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Breaking Through: One Photographer’s Mission to Capture Hip Hop’s Underground Roots

Breakdancing is now an Olympic sport. But Frankie Perez wants to show the world that breaking still thrives in the streets

His intention was only to film himself breaking, but he began to develop a love of photographing the people drifting about his world and capturing, with a participant’s eye, the subculture’s frenetic creative energy. Men fly in his photographs. Earthbound dancers contort their bodies into strange muscular forms, as though in a heated argument against gravity. In his photographs, Perez redraws the body’s supposed physical limits, conveying, on one hand, the sheer athleticism of the dance and, on the other, its artistic beauty.

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West 4th St. in 1982

PHOTO: ©️ Jamel Shabazz

Dans l’air du temps : le break dance aux Jeux Olympiques

Alors que les Jeux Olympiques d’hiver battent leur plein, la nouvelle est peut- être passée inaperçue : le breakdance fait son entrée aux Jeux Olympiques. Les meilleurs break-dancers du monde entier s’affronteront donc à Paris en 2024. Un peu d’histoire :  Le break dance est une danse d’origine populaire, née dans les ghettos noirs et latinos à New York dans les années 70. Cette danse, qui se…

St Marks Pl, Circa 1983

PHOTO: ©Peter Bennett