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The OGs of Up Rock

The OGs are the rockers who danced Up Rock in Brooklyn from the late 1960s, and the ones who brought it back and took it abroad. What every rocker knows today, in every country, comes from them.

Ink comic illustration: in an old brick gym with tall arched windows, four students side by side copy the low Up Rock drop, facing a veteran in a fedora who demonstrates it, while another in a flat cap watches and a gray-haired woman in a beret claps

King Uprock, the base of what all of us who came after have learned.

We are still transcribing and checking the interviews. Each OG gets a page when the work on them is finished, not before.