Buffalo New York's Premier Hip Hop Dance Battle - Battle @ Buffalo
Freestyle Hip Hop Dance Battle Crowning Two Champions Each Year
This is my second time attending the annual Battle @ Buffalo - Under The Lights. It's an event to watch Buffalo grow and expand and maintain it’s roots through different styles of dance, art, food and music. Each year people strive to bring new style and talent that hasn't been seen before as they create dance moves to songs ad lib style. You can view dancers completely in tune with the music creatively responding with each beat and pop of a bass drum or snare.
This year I decided to document it through a mixture of photos and videos. All photos and videos were done by me and edited together from hundreds of photos and hours of video. This is what I consider to be the best of the best.
My favorite event is the two person team battles that pit dancers against each other through a variety of songs and have the judges pick a winner as to who wowed the crowd more. This event draws people from Pittsburg to New York City to Canada, and many places in between.
Without further ado, check out these photos and videos (All taken and edited by me @bendjmiller222 )
The guy in the purple shirt won again (AKA "Genocide") win a different partner this year and has some incredible flexible fluidity to his moves. It was another great show and later on there was a B Boy dance competition, but I personally prefer the "All Styles" freestyle dance.
This took quite some time to curate and put together, so this is the reason I haven't been posting as frequently. (Have not hit writer's block one bit.
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I would have loved to be there. I'm a pretty good hip hop dancer myself.
💋 @halo 💋😇
I'm gonna tell you to prove it :) Might be fun for your next post if you decide to show off your dance talent.
Didn't know that youre fan of dancing bro
I've tried my hand (foot?) at it. See if you can pick me out haha
Is that you wearing orange shirt?
No haha I was a viewer only and not a participant.
at first I thought it was Les Twins!
Nevertheless, they have some talent, great post!
Thanks @sirwinchester. They were from Pittsburg and the winner in the purple shirt was from NYC (I believe). Some of my very talented friends did not dance in it this year. The studio that runs the contest is very heavily biased towards B boy dancing and the prize for the all styles is $500 and for the B boy it's $1500. Still an awesome show, but I hope to bring my friends here soon as we are working together to make some stellar intro posts as we speak and generating new ideas.
Definitely need more talented young passionate dancers here who live through music and have it as more than a hobby / job. It's a lifestyle and I'm sure it has saved more than one life since it is an expression of ones self in the same way art or poetry reflects the feelings of people who use those mediums.
I haven't seen you paint yet, but I have a feeling you could probably rock out some cool graffiti or interesting drawn artwork.
I have a lot of respect for B Boys and their craft. It takes a tremendous amount of strength, flexibility and coordination to dance like that!
It most certainly does. I believe that it garners more respect, but I personally like freestyle hip hop without as much breakdancing thrown in. Just a personal preference similar to liking one genre of music more than another