“I want to spin on my head!” Grant DeGroot, of Mount Prospect, exclaims. One among dozens enrolled in something called The Breaking Program, he’s about to learn moves from backspins to box steps.

Breakdancing is making its professional debut at the Olympics this year.This style of dance is known as "breaking," and has been a competitive form of street performance for decades. The local dance ...

As a DJ spins music, the athletes twist, whirl and leap — each move a dizzying mix of fancy footwork and contorted limbs. It might seem more like an artform than a sport, but breakdancing — known ...

Never before has breakdancing featured at an Olympic Games. Proponents of the sport hoped its inclusion this year in Paris would inspire a new generation of breakdancing girls and boys, known as ...

Rachael “Raygun” Gunn is hanging up her breakdancing shoes. The Australian competitive bgirl shared that her professional breaking career is over after receiving criticism over her 2024 Paris Olympics ...

This story was produced by our colleagues at the BBC. Ryan, 10, and Precious, 11, are some of the children I met at Dance Studio Manchester, who were taking part in a breaking workshop. “It’s just ...

NEW YORK - The 2024 Olympics being held in Paris added a few events this time around. One notable addition is breakdancing. According to the World DanceSport Federation, breakdancing or "breaking" is ...

Ask any b-boy or b-girl in the world that name the moment that changed everything, someone says in the Andscape documentary “Breakin’ on the One,” and they’ll cite the battle at Lincoln Center that ...

“I used to see kids breakdancing under the railroad tracks and would think to myself, ‘I’d probably be one of them if I were young,’” she said, confessing that her parents had started her in Nihonbuyo ...

WATCH THE B GIRLS COMPETE FOR AN OLYMPIC MEDAL. I FEEL LIKE WE’RE BEING SEEN THAT HIP HOP IS BEING RECOGNIZED ON THE LEVEL THAT IT SHOULD BE. FOR B GIRLS COMPETING IN THE BREAKDANCING SEMIFINALS AND ...

NEW YORK — Emceeing, DJing, graffiti, knowledge and break dancing. These are the five elements of one of the most popular and controversial genres that has influenced generations of young artists ...