Hip-hop student holds U Pines break dance class

Seventeen students gathered at the University Pines clubhouse Tuesday for a one-time break dancing class taught by Brooke Bradley. Bradley, a former hip-hop (urban dancing) student at a studio in Longview, sought to teach fellow students a dance to “The Master Beat” remix song, along with any other tricks such as, floor poses and spinning flips.

Freshman Dasha Gillispie attended to “become an amazing break-dancer, and learn to spin and pose.” The class also attracted inexperienced dancers. “I’ve never break danced before, so I wanted to try it out,” University student Ashley Meneoza said.

The class started off with headstands proving difficult for most students, but they later proved themselves true break-dancers by mastering the hip-hop portion of the class, which was a dance Bradley had learned from a music video on YouTube created by Larz and Marley.