Break! The Urban Funk Spectacular!

Get ready for the ultimate Hip Hop experience!

This electrifying production combines hip-hop music with breathtaking acrobatics, backflips, spins, and gravity-defying stunts, featuring the world’s premier B-Boys, B-Girls, Poppers & Lockers.

With a legacy spanning 30 years, 1,000+ performances, and 2 million tickets sold worldwide, “BREAK! The Urban Funk Spectacular” has solidified its position as the beating heart of hip-hop theater.

The lineup for this spectacular event includes:

• DJ Grand Wizard Theodore on turntables
• MC Roger G
• Doron Lev on Drums
• Award-winning Beatboxer Mark “Mandibule” Martin

Audiences can expect an unforgettable experience with:

• Olympic-Level Fire: Fresh from breaking’s Paris 2024 debut
• 50 Years of Soul, 2025 Vision: New multimedia sequences tracing hip-hop’s journey
• Broadway-worthy lighting and storytelling that will leave you roaring!

“This colorful ode to break dancing is full-throttle entertainment… a cross between the percussion-oriented “Stomp” and Savion Glover’s tap history “Bring in Da Noise, Bring in Da Funk…”
— The Houston Chronicle

About BREAK! The Urban Funk Spectacular:

BREAK! The Urban Funk Spectacular traces the history of hip-hop dancing over the last thirty years. It is a tribute to this American urban art form. Cast members are supremely talented artists from the world of “Breakdancing,” “Locking,” “Electric Boogaloo” or “Popping,” and Power Tumbling, as well as DJing, drumming and beatboxing (vocal percussion). Many have been featured soloists in performances with such show-business legends as Madonna, Janet Jackson, B2K, 50 Cent, Ringo Starr, Whitney Houston, and Luther Vandross.

A distinctive American art form with hazy African roots that run deep through the streets of inner cities, Hip Hop defies easy definition. Comprised of five elements – Dance, MC, DJ, Graffiti, and Fashion – each component is improvised and recombined in myriad rhythms and styles so that Hip Hop continually reinvents itself. Though the exact origins of hip-hop are unclear, dance elements hearken back to an African tradition involving a variety of footwork patterns, spinning, and gymnastic-type moves; Hip-Hop dancing has been heavily influenced by a number of sources. Some consider James Brown and his 1969 hit “Get on the Good Foot” to be one of the starting points. Inspired by his energetic, almost acrobatic dance on stage, many people began dancing on the “Good Foot,” often incorporating moves that involved dramatic drops and spins.

Martial arts films, which were extremely popular in the 1970s, contributed some of the more spectacularly muscular and acrobatic elements to this burgeoning urban dance phenomenon. The term “Breakdancing” actually arose with the growing recognition of this art form by the media. The early 80’s “battles” between dance crews attracted the attention of the public, and “Breaking,” “B-Boy-ing,” or “Breakdancing” became associated with other street dance styles such as “Locking” and “Popping”.