Top Flight to offer break dancing for kids
Pittsburg kids will soon be able to ‘break it down,’ – literally.
Breakdancing, also known as b-boying, will be offered to kids kindergarten age through 18 at Top Flight Tumbling and owner Mandy Hobbs said she couldn’t be happier.
“I am super excited about adding breakdancing to my other classes at Top Flight Tumbling,” she said. “This will add liveliness to our program and be a fun and adventurous class to teach and learn.”
Mondo Barrientos teaches breakdancing at his church and will be teaching the courses at TFT, which is located in the back of Leapin’ Lizards in downtown Pittsburg. The dance business also offers hip-hop, tumbling and cheerleading classes.
Instructor Laura Oglesby teaches hip-hop dance and said she can’t wait to work with Mr. Barrientos. Breakdancing is traditionally done to hip-hop or funk music.
“We will probably intertwine our classes,” she said. “No one teaches that anywhere around.”
Dancers are commonly referred to a b-boys, b-girls or break-boys and break-girls. This style of dance is one of the harder forms of dance to learn as it requires tricks to be performed. If done on the street, many times the tricks are all that’s performed. When on stage, however, other types of dance moves are often added.
“I love it. Normally breakdancers have to put into a little bit of hip-hop if they’re going to perform on stage,” Mrs. Oglesby said. “Breakdancing was born from hip-hop. Most of the time it is boys, but every now and then you’ll find a girl in the mix.”
Mrs. Oglesby said she got fairly roughed up while trying to be one of the few girls who knows how to breakdance.
“You’ll get bruises doing it,” she said, laughing. “I tried to learn poses and you got to be prepared for some bruises.”
Hip-hop dance, however, allows for upbeat dancing without a lot of injuries, she said.
By Tori Lyle, news@campcountynow.com -- To continue reading this article, purchase the print edition of The Pittsburg Gazette or go to our online e-edition at:http://www.etypeservices.com/
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