Footwork takes competitive dancing to the Chicago streets

At 165 bpm, footwork – the dance sensation that has replaced breakdancing in inner-city Chicago – is an exercise in speed and one-upmanshipWB-boying first swept New York in the 70s, legend held that street gangs used breakdancing as an alternative to fighting. Thirty years on, in another of America's great cities, competitive dancing is again a street-level trend. "I got bangs, I got them bangs, I could kill you with the bangs!" goes the battle cry in Chicago as speakers, rather than guns, ...

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