REUTERS: Breakdancing cleared its final hurdle to feature in the Paris 2024 Games on Monday, bringing the wholly original, electric art form to sport's biggest stage.
"It can resonate with a lot of people because hip-hop culture resonates with a lot of people, hip-hop music resonates with a lot of people," Logan Edra, a 17-year-old American dancer who goes by the performance name Logistx and has performed on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, told Reuters. "It being in the Olympics, it makes sense that people would refer to it as but I think one thing for the breaking community is we want to make sure that it’s not known as just a sport but an art, a sport, a culture," said Edra, who won the 2018 Silverback Open Championship B-Girl solo competition.Key elements in breaking include top rocks - typically a competitor's introductory dance moves - footwork, power moves and freezes.
"The biggest part is your stage presence and character and your rhythm, whether or not you’re really feeling it," said Ronnie Abaldonado, a competitive breaker since 2004 who won the international Red Bull BC One competition in 2007.