“Flexing is a really incredible dance form to come from the streets,” said Schoo, who lives in Bedford-Stuyvesant. “One of its defining factors is that it’s narrative.” ...

Flexing Dance Style at Bounce Ballroom, Red Bull Music Academy Festival New York 2014, in Brooklyn, NY, USA, on 1 May, 2014.

Like ballet. Flex, recognized by its contortions, pausing, gliding and bone breaking, was born in the early ’90s out of a Jamaican style of street dance called bruk up [Jamaican-style street dance].

Flexing, a dance craze that started on the streets of Brooklyn, is being used to protest against racial injustice in a show that pairs performers from New York and Manchester.

Flexing, a dance craze that started on the streets of Brooklyn, is being used to protest against racial injustice in a show that pairs performers from New York and Manchester.