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One Gun is an African Korean performance which fuses African Rituals with Korean Street Dancing. It was created by Karl Xiang (an American) in 1979. The first ever performance of One Gun was in the streets of South Carolina by the original crew, Karl Xiang, Jonathon Gregory & Bruce Taylor.

First 3 performances

The first performance was in the streets of South Carolina in 1981, people was charged $10 to see the performance only 14 people went to see the fusion dancing.

The second performance was on a small field in Alabama in 1983, they hired 10,000 seats and charged £9.99. 8,341 seats were sold and they earned $83,326 each member was paid $20,000 the rest was saved for the next performance.

The third performance was held in Mexico City on August 15 1985 to celebrate Karls younger brother Lees birth. The y hired 15,000 seats and offered people Videos of the performance, to see the performance live in was $15 & to buy the Video it was $5. All the seats were sold and 29 Videos were bought, $225,125 was earned on that day.

Death of Jonathon

In 1988 at a performance in Johannesberg, South Africa in front of 23,000 people someone shot Jonathon Gregory directly in the heart. He was alive for 3 hours before pronounced dead at 9.27pm May 7 1988.

New Members, New Performances

On January 14 1995 Lee Xiang, Rodger Clement & Patrick Springs met up with Karl Xiang & Bruce Taylor to discuss the future of the One Gun performances. On January 20 1995 the crew was back together and in a larger number thanks to Lee, Rodger & Patrick. Together they created 2 other performances and even though Lee was only 9 years-old at the time he created the idea of "Anal Fire Eater" which became the second richest performance the team had ever done. The other performance was created by Jonathon Gregory in 1986, The Penguin Race, in which the team would travel around the world combinding different cultural performances, This was the richest performance the team had ever done.