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.