Break dance, also known as break dance or B-Boying / b-girls, is a kind of sports style of street dance. Although the number of changes in dance is varied, break dance is mainly composed of four movements: top rock movement, down rock movement, power movement and freezing movement. Break dancing is usually set to hip-hop, funk and beat music, although modern trends allow for more types of music in some rhythm and beat modes.

Breakdancing was created by African American youth in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The earliest break dancing groups include King Zulu and Clark Kent. By the mid-1970s, the dance began to spread to other communities and became popular. At the same time, the dance is becoming increasingly unpopular among African Americans.

The dancers are called B boys, B girls or wrestlers. Although the term "break dance" is often used to refer to dance in popular culture and mainstream entertainment industries, "B-Boying" and "breaking" are primitive terms and are preferred by most pioneers and most famous practitioners.

Many break dancing elements can be seen in other previous cultures before the 1970s. B-boy pioneers Richard "Crazy Legs" colon and Kenneth "Ken swift" Gabbert, both from rock steady crew, cited the influence of James Brown and kung fu films. Many acrobatic movements, such as flares, have a clear connection with gymnastics. In his 1877 Book Rob Roy on Baltic, John MacGregor described seeing a single young man near nork. And then when his thighs draw a big circle, turn a little bit on his hand... ". The sculpture shows a young man apparently dancing. The dance is known as Giesse Harad Polska or "salmon District dance.". In 1894, Thomas Edison filmed Walter Wilkins, Denny toliver and Joe Rastus and danced and performed "the crash.". Then in 1898, he filmed a young street dancer performing acrobatic headscarves. However, it was not until the 1970s that B-Boying developed into a clear dance style in the United States. There is also evidence of this dance style in Kaduna, Nigeria, in 1959.

Starting with DJ Kool HERC, Bronx based DJs use the rhythmic subdivisions of dance records (also known as "interrupts") and extend their time through continuous loops. Rest rhythm provides a rhythm basis for dancers to demonstrate their improvisation skills during the rest period. This led to the first fight - a turn based dance competition between two people or teams, judged by creativity, skill and musicality. The fighting took place in cryptocurrencies, with a group of people surrounding the circuit breakers. Although the earliest B-Boy was originally "nearly 90% African American," dance troupes such as "Sal soul" and "Rockwell Association" were almost entirely made up of Puerto ricans.