OFFICIAL WEBSITE of a history of a streetdance style of “Campbellocking to Locking

                       OVER 20 years Lockerlegends have served your Locking educational need

NOW ON TO THE WEBSITE

OUR LOCKERS STREET DANCE WEBSITE

This website is not about any particular individual dancer or group. It’s not just about who did what.

Although we try to recognize the legends that contributed to actual street message during trying times in American history.   

It’s not about the commercial success of an act or performance. 

It is about something greater than money & fame it’s about the streetdance itself and its significance to the cultural /political movement of its era of origin. And how ALL of that came about. 

Our purpose is to simply 

“Educate B4U Recreate”   

Created by the street dance pioneers

OVER 20 years Lockerlegends have served your Locking education

NEW EDITORIALS:

 EDITORIAL  “IS THERE POLITICS IN LOCKING”

EDITORIAL “What is social party dance ?

Why are so many Pioneers & Ogs so concerned with African American History ?

“20 years in revue PAGE”

THE ART-FORM & CULTURE OF A STREET DANCE IS MUCH MORE THAN THE MOVES THAT CREATE THE DANCE STYLE. THE ORIGINAL DANCE STYLE WAS CALLED CAMPBELLOCKING. (A style of socially couple dancing  created by Don Campbell ) THAT STYLE THAT HAD DEEP ROOTS WITHIN A ERA’S SOCIAL POLITICAL MOVEMENT OF THE 1960s , WHICH MENT SO MUCH TO THE UNITY AND DE SEGREGATION OF A PEOPLE…READ…LEARN ABOUT HOW THAT STYLE OF DANCING CREATED A STREET DANCE MOVEMENT WITHIN THE AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY, THAT SPREADED FROM THE CLUBS , HODEPARTIES, SCHOOLS AND OTHER SOCIAL FUNCTIONS FROM AFRICAN AMERICAN INNER CITY COMMUNITIES OF “Southern California”  TO OTHER COMMUNITIES , BRIDGING THE GAP OF A THEN SEGREGATED SOCIETY

 WE INTEND TO INCLUDE ORGANIZATIONS LIKE WATTS WRITERS WORKSHOP, THE TV DANCE SHOW “SOUL TRAIN”,THE WATTS STAX CONCERT AND THE MANY COMMUNITY ACTIVIST WHO STOOD UP IN THE 1960S AND 1970S. WE FIND THEY WERE JUST AS IMPORTANT TO A STREETDANCE MOVEMENT AS THE DANCERS THEMSELVES THEY CONTRIBUTED AND INSPIRED THE MANY EARLY PIONEERS INCLUDING THE ORIGINATOR OF THE STYLE ITSELF , DON CAMPBELL MANY CONTRIBUTED TO THE EVOLUTION OF THIS UNIQUE STYLE IN ORDER FOR IT TO BECOME AN ACTUAL CULTURAL MOVEMENT IN STREETDANCE. THEY WERE MORE THAN SIMPLY ENTERTAINERS. AND THE DANCE WAS MORE THAN SIMPLY ENTERTAINMENT. THEY WERE ADVACATES OF A MESSGE THROUGH FUNK AND SOUL MUSIC WHO,S MESSGE WAS SO POWERFUL FOR CHANGE THAT IT INSPIRED A UNIQUE RHYTHMIC EXPRESSION IN DANCE

 “THE STREET DANCE OF LOCKING”

 Help us solidify this as it is embraced by the world by both a dance style into and an actual street dance  ART-FORM, with meaning and purpose to be passed down to future generations !

WITHOUT THIS IT WILL LOSE ITS SOUL

The unity of dance and Locking was expressed at the 1972 Watts Stax concert

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Our New Generation has been inspired by the old, However understanding the mission and resposibility to pass on the movement with respect is the challenge issued by the YOUR old school today,Back in the day social poets Gil Scott Heron put out that challenge to the youth of  the 1960s & 70s,,,AND we responded ! YES THERE WAS RAP back then ,and there was a street movement ,Even though the term “HipHop  hadn’t been coined back then