The dancer, one of the best ‘breaking’ dancers in Spain, visits the Murcia region to demonstrate his virtuosity
“It’s popularly known as ‘breakdance’, but our discipline is ‘breaking’,” notes Jonatan Caballero. And those who practice it, “athletic dancers”. Dancers for obvious reasons and athletes because ‘breaking’ will premiere at the next Olympics in Paris 2024. Good news for artists like Jonatan, known on the dance floor as Johnny Fox and one of the best exponents of Spanish ‘breaking’. ‘ worldwide. “We were already preparing as professional athletes, but if a year ago we struggled to train in a subway station without being kicked out, now we have a space, a physical trainer, a national team, access to scholarships . ..”, he says. the dancer from Sant Joan Despí (Barcelona) who has participated in events around the world, such as Red Bull BC One, the competition that brought together the 16 best in the world in the discipline and declared himself the winner of major competitions, such as The Legits Blast , a prestigious international music and dance festival, held in Slovakia in 2020. It also won the last Spanish championship.
If you want to see his virtuosity, you can do so tomorrow afternoon, at 7.30 pm, at the door of the Regional Library. I’ll start with a little introduction. Then I put on a little ‘show’ of five minutes and finally I want to involve the audience so that children and not so children throw themselves on the floor and take a few steps together».
The ‘b-boy’ – as the dancers are also called, and the women ‘b-girl’ – has lived in Poland for four years, but constantly travels to international championships. Although he has experienced the “breaking” of the crib, since his father was already dancing, it was at the age of 13 in an extracurricular activity at school where he started dancing, and he has not stopped since.
His next major championship will be in July when he will represent Spain and the FEBD (Spanish Federation of Sports Dancing), like his partner Xak, at The World Games, an international competition in the 1-on-1 format taking place. held in the US and where the 16 best in the world will meet.
The classification shows that Spain has great ‘b-boys’, but also ‘b-girls’. This Friday, the Regional Library will receive Ana María Ortega, better known as Furia, the Spanish champion of “breaking” in 2021.
Source: La Verdad
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