also called Bone Breaking, is a style of street dance from Brooklyn, New York that is characterized by rhythmic contortionist movement combined with waving, tutting, floor moves, and gliding. Flex dancers, referred to as flexers, often perform shirtless and incorporate hat tricks in their performance for showmanship.

Origins

Before flexing gained mainstream exposure it was featured as early as 1992 on a local television show in New York City called 'Flex N Brooklyn’. The dance is primarily performed to a mix of dancehall, reggae, and "...a chopped-up instrumental called the 'Volume' riddim".^[1] According to Pitchfork.com, the producers of this new genre refer to it as FDM (Flex Dance Music).^[1] Although flexing looks like a subgenre of popping, it did not come from hip-hop dance, funk music, or hip-hop culture. It evolved from a Jamaican style of street dance called bruk-up.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5] In a 2009 interview with WireTap magazine, dancer Stefan "Mr. Wiggles" Clemente described bruk-up as a "reggae style of animation."^[4]

Exposure

Flexing has been performed on the third season of America's Best Dance Crew (ABDC), on the second season of The LXD, and at the Guggenheim Museum as part of the YouTube Play event. In 2011, the Huffington Post published a brief news article on flex dancers Bones the Machine and DJ Aaron.^[6] In 2013, NextLevelSquad performed flexing at Breakin' Convention^[7] and Adedamola "Ringmaster Nugget" Orisagbemi performed flexing at the Vail International Dance Festival.^[8] In 2016, Jacob's Pillow Dance presented FLEXN, a creation of flex pioneer Reggie (Regg Roc) Gray and theatre and opera director Peter Sellars. ^[9]

The 2013 independent film Flex Is Kings documents the lives of several flexers over a two-year period leading up to a dance competition called BattleFest.^[10] Flex Is Kings was screened at the Tribeca Film Festival.^[5] Flexing was also the subject of a French online dance show called "Puma the Quest".^[11] In 2014, The New Yorker published a seven-page article about flex dancer Saalim "Storyboard P" Muslim.^[12]

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1. ^¹{{cite web|url=http://pitchfork.com/features/article/9864-flex-tunes-brooklyns-own-dance-music/|title=Flex Tunes: Brooklyn's Own Dance Music|last=Steyels|first=Mike|date=April 6, 2016|work=Pitchfork.com|accessdate=July 4, 2016|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160408124945/http://pitchfork.com/features/article/9864-flex-tunes-brooklyns-own-dance-music/|archivedate=April 8, 2016}}
2. ^{{cite news |last=Johnson |first=Kristy |title=Britney’s Dance Dream Team |url=http://www.danceinforma.com/magazine/?p=1378 |date=December 2, 2009 |work=Dance Informa |quote=Living in Brooklyn and with my family being West Indian, I was into a lot of Dancehall Reggae music. I ended up being part of a show in Brooklyn called ‘Flex N Brooklyn’ that created another dance style we call Flexing, which evolved from a style called ‘The Bruk Up’ from Jamaica. |accessdate=November 10, 2010}}
3. ^{{cite news |last=Harrison |first=Darryl |title=Bone flexing in Brooklyn |date=October 26, 2009 |work=New York Post |url=http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/item_ogJ0soIICbV5KFVqQj8qJI |quote=The biggest misconception is that flexing or our style came from hip hop, and it didn’t. It actually came from reggae. It came from ‘bruk up.’ |accessdate=November 10, 2010}}
4. ^¹{{cite news |last=Love |first=Paulino |title=Power Moves: Turf and Flex Dancers Build Bicoastal Bonds |url=http://www.wiretapmag.org/arts/44082/ |work=WireTap Magazine |date=March 21, 2009 |quote=It's based on a reggae style of animation," explains Steffan "Mr. Wiggles" Clemente, one of the event's judges. "People compared it to poppin', but it's a reggae style of poppin'. |accessdate=November 10, 2010}}
5. ^¹{{cite web |last=Brun-Lambert |first=David |date=December 9, 2013 |title=Flexing: Brooklyn Goes Hard |url=http://www.redbull.com/cs/Satellite/en_US/Article/Flexing-Brooklyn-goes-hard-021243360902624 |work=RedBull.com |accessdate=February 28, 2014 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131226031434/http://www.redbull.com/cs/Satellite/en_US/Article/Flexing-Brooklyn-goes-hard-021243360902624 |dead-url=no |archivedate=December 26, 2013 |df= }}
6. ^{{cite web|title=Gas-Masked Dancers Hit The Subway (VIDEO)|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/18/gas-masked-dancers-hit-th_n_901531.html|work=Huffington Post|accessdate=March 5, 2012|date=September 17, 2011|quote=This music video, by YAK Films for King Bones and DJ Aaron, shows two shirtless dancers/contortionists in gas masks intertwining with each other... it's a mesmerizing, and slightly unsettling, performance.}}
7. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.breakinconvention.com/artists/nextlevelsquad-usa|title=NextLevelSquad (USA)|work=BreakinConvention.com|accessdate=February 11, 2013}}
8. ^{{cite web |last=Macaulay |first=Alastair |date=August 7, 2013 |title=A Whirl of Premieres, From Jookin to Jetés |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/08/arts/dance/vail-dance-festival-often-influential-delivers-surprises.html |work=The New York Times |accessdate=September 6, 2013}}
9. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.jacobspillow.org/events/flexn/|title=FLEXN at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival 2016|work=Jacob's Pillow|access-date=2018-03-01|language=en-US}}
10. ^{{cite web |title=Flex is King – A new Documentary by Deidre Schoo and Michael Beach Nichols |url=http://streetclash.com/flex-is-king/ |work=StreetClash.com |accessdate=February 28, 2014 |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6NjCWevR0?url=http://streetclash.com/flex-is-king/ |archivedate=February 28, 2014 |deadurl=yes |df= }}
11. ^{{cite web |date=April 18, 2014 |title=Bonus NYC : rencontre avec le Ringmasters Crew |url=http://www.pumathequest.com/bonus-nyc-rencontre-avec-le-ringmasters-crew/ |work=PumaTheQuest.com |accessdate=February 28, 2014|language=fr}}
12. ^{{cite news |last=Weiner |first=Jonah |title=The Impossible Body: Storyboard P, the Basquiat of street dancing. |work=The New Yorker |date=January 6, 2014 |url=http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/01/06/140106fa_fact_weiner |accessdate=February 28, 2014 |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6NjDU1z2n?url=http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/01/06/140106fa_fact_weiner |archivedate=February 28, 2014 |deadurl=yes |df= }}

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