Ballet de Lorraine’s Tristan Ihne has been dancing professionally for nearly two decades. But on July 26, he gave a performance unlike any he’d done before: Along with about 200 other dancers, he danced atop a golden platform filled with water next to the Seine river in an 8-minute piece by Maud Le Pladec, as part […]
Dance shone in the global spotlight like never before this past weekend as breaking made its long-anticipated debut on the Olympic stage. In a packed amphitheater-style arena at Paris’ Place de la Concorde, 32 dancers from all over the world—16 b-boys and 16 b-girls—competed head to head to see who would go down in history as the […]
In just a few days, breaking will make its much-anticipated Olympic debut at the 2024 Paris Games. 16 b-boys and 16 b-girls will compete battle-style to sold-out stadium crowds, the culmination of years of advocating, planning, and training. Dancers and dance fans around the world are eager to cheer on the breakers. But when and where can those […]
This summer, breaking will make its Olympic debut at the 2024 Paris games, and b-girl Sunny Choi is ready to make history. In fact, she already did! This past October, Choi became the first American woman to qualify for the games after winning the gold medal at the Pan American Games. Choi spent her adolescence […]