Photograph of B-Girl Laneski: Museum Object and Cultural History
Photograph of B-Girl Laneski: date made: 1985. depicted: B-Girl Laneski. Object Name: photograph.
The object in the museum catalogue
Photograph of B-girl Laneski with the breakdance group, Majestic Rockers in New York City, 1985. B-Girl Laneski, (born Lane Davey), was born in Nashville, Tennessee in 1970. Later moving to Seattle, she enrolled in a breakdancing class in 1983, taught by the Seattle Circuit Breakers. The group was impressed with her dancing skills and subsequently gave her the name LaneSki. A pioneer in the male dominated Hip Hop world, Laneski was one of the first female breakdancers to master and develop many of the dance moves created in the early 1980s.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1985
- depicted: B-Girl Laneski
- Object Name: photograph
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Physical Description: ink (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 8 in x 10 in; 20.32 cm x 25.4 cm
- Subject: Hip-Hop
- ID Number: 2006.0192.03
- accession number: 2006.0192
- catalog number: 2006.0192.03
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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