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| Genre | Hip-hop dance |
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| Inventor | Street dancers |
| Year | Early 1980s |
| Origin | New York City (NYC) |
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Breakdancing or breaking, also called b-boying (when performed by men) or b-girling (women), is a style of street dance originated by African Americans and Puerto Ricans in the Bronx.[1][2][3]
Breakdancing consists mainly of four kinds of movement—toprock, downrock, power moves, and freezes—and is typically set to songs containing drum breaks, especially in funk, soul, and hip-hop. Its modern dance elements originated among the poor youth of New York during the early 1980s.[4] It is tied to the birth of hip-hop, whose DJs developed rhythmic break for dancers.[5]
The dance form has expanded globally, with an array of organizations and independent competitions supporting its growth. Breaking became an Olympic sport at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris,[6] as per a December 7, 2020 decision by the International Olympic Committee, after a proposal by the World DanceSport Federation.[7]
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- ^ Chang, Jeff (2007). "It's a Hip-Hop World". Foreign Policy (163): 58–65. ISSN 0015-7228. JSTOR 25462232.
- ^ Hall, Josh (2020). "From the Bronx to the world: The birth and evolution of hip-hop". Red Bull. Retrieved December 13, 2022.
- ^ "2024 Paris Summer Olympics will feature breakdancing". Yahoo! News. January 19, 2023. Retrieved March 20, 2023.
- ^ "Breaking officially added to Olympic Games Paris 2024". worlddancesport.org. December 12, 2020.