Lord Jamar said breakdancing isn’t an element of Hip-Hop on a podcast, provoking a response from acclaimed turntablist DJ Rob Swift. DJ Rob Swift spoke out against Lord Jamar, who claimed breaking ...

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In the basement of a sports complex in Paris, dozens of breakers, or break dancers, gathered almost every weeknight in July to freestyle, practicing classic moves like the windmill, freezes and ...

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 ...

PARIS (AP) — In the basement of a sports complex in Paris, dozens of breakers, or break dancers, gathered almost every weeknight in July to freestyle, practicing classic moves like the windmill, ...

UNIVERSITY CITY, Mo. — Four new sports will debut at the Paris Olympics this summer. Breaking, also called breakdancing or b-boying, originated in the streets of New York in the 1970s. This form of ...

This story about breakdancing in Paris is part of How Paris Moves, a series of dispatches about communities and social change in France through the lens of the 2024 Summer Olympics. When it opened in ...