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 ...

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 ...

ou’d do well not to look away as b-boys Morgan “Stripes” Andrews and Menno van Gorp take turns entering the breakdance circle, called a cypher — blinking could mean you miss one of their ...

Venezuelan professional breakdance athlete Kenyer Mendez dreams of joining his country's Olympic breakdance team in 2024 Venezuelan professional breakdance athlete Kenyer Mendez dreams of joining his ...

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 ...

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 ...

The internationally renowned Berlin-based "Flying Steps" breakdance company has revolutionized the athletic street dance. DW columnist Gero Schliess is captivated by the sense of freedom the group ...

A man developed a "breakdance bulge" on the top of his head after repeatedly practicing headspins, doctors report. The bulbous lump of tissue, which doctors surgically removed, had become tender to ...

In Paris this summer, breakdancing, or “breaking”, will move from the streets to the stadium as it debuts as an Olympic sport. The street dance form that first took the world by storm in the 1980s is ...

Breakdancers have been urged to avoid headspinning if they develop a so-called “breakdance bulge”, after the unusual case of a dancer who developed a cone-shaped mass on his head. Images show a ...

With topsy-turvy dance moves that require strength, finesse and — obviously — inversions (balancing and/or spinning on one's hands, arms or head), breakdancers face the potential for injury each time ...