The first misunderstanding is a tricky one. It's the result of a neverending argument about the terminology of hip-hop, and a lot of hardliners stating 'breaking is hip-hop' without giving the context ...

Raygun received 0 points for her viral performance at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games Rene Nijhuis/BSR Agency/Getty Raygun will not compete at the Olympics again. The Australian breakdancer, who went ...

To the tune of a Miles Davis trumpet solo, Menno van Gorp is stepping up his training ahead of this year’s Paris Olympics. The jazz musician has been an influential figure in van Gorp’s breakdance ...

The remaining 26 athletes were selected through last year's World Championships, the respective continental Games (Africa, Asia, Europe, Pan American and Oceania) and the Olympic Qualification Series ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jason Pu is a researcher and a b-boy/breaker covering hip hop dance Nov 30, 2025, 06:09pm EST Australia's Jeffrey Dan Arpie Dunne, ...

Liu Qingyi, 16-year-old girl from Central China's Henan Province, won the global breakdance competition at the Outbreak Europe 2022 in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia on Sunday, achieving a major ...

Breakdance Revolution in Paris. For the first time in the history of the Games, the street dance born in the seventies in the suburbs of the United States debuted as an Olympic discipline, amidst rain ...

Is the world ready to pop and lock for gold? Olympic organizers in Paris formally submitted breakdancing as a new competition they want to introduce to the games when they come to the City of Lights ...

There are a lot of myths and misunderstandings about the differences between breakdance and hip-hop forms of dance – here we clear up five of them. The first misunderstanding is a tricky one. It's the ...