JabberWockeeZ Winer Of America’s Best Dance Crew

Let me reiterate the congratulatory pomp with which the America’s Best Dance Crew judges have plied upon JabberwockeeZ over the past few weeks: You were totally sick! Ill! You smashed it! Hit it like no other! Killed it, bro! And as executive producer Randy Jackson said as he came out to officially announce JabberwockeeZ as this season’s winner, “You guys ripped it!”Thirty-eight million people called in to cast their vote for finalists JabberWockeeZ and Status Quo, a record-breaking number for the show as well as staggering and unexpected digits for a premiere that was just getting on the dance-hype band wagon. Let’s break down and figure out why the show was so crazy successful.

Traditional street dancing, unlike its snobby caviar-dabbing remote third cousin ballet, belongs to the people. It was born on the sidewalks of the urban ghetto by kids who could talk fast and bend their bodies against gravity to underground music. They danced for their bread and butter, their lives, and expressed that living-on-the-edge mentality through this mostly discredited art form. In fact, it wouldn’t be off the mark to say these dancers perform a sort of social revolution, something much needed in our everyday lives.