Breakdancing around the World: Iraq

Posted on December 7, 2008

Though breaking started in the Bronx, NY, it has since grown from a U.S. fad to world-wide phenomenon. I‘ll periodically post a “Breaking all over the World” blog to showcase b-boys and b-girls from all around the globe.

This dance is seriously universal. There are breaker’s in Iraq, a country where adopting western styles can get you killed. The group’s first b-boy, who learned breaking while traveling abroad, was even killed for it. Here’s the piece that CNN did on the group: