I came out to this one because a friend I haven't seen in years was competing in it.
Now, I shoot in night clubs a lot, and I've shot performance dance before, so I thought I would know what to expect. This was totally different though. People communicated to eachother through the power of dance. Everyone was a bboy (bgirl?), and they were all dancers. I was pretty much the only spectator, an outsider entering their world to document the unfolding events.
Seriously, it was weird. No rules (that I could understand anyhow), people got right up to the dancers, forming a circle. Now, I've seen this when I went to some clubs and parties where they had breakdance performers, but I thought that was just because it gets pretty cramped at a club. No, this was a big gym with plenty of space. It's just how things are.
Some details:
Apparently this was for something called the IBE Qualifier. Some sort of international breakdance competition, and the top 8 bboys in Canada will go to Holland for a convention called "Notorious IBE".
See the full photo set at: Flickr
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