Breakdancing

Breakdancing, or breaking, is a competitive street dance combining upright steps, floor-based footwork, power moves, freezes, and improvisation, usually performed to breakbeat music.

Toprock: The upright steps and gestures that commonly begin a breaking round. It establishes a dancer’s rhythm and style before movement reaches the floor.
Breaking battle: A head-to-head or team competition in which breakers perform rounds for an audience or judges. The battle is breaking’s central format for testing style and response.
Bronx: A borough of New York City, associated with the emergence of hip-hop culture in the 1970s. Breaking took shape in Bronx youth culture during hip-hop’s early development.
Rock Steady Crew: A New York breaking crew founded in the 1970s and known for helping popularize the dance internationally. Its performances and media appearances brought breaking to wider audiences.
Breakin': A 1984 American film centered on street dancers and breaking culture. The film helped popularize breaking internationally while shaping popular images of the dance.
Downrock: Floor-based footwork performed with the hands supporting the body. Its patterns supply the grounded movement vocabulary of breaking.
Breaking round: One uninterrupted performance turn by a breaker or crew during a battle. Its sequence of moves gives dancers room to build a coherent statement.
Hip-hop: A cultural movement encompassing music, dance, visual art, and forms of expression rooted in Black and Latino communities. Breaking is one of hip-hop’s foundational dance forms.
Crazy Legs: A Puerto Rican American breaker and member of the Rock Steady Crew. His performances and teaching helped spread breaking beyond New York.
Battle of the Year: An international crew-based breaking competition first held in 1990. It helped build a worldwide circuit for team battles.

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