Editing Crip Walk (section)

{{Short description|Dance move}}
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{{Infobox dance
|title        = Crip Walk
|image        = Cwalk Vietnam.webm
|imagesize    =
|alt          =
|caption      = Demonstration of the crip walk
|genre        = [[Hip-hop dance]]
|signature    =
|inventor     = 
|year         = Early 1970s
|origin       = [[Compton, California]], U.S.
}}

The '''Crip Walk''', also known as the '''C-Walk''', is a [[dance move]] that was created in the 1970s by first generation [[Crips|Crip]] members<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bailey |first1=Richard W. |title=Speaking American: A History of English in the United States |date=23 January 2012 |publisher=Oxford University Press, USA |isbn=978-0-19-517934-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NAm10sd9YMAC&dq=history+%22crip+walk%22+dance&pg=PA176 |language=en}}</ref> as a method of expression and communication, and has since spread worldwide without its linguistic aspects.<ref>{{cite conference|author=Richard Thomas|title=A new dialogue|work=2006 European Workshop on Design & Semantics of Form & Movement on October 26, 2006 in Eindhoven, the Netherlands|pages=12|url=http://www.bealinstitute.org/projects/files/Official_Desform_publication.pdf#page=12|format=PDF|publisher=Beal Institute for Strategic Creativity|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090108004711/http://www.bealinstitute.org/projects/files/Official_Desform_publication.pdf#page=12|archive-date=January 8, 2009|df=mdy-all}}</ref>