Get down

Get down is a stance, posture or movement in many traditional African cultures and throughout the African diaspora. It involves bending at the waist and knees, bringing the body low to the ground in moments of ecstasy or intensity. Bending at the knees and waist is an expression of profound spirituality and connectedness to the earth. It also indicates suppleness and conveys qualities and values of vitality, youthfulness and energy.

In Gahu choreography, often dancers move counterclockwise in a circle of alternating men and women; their performance includes "long passages of a lightly bouncy basic 'step' leavened with brief 'get down' sections in which the dancers lower their center of weight and move with intensified strength and quickness."

The term "get down" in popular music and slang is directly related to this particular element of the African aesthetic, filtered through the African-American experience. Use of the term by white Americans since the middle-20th century, though, is credited to the influence of a white disc jockey, Bill "Hoss" Allen, who used it on his nightly soul music shows on Nashville, Tennessee station WLAC.

Get Down

Get Down may refer to:

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The Get Down

The Get Down is an upcoming musical drama television series created by Baz Luhrmann and Shawn Ryan that is slated to debut in 2016 on Netflix. The first season will be thirteen 1-hour episodes in length and will be produced by Sony Pictures Television. The first six episodes of the series will premiere on August 12, 2016.

Main cast

Grandmaster Flash

Joseph Saddler (born January 1, 1958), better known as Grandmaster Flash, is an American hip hop recording artist and DJ. He is considered to be one of the pioneers of hip-hop DJing, cutting, and mixing. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007, becoming the first hip hop act to be so honored.

Early life

Joseph Saddler's family migrated to the United States from Barbados, in the Caribbean, and he grew up in The Bronx, New York. He attended Samuel Gompers High School, a public vocational school, where he learned how to repair electronic equipment. Saddler's parents played an important role in his interest in music. His parents came from Barbados and his father was a big fan of Caribbean and black American records. As a child, Saddler was fascinated by his father's record collection. In an interview, he reflected: "My father was a very heavy record collector. He still thinks that he has the stronger collection. I used to open his closets and just watch all the records he had. I used to get into trouble for touching his records, but I'd go right back and bother them." Saddler's early interest in DJing came from this fascination with his father's record collection as well as his mother's desire for him to educate himself in electronics. After high school, he became involved in the earliest New York DJ scene, attending parties set up by early luminaries.

Justice Smith

Justice Smith (August 9, 1995) is an American film and television actor, best known for playing Radar in the film Paper Towns.

Early life

Smith was born in California on August 9, 1995, and graduated in acting in 2013 from the Orange County School of the Arts.

Career

In 2014, Smith appeared in the Nickelodeon's superhero comedy series The Thundermans, he played a recurring role of Angus in two episodes. He also appeared in the HBO's documentary series Masterclass and VlogBrothers.

In 2015, Smith played a supporting role, Marcus "Radar" Lincoln, in the comedy-drama Paper Towns, opposite with Nat Wolff and Cara Delevingne. The film was directed by Jake Schreier and released on July 24, 2015 by 20th Century Fox.

Smith will play a lead role, Ezekiel, in Netflix's musical drama series The Get Down, which is scheduled to premiere in 2016.

Filmography

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Television

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