But krumping (or clown-dancing) is not just about dancing. It is a language, a lifestyle, a type of performance art which has caught on and is spreading like wildfire through the streets of LA's ...

History of Tommy the Clown - The Godfather of Krumping Thanks to his prominent influence, young adults and children for the last three decades have joined Tommy’s crew, known as the “Hip Hop ...

Gardner has been involved with the dance since its origin. She, Lil’ C and other dancers in their crew began with clown dancing, an early form of krumping. Gardner said that krump evolved from a ...

For parents who want their children to express themselves in the form of clowning and krumping, Tommy offers classes at his Tommy the Clown Hip Hop Academy.

In the meantime, “Rize” makes a good case for the spirit of Krumping, and gives background into how this dance emerged from the Los Angeles ghetto. All credit goes to a clown. Tommy the Clown ...

It's called krumping, or clown dancing. "When you krump dance, you're expressing the way you feel," says Lawrence Gojit, aka Solow. "Instead of saying it in a sentence, you say it in repeated body ...

(Wesley Lapointe / Los Angeles Times) In the early 2000s, he started hosting weekly clown-dancing battles, pushing the performances in a rougher, more hyperkinetic direction: krumping ...

even though elements of krumping, clowning (created in the early ’90s by Thomas Johnson a.k.a. Tommy the Clown) and stripperdance are incorporated into in the routines depicted in the film.

WHAT IT IS: While krumping evolved from “clowning,” taught by entertainer Tommy the Clown: to legions of at-risk kids, it’s less silly than its progenitor. As documented in the 2005 film ...

Jennifer Lopez’s beau got his start as part of the krumping dance crew ... baggy clothing and painted his face with clown makeup. Smart hasn’t been in touch with Blackston in years, Hip ...