A breakdancing competition, to be held at Brighton Marina on July 31, will celebrate its acceptance in the Paris Olympics in 2024.
Open to anyone in the UK, the breakdancing competition and display, has been set up by Brighton Marina in collaboration with Brighton Street Dance school Streetfunk, and hosted by local hip-hop and dance celebrity JP Omari.
JP was the first Breakdancer in the UK to appear on a TV reality show, BBC’s Strictly Dance Fever in 2006 where he came 4th in the Semi-finals. Breakdancing was JP’s introduction into Hip-Hop culture in the early 2000’s when he established the Breaking scene in Brighton with his crew Floor Crusaders.
JP said: "Brighton used to have a big Breaking scene in the 2000’s with Breaking crew Floor Crusaders performing regularly in clubs and events as well as teaching classes to children and adults. They also had a big presence in the UK Breaking scene regularly battling crews across the UK. Unfortunately, things changed with people growing up or moving away and the scene in Brighton slowly faded. I truly hope this event will kickstart and inspire a new generation of Breakers in Brighton and bring Brighton back to its former glory of reputable funky jaw-dropping breakers.”
Brighton Breaking Summer Jam 2022 will be held at the Village Square between 10am and 6pm. Throughout the day, there will also be free Breaking workshops by the judges and performances by Streetfunk’s multi award-winning crews.
Breakers from all over the UK are invited to come and battle for a chance to be “crowned” champions of Brighton Breaking Summer Jam 2022 which will be judged by top UK breakers – B-Boy Sasha, B-Boy Sheku and B-Girl Stefani. Brighton Breaking Summer Jam 2022 will witness dancers of all ages defying gravity, spinning at dizzying speeds and getting their bodies to do superhuman things. Music on the day will be provided by top Breaking DJ - DJ Digga Crazy.
In December 2020 the International Olympic Committee officially announced that Breaking had been accepted as one of the four new sports that will be included in the 2024 Olympics Games in Paris. This followed the success of Breaking's inclusion as a sport in the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires.
A spokesperson for Streetfunk said:
"Being recognised as an Olympic sport puts these Breakers into the mainstream sport spotlight and offers potential million-pound sponsorship deals. It also gives the younger generation something additional to strive for over and above National and International Breakdancing competitions.
"The Olympic Games is a multi-sport extravaganza where Breakers will be exposed to elite athletes from 32 different sports with 329 medal events across 762 sessions. This is an incredible and unique opportunity for the sport."
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