Meissen, Dresden and then New York? Breakdance aces spin for the Olympics!

The German breakdance scene is starting up in Saxony in order to take off internationally and maybe even qualify for the 2024 Olympics in Paris.

Dresden – meissen, DresdenNew York – and maybe even 2024 to the Olympic Games to Paris? The German breakdance scene is taking off Saxony Start to get started internationally with headspins, throwdowns or power moves.

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B-Boy Double D wants to dance his way into the New York finals. ©PR

On June 25th (4 p.m. to 9 p.m.), breakdance legend Heiko “Hahny” Hahnewald (56) is bringing 16 crews from Europe to Meissen for the “Down To The Beat Contest”.

A total of 56 break dancers will open the “cultural summer” with their competition on the market square stage. “In order to make it attractive for the audience, there are always three against three dancers,” says Hahny.

The top acts include the three-time German champions, the “Saxonz”. But also the “Black Out Crew” from Thessaloniki in Greece, the five-time winners of the “Battle Of The Year Balkans”.

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Dresden fire brigade deployment
Cloud of smoke over the Weißer Hirsch: What’s burning here?
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“I’m happy that there are eight girls in the competition, because breakdance is still male,” says Hahny.

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Wherever Heiko “Hahny” Hahnewald (56) goes on vacation, he can be photographed balancing on his head – like in front of the pyramids in Gizeh. © private

Youngsters are particularly important to the two-time East German breakdance champion. And it is funded by the Anneli-Marie Foundation Meissen – founded by the parents of the entrepreneur’s daughter Anneli-Marie, who was kidnapped and killed in August 2015.

No foundation or city, but the energy drink giant Red Bull is behind the breakdance competition on July 9 in Dresden’s “Stromwerk”.

The best eight b-girls and 16 b-boys in the country compete at the “Red Bull BC One Cypher Germany”. But only one male and one male dancer can qualify for the final on November 12 in New York.