Break Dancing/ B-Boys n B-Girls

The art of Breakdancing or breaking, also called b-boying or b-girling, is a style of street dance developed by African Americans and Puerto Ricans in The Bronx borough of New York City. During the formative years of Hip Hop. It is commonly believed to come into existence through a disc jockey who lived in the South Bronx, who organized parties in the neighborhood. His name was DJ Kool Herc. Being a DJ, he played at block parties in the early 1970’s in the South Bronx area of New York. He would play the ‘breaks’ of soul and funk songs of artists such as James Brown. .

The ‘breaks’ are the parts of a record without vocals, with pure rhythm, percussion and bass. Kool Herc would isolate these parts of the track and loop them, and encourage the people at the party to get down to these breaks

The Freshest Kids, B Boy History chronicles the history of break dancing during its fancy to current day dancing. Enclosed is a demonstration of break movements to a classic b boy anthem by The Jimmy Castor Bunch – It’s Just Begun 1972. Breaking has become so popular around the world and in the summer of 2024 it will make its debut as an official sport of the Summer Olympics – a historic moment for the breaking culture!