I haven’t been this awed by street dance since the first time I saw the Rock Steady Crew on either Real People or That’s Incredible and when the Gamblerz from South Korea won the Battle of the Year back in 2004. In other words: Les Twins just changed breakin’.
OK. I saw this the other day on Metafilter and wasted a morning watching everything I could about these two guys.
They’re identical twins from France who practice some new style hip-hop dance called “new style.” It’s between pop video choreography, poppin’ and lockin’ and turfin’ but way beyond.
It’s clearly hip-hop but there’s no up-rockin’, no six-step, no ground game that we’d recognize, anyways. The twins, Larry and Laurent, are rhythmically perfect, beat precise, bio-engineered b-boys that can flat out dance.
At first you’re not sure what you’re looking at. Their moves are like the movies. One moment you think you recognize a Buster Keaton scene, the next moment they’re in Bullet-time. They’ll make you laugh, feel uncomfortable and shake your head in disbelief because, hey, that’s what the French do.
Mesmerizing. Thank you, lord, for the French.
Some amazingly graceful moments in here for sure.
