Breaking, pioneered by African American and Puerto Rican youth, emerged in the Bronx in the early 1970s. Some fifty years later, the urban dance form is a worldwide phenomenon and was included in the 2024 Olympic Games. (It will not be included in the Los Angeles Games of 2028.) Tellingly, among the b-boy and b-girl medalists, just one American man took home a medal"a bronze"and the top winners also represented Canad…
