B-boying

B-boying or breaking, often called breakdancing, is a style of street dance that originated as a part of hip hop culture among African and Latino American youths in New York City during the early 1970s.^{[2]:125, 141, 153[3]} Fast to gain popularity in the media, the dance spread worldwide especially in South Korea, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Russia, and Japan. While diverse in the amount of variation available in the dance, b-boying consists of four primary elements: toprock, downrock, power moves, and freezes. B-boying is typically danced to hip-hop and especially breakbeats, although modern trends allow for much wider varieties of music along certain ranges of tempo and beat patterns.