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gravity's resignation letter, signed by kids who turned cardboard into a throne
means To perform an athletic, acrobatic style of street dance featuring spins, freezes, and footwork done close to or on the ground.
from A plain English compound: "break" plus "dance." The "break" comes from the dancers themselves — in the early 1970s Bronx, DJs like Kool Herc would loop the "break" of a record, the stripped-down percussion section, and the kids who danced hardest during that stretch became "break-boys" and "break-girls," shortened to b-boys and b-girls. "Breakdancing" was largely a media label that stuck once the form went mainstream; many practitioners have always preferred the older term "breaking."
- olympic debut
- became a medal sport at Paris 2024
- bronx birth
- born at 1970s block parties, not studios
- wrong name
- originators call it breaking, not breakdancing
- the freeze
- hardest moves are perfect stillness, not motion
- break beats
- named for dancing the song's drum break
battle of the year — annual international breakdancing competition held in potsdam, germany since 1990
red bull bc one — premier 1v1 breakdancing championship held annually since 2004 in rotating cities
rock steady crew — legendary new york breakdancing crew founded in the bronx in 1977