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The Story Behind The Get Down's Kung Fu Connection
The Story Behind The Get Down's Kung Fu Connection
Shaolin Fantastic doesn't just walk into a scene - he flies. He leaps off of buildings, swings around fence poles, bounces off of refrigerators, and flips into a crowd before starting a B-boy dance battle. For the better part of the first episode of Netflix's The Get Down , he's glimpsed only in snatches: red sneakers, a hat, a cloud of dust.
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Choreographers Rich and Tone Talauega discuss the importance of kung fu cinema and its role in the evolution of B-boy culture and dance.




Great article! I really like the point the article makes, about how the show hammers in that technique needs practice and hard work. With the crayon, I really was expecting some kind of cheap a-ha! moment, but instead they had to keep working. Like it was a huge realization but Shao still needed work, they all still needed to practice n work. (The rest of the analysis of that connection is cool, too. It's written all over the genre, and it's really neat to see it in action in the show.)