For the first time in history, breaking dance will be on the Olympic programme at the Paris Olympics in 2024. Find out how this event works.
Breaking dance is one of the four events that have joined the 2024 Olympics program. Along with climbing, surfing and skateboarding, this new discipline will be in Paris this summer. Before detailing how this new event works, we must recall where breaking comes from. It is a dance that developed in the United States in the 1970s. Coming from hip-hop, the dance has crept into the neighborhoods of the Bronx. It is a more acrobatic style of dance set to the rhythm of DJs and MCs, in other words the masters of ceremonies.
It was in 1990 that the discipline became popular during organized international battles. It was in this spirit that the discipline was invited to the Olympic Games this summer in Paris. Women and men will participate. The operation is rather simple: one-on-one battles will be organized between 16 male and 16 female dancers. Judges will be present to observe and award medals to the athletes who impress the most.
A quick trip to the Olympics
Breaking dance will be on the Olympic programme for the first time, but will make a brief appearance since the discipline will no longer be present at the next Olympics in Los Angeles in 2028. In 2018, breaking appeared at the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires. While this discipline had attracted attention, it clearly did not meet with unanimous approval within the Olympic committee.
During the Paris Olympics 2024the breaking dance will be held over two days on the side of the open-air stadium erected on Place de la Concorde. On Friday August 9, the women’s competition will begin at 4 p.m. with the qualifiers before the final at 8 p.m. before the men’s final the next day at the same times.
On the French side, the Tricolores have filled up and will be present in Paris to try to win the first Olympic title in the discipline. Two male and two female dancers have qualified, the maximum. At the Concorde, b-girl Carlota (Carlota Dudek), b-boy Lagaet (Gaetin Alin), b-boy Dany Dann (Danis Civil) and b-girl Syssy (Sya Dembélé) will represent France.