Black Horizons Flashback 5
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This Black Horizons Flashback features a clip of the breakdance group “The Robonic Tick Tockers”.
This Black Horizons Flashback features a recorded dance practice of the breakdance group “The Robonic Tick Tockers” at the Kingsley Center in the mid-1980s. The clip is narrated by Elmer McClung, the program director at the Kingsley Center.
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Black Horizons is a local public television program presented by WQED
Black Horizons Flashback 5
Clip | 1m 44sVideo has Closed Captions
This Black Horizons Flashback features a recorded dance practice of the breakdance group “The Robonic Tick Tockers” at the Kingsley Center in the mid-1980s. The clip is narrated by Elmer McClung, the program director at the Kingsley Center.
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Now let's take a look back at what was fresh in the mid 80s at the Kingsley Center when it was located at Penn Circle in East Liberty.
In this Black Horizons flashback.
I started in my living room.
My wife was sitting at hom one day, and I came home early, and my so and a couple of his friends were demonstrating for my wife, body waving and breaking.
I looked at this and I said to them, what are you doing?
And they said, this is what the new fad is.
It's called breaking.
And I said, I don't believe that the human body is designed to do this.
And I stood there and watched them begin to go through their demonstration of breakdancing.
And it was going along fine until one of the gentleman kicked my TV.
At which point I decided that it was time for them to leave my living room, and I offered him to come over here to the center.
We have a lot of space for them to practice, and rehearse.
That's the voice of Elmer McClung as he talked about the Roboni TikTokers, a group of young men who were showing their moves when breakdancing was getting started here in Pittsburgh.
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Black Horizons is a local public television program presented by WQED