Dance
Meet Neguin, the winner of Red Bull Dance Your Style USA
Red Bull BC One All Star Neguin won Dance Your Style USA 2019 to become the only dancer to have competed in the World Finals of Dance Your Style and BC One.
Born Fabiano Carvalho Lopes, Neguin began dancing at the age of 14 on the vibrant streets of his hometown, Paraná, a Brazilian city where dance is a way of life. Starting off with freestyle and social dance, he added breaking to his dance vocabulary in 2003. It only took him a few years before he began scooping up wins, battling in his native Brazil and beyond.
Neguin's approach to breaking is at once celebratory, psychological and aggressive. A very confident dancer, he likes to look into his opponent's eyes to communicate non-verbally that he's going to win. He uses special strategies and tactics to outperform anyone he battles, using his own style at every moment in every battle.
Neguin describes his style as involving death-defying jumps, blitz-speed movement, unpredictability, clean execution of his arsenal and variations in each ground and power move, infused with flavour and high energy while keeping a constant rhythm. While Neguin takes physical risks, he pulls off his moves safely and effectively. He respects his fellow dancers and shares positive energy through his presence and craft. Neguin aims to have his audience experience joy, curiosity and surprise when watching him in a battle. He not only represents himself, but he also dances for his crew and country. This is most important to him.
Neguin does a backflip
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Skills and strategies have earned Neguin a vast collection of first-place titles at notable competitions spanning Argentina to Paraguay to Brazil. Among the highlights of his B-Boy career he lists battling in both 2007 and 2008 at R16 Korea, O Duelo 2008 in Brazil, Coosh Crash Test 2008 in the USA, the Battle Of The Year 2008 in Brazil, Humanitarian Massy Battle 2009 in France and the World B-Boy Classics in Holland. He appears on many of the B-Boy battle DVDs produced off the back of these competitions, as well as short movies and commercials produced in Brazil. He also toured with Madonna on her MDNA tour.
Dancers who have had profound influence on Neguin include Ken Swift, Machine, Ivan and K Mel. He admires K Mel because of his 'free' style of dancing in every situation. B-Boy Ivan is one of Neguin's greatest influences because of his style and constant energy.
Neguin eventually became a Capoeira instructor as well, but currently he makes a living from B-Boying. He used to work as a B-Boy teacher in a social project called Arte nos Bairros in São Paulo and gave dance workshops across Brazil. He has also lived in both New York City and London, teaching B-Boy classes, judging battles and performing with a London Dance company in the celebrated show Blaze.
Neguin won Dance Your Style USA
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Neguin delves into several foundational elements of hip-hop culture, including graffiti, DJing and other styles of street dance.
Feeling blessed with support, positivity and encouragement from his family, Neguin reveals, "They taught me about the good things in life: education, culture and always enjoying what I do."
