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Several documentary films have been made about breakdancing: The 1983 PBS documentary Style Wars chronicled New York graffiti artists, but also includes some breakdancing. The 2007 documentary Planet B-Boy follows five crews from around the world in their journey to the international breakdancing competition Battle of the Year.
B-boying or Breaking, also called Breakdancing, is a style of street dance that originated among African-American and Puerto Rican youths in New York City during the early 1970s. The dance spread worldwide due to popularity in the media, especially in regions such as South Korea, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Russia, and Japan.
Beat Street is a 1984 American dance drama film featuring New York City hip hop culture of the early 1980s. Set in the South Bronx, the film follows the lives of a pair of brothers and their group of friends, all of whom are devoted to various elements of early hip hop culture, including breakdancing, DJing and graffiti.
Choi started breakdancing her freshman year at the University of Pennsylvania, according to Team USA. She graduated from the Wharton School of Business in 2011 with a bachelor's degree in marketing.
Victor Montalvo was the first American to qualify for the breaking competition in Paris, which takes place Aug. 9 ... Breakdancing was a term created by the media, Montalvo says.
A woman has candidly reflected on her “funny trauma” of her father’s viral breakdancing career. Madi Hart posted a recent video to her TikTok to open about her relationship with her father ...
Breakin' (also known as Breakdance in the United Kingdom and Break Street '84 in other regions [4]) is a 1983 American breakdancing-themed musical film directed by Joel Silberg and written by Charles Parker and Allen DeBevoise based on a story by Parker, DeBevoise and Gerald Scaife.
Several documentaries have been produced based on the competition, including the 2007 feature-length documentary Planet B-Boy. The film premiered at the 2007 TriBeCa Film Festival [11] and was released on DVD on November 11, 2008. A movie based on this competition, called Battle of the Year, was released on September 20, 2013.