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  2. Breaking at the Olympics is a testament to hip-hop's ...

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    Breaking at the Olympics is a testament to hip-hop's influence around the world. Char Adams. July 25, 2024 at 1:31 PM. Leila Register. Logan Edra grew up learning about the four elements of hip ...

  3. Breaking (aka breakdancing) at the Olympics: Huh? Why? How ...

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    Breaking is a type of dance with four main elements: Toprock or Uprock: Breakers begin upright, then transition to the floor. Downrock: The flashiest, quickest part of the dance.

  4. Mourad Merzouki brings hip-hop dance to the Olympic stage in ...

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    “The DNA of breaking and hip-hop dance is competition. It was battles. It’s a continuation of this great story of hip-hop. I hope the visibility will allow this dance to be better recognized ...

  5. Breakdancing - Wikipedia

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    Hip-Hop Dance Conservatory "Breaking or b-boying is generally misconstrued or incorrectly termed as 'breakdancing'. Breakdancing is a term spawned from the loins of the media's philistinism, sciolism, and naïveté at that time. With no true knowledge of the hip-hop diaspora but with an ineradicable need to define it for the nescient masses ...

  6. Rachael Gunn - Wikipedia

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    Rachael Louise Gunn [2] was born on 2 September 1987 [3] in Hornsby, New South Wales. [4] She danced as a child, and was trained in ballroom, tap, and jazz styles. [4] [5]Gunn attended Barker College [6] and then Macquarie University, completing a bachelor's degree in contemporary music, graduating in 2009, and a PhD in cultural studies, graduating in 2017. [7]

  7. Hip hop dance - Wikipedia

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    Hip hop dance is a range of street dance styles primarily performed to hip hop music or that have evolved as part of hip hop culture. It is influenced by a wide range of styles that were created in the 1970s and made popular by dance crews in the United States. The television show Soul Train and the 1980s films Breakin', Beat Street, and Wild ...

  8. Who Is Raygun? Meet the Olympic Aussie Breakdancer Who Went ...

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    Raygun isn’t only a professional dancer in practice — she also has a degree in researching the sport. The breaker studied contemporary music and cultural studies at Macquarie University and ...

  9. History of hip hop dance - Wikipedia

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    The history of hip-hop dances encompasses the people and events since the late 1960s that have contributed to the development of early hip-hop dance styles, such as uprock, breaking, locking, roboting, boogaloo, and popping. African Americans created uprock and breaking in New York City. African Americans in California created locking, roboting ...