‘Brukup’ Is Back: YouTube Helps Revive Brooklyn-Caribbean Street Dance

“Started in Jamaica in the early ’90s by a street dancer with a broken leg, brukup flourished in Brooklyn’s space-deprived housing projects and had a flirtation with pop culture in 1997 … Instead of fading into obscurity like so many other urban dance crazes (remember the Worm?), it evolved, thanks in part to YouTube videos.”