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breakdancer
noun
One who breakdances.
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The 23-year-old joined the crew in 2010 as a self-taught breakdancer.
He is dressed in flame-red long shorts and baseball cap and, because not all the men speak English, his words are translated by Hamza "Cranky" Ben Youssef, a Tunisian breakdancer with a pigtail and a connoisseur moustache.
I say "aisle", but the space involved was wide enough for a breakdancer to comfortably perform a floorshow.
There have been some watershed moments recently – like the T-Mobile advert they did in Liverpool Street station with all those people dancing, and breakdancer George Sampson winning Britain's Got Talent.
Under the "Previous Employment" section, the following jobs are listed: drum'n'bass pioneer, international DJ, graffiti artist, breakdancer, record producer, painter, actor (The World Is Not Enough and EastEnders, to name just two), alchemist, former Celebrity Big Brother contestant and – wait for it – classical composer.
But then the music stops and Ninja, the champion breakdancer, returns to being 21-year-old Othmane Farhi.
Their delicate, intricate melodies are accompanied by footage of a Sufi swirling, while grime stars Kano and Bashy get shots of a spinning breakdancer, and Albarn waves a huge white flag over the audience (it may not the subtlest of "the value of cultural exchange" messages, but the track is still a superb example of Gorillaz's musical pick'n'mixing).
The second series was won by George Sampson, a teenage breakdancer, and last year's title went to Diversity, a frenetic, inventive troupe from east London.
With the lights dimmed and the music blaring, Ms. Ebony flipped back in a handspring-like maneuver that ended with her landing on her back like a breakdancer.
I got kicked in the knee- hard- by a train breakdancer, and I'll tell you, that hurts!
Yet, not long before, the 23-year-old had embraced foreign – and western – influences, from hip hop music to Real Madrid football club, and was a keen breakdancer, as seen in a video that has surfaced on Facebook.
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