The term hip-hop in its original meaning stands for a cultural movement that consists of the traditional four elements – breaking (widely known as breakdance), writing (graffiti), MCing (rap) and ...

Everybody Dance Now! (EDN!) Santa Barbara was founded by a 14-year-old in 2005 to provide positive dance outlets for at-risk youth. EDN! offers free, weekly, hip-hop dance programming to young people ...

On a late Thursday afternoon, I find several youth and young children taking part in free breakdance classes under the auspices of Imagination Circle Limited at the Economic and Community Development ...

For the first time in Olympics history, breakdance – the hip-hop dance style that grew out of New York City in the 1970s – willl take centre stage at the Paris Olympic Games this summer. To mark the ...

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 ...