But now dawn has broken, crews are back on the scene.
Norteño band or break-dance crew?
(He was a member of a break-dance crew when he was a teen-ager).
A presentation by ILL-Abilities, a Chilean-Californian-Canadian break-dance crew whose members have a variety of physical impairments, powerfully demonstrated the innovative, inclusive and international state of hip-hop culture today.
Scott E. Weaver, 37, a highway construction worker from Butler, N.J., said he made the 45-minute drive because it reminded him of the days in the 80's when he was known as the Interceptor and had a break-dance crew in Pennsylvania called the Laker Breakers.
Along with Dynamic Rockers and Afrika Bambaataa's Mighty Zulu Kings, they are one of the oldest continually active breaking crews.
But travel to their final destination, Antarctica, was prevented by the wall of a wave that crashed through the ship's command station, breaking one crew member's nose and landing the captain's arm in a sling, Kevin Hicks, Hotchkiss's dean of faculty, said Thursday by phone from Lakeville.
"Yo, wassup, Middletown?" bawled the organizer of the event, B-Boy Speedy, an original member of the New York City Breakers, one of the foremost break-dance crews.
Groovy older folks in loose-fitting clothing, break-dance crews with do-rags, Euro nightclubbers sporting tinted shades and office party strays circulated curiously, and calmly, through the zones.
