Oh, raygun.
Class back.
My name is Rachel Gunn, but my main peeps know me as Raygun.
What people don’t understand about breaking
is that it’s not just a dance.
It’s not just a sport. It’s a lifestyle when you’re a B girl.
Is this really Rachel Grubb?
Nah, bro.
And the next time I’m hitting the sprinkler,
I’m rolling around on the floor,
you know, just comes over me.
I have a PhD in dance culture,
so that makes me good at it.
Uh, good at dance.
Breaking represents life. So,
for example, when I hit my signature kangaroo
move, Australia
ray gun. A lot of people miss that.
I’m actually professor,
and I teach about the cultural politics of breakdancing.
And breaking was invented by African American teens in New York City
in the 1970s. So I thought,
who better to represent that culture than me?
Oh, mate,
people are saying I was appropriating dance culture
because I’m a white woman.
But here’s the thing. When you’ve already decolonized dance,
as I have done, you can’t then recolonize it.
It cancels out. So this is bloody. Bloody.
I don’t know. But she,
you know, she did so bad,
they cancelled her from the next Olympic.
Oh, really?
No, really.