The Airflare (or air-flare) refers to an acrobatic maneuver in which the performer rotates the torso around the vertical axis of their body (extending from the head down vertically) while traveling in a circular path along a plane in parallel with the floor. The feet do not touch the ground during the execution of this move, both hands are used to execute standard Airflares.
The move emerged from a similar move called the "Airtrack" in which one rotates in a vertical axis but does not travel in a circular path. That move, the Airtrack, can be traced back to the early 80's. By the 90's a dancer named Paulo Nunes in Europe had created the variation which is essentially the same move as the Airflare. At that time in Europe it was referred to as the Airtwist.
By the mid 90's video arrived by way of EZ-Rock of Rocksteady which introduced the maneuver to the States at that time, in particular, to California B-Boys/Breakdancers. The video showed Paulo as well as a French B-Boy who executed a move very similar to the modern airflare. Meanwhile and soon after the following dancers had performed moves similar before the Continuous Airflare was established:
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