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Breaking is a street dance style that evolved as part of the hip hop movement among African American and Latino American youths in Manhattan and the South Bronx of New York City during the early 1970s. It is normally danced to hip hop music, often remixed to prolong the breaks , and is a well known hip hop dance style. Break-dancing involves the dance elements of top rock, down rock, freezes, and power moves. A break-dancer, breaker, b-boy or b-girl refers to a person who practices break-dancing.

Schloss also states that, the term is also problematic on a practical level break dancing is often used as an umbrella term that includes not only b-boy but locking, and other so called funk-style dances that originated in California, and says that the break dance is often used disparagingly. A break dancer is someone who has learned the dance for mercenary reasons, while a b-boy has learned it through a commitment to the culture.

However, referring to the terms "break dancer" and "break dancing," hip-hop scholar Joseph Schloss in the book "Foundation B-boys, B-girls, And Hip-Hop Culture In New York" states the term break dancing connotes exploitation and disregard for the dance's roots in hip-hop culture, most feel that the term was part of a larger attempt by the mass media to recast their raw street dance as a nonthreatening form of musical acrobatics, one of the first things that beginning b-boys or b-girls learn from their peers is not to refer to the practice as "break dancing," and "those who are unfamiliar with the culture may be surprised at the vehemence of b-boys feelings about the term.