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Show I I Page IB Lakeside Review Wednesday, July 10, 1985 CLEARFIELD Darrell DJ tall in black shirt and pants, bandana tied beneath his black hat, in shocking green laced shoes, goes into a wave." Staying with the musics punk funk beat, starting with his hand, he sends the wavfe up to his shoulder, while walking down invisible steps. His hat in his teeth, the wave goes up to send his hat flipping onto his head. He melts to the floor where he suddenly locks his hands onto an invisible steering wheel and blows out real fire. That routine, he says, is the one audi- ticing, moving my arms, miming a Jim-merso- Hes trying to get permission to do another legal graffiti type painting at the center. When he gets back home he wants to design greeting cards. At the center he is learning a trade to fall back on while looking for the kind of job he wants. ro- bot. He learned to pop bones, mime and blow real smoke from invisible cigarettes. Its like to not have anything but use what youve got - like youre touching things, moving things, connecting pipes, looking like the cartoons." Marcel Marceau, the famous French mime was one of his idols, as far as miming, he says. He could tell you things with his body, make things out of air. I really like to do it with the kids. I like kids. I try to help them do that rather than going out on the streets," Jimmerson says. I taught a lot of kids back home. I taught my brother, Johnny. Hes better than I am, now. Jimmerson was 16 the first time he danced before an audience. I used to hide away in my room and just let my friends see my personal stuff. I was really shy," he says. He got over it when he saw the audi- ences like best. Jimmerson, 21, from Kansas City, Kan., is studying building maintenance at the Clearfield Job Corps Center. He and Benzo, Keith Crazy Man Thurman, Little Dragon, Little Spinning Top, Bobby Proctor, and Hop Along also from the center, have a breakdancing group that entertains wherever we go. Breakdancing takes its steps from black dancers like those of the Fifties who used to slide in circles and walk along the stage with legs like rubber while staying with the beat. To todays breakdancers the beat is punk funk, Jimmerson says. The moves are also taken from dancers Shields and Yamell, who made slow motion mime entertaining on television in the Seventies. There are three types of breakdancing, Jimmerson says. Popping is in snapping movements. Breaking is spinning and doing other things close to the floor, and miming is doing waves and robot moves. In New York, its hard popping, snapping. In Los Angeles its more breaking, and miming. People pick up styles from the different places they go and combine them," Jimmerson ence clap. Jimmerson, also an aritst, got permission at the center to paint an artistic graffiti, No parking sign on one of the driveways. . free-sty- le -- says. He started breakdancing after a trip to Oakland, Calif., at the age of 7. There, a dancer he saw, Jeffery Daniels, from the group Shalimar, became his idol, he says. When he got home to Kansas he began practicing in the mirror. Everyone thought it was strange, but I just followed the beat, and kept prac DRAGON FIRE, . JIMMERSON poses on graffiti sign he painted. one of Jimmersons breakdance moves, is a real attention-gette- r, most likely done by only a few breakdancers. He says he cant tell how its done. 1 0 |