Stop the music, forever. Raygun said stop. <a href="https://www.world-today-news.com/break-dance-makes-its-debut-and-goes-viral-due-to-rachael-gunns-performance-that-generates-all-kinds-of-reactions-video/” title=”Break dance makes its debut and goes viral due to Rachael Gunn's performance that generates all kinds of reactions, video”>Rachael Gunn, 37enne ballerina in breakdancing Australian, abandons competitions in her discipline. The criticism received weighs more than talent and the desire to continue dancing. There was too much mockery for his performance at the Paris 2024 Games. “Devastating” and unbearable, resulting in cyberbullying. “I’ll still break, but I won’t compete anymore, no no,” he revealed last Wednesday during a program on Australian radio 2DayFM.
A dream I’ve had since I was a child
Dancing has been in my blood since I was a child. First ballroom dancing, then tap and jazz. Eventually she met Samuel Free, an expert breaker and her current husband, whom she met at university. “Why don’t you try too?”. Love at first sight, for him and breakdancing. So much so that he dedicated his PhD to him with a thesis on the “intersection between gender and breakdance culture in Sydney”. An inexplicable passion. Not for her, who also teaches it. Gunn is a lecturer in the Faculty of Arts at Macquarie University. Her research focuses on breakdancing, street dance, hip-hop, youth culture and gender in politics. In September 2023 he won the Oceania breakdancing championships, earning a place in the Olympics.
The zero of Paris, but it’s the words that hurt
The results in Paris do not please her: zero points in all the battles played. Eliminated in the groups. But numbers don’t hurt, words do. His awkward movements do not please the social audience. At one point Raygun imitates the hops of a kangaroo, then reproduces the movement of a lawn sprinkler with his head. “I could never beat my rivals in what they do perfectly. I wanted to move differently, be artistic and creative, because in the end how many opportunities do you have in life to do all this on an international stage? I just wanted to leave my mark in a different way,” his explanation.
The brutal criticism on the web and the accusations
Evidently misunderstood: “Goldfish in agony on the sink out of water”, one of the many comments on the web. The memes are coming, but not only. Some accuse her of having ridiculed breakdancing at the moment of its maximum media exposure, on the discipline’s debut day at the Olympics. As if that wasn’t enough, Gunn also ends up at the center of a conspiracy theory: Samuel Free, her husband and coach, would have somehow rigged the selections to allow her to participate to the detriment of other Australian athletes. But in the qualifying tournament Free was not a judge and no Australian was on the judging panel. Haters even started a petition to investigate how she got to Paris. They called for holding Gunn and Australian delegation leader Anna Meares “accountable for unethical conduct”. In the interview the athlete defined this situation as “surreal” and the theories surrounding the alleged manipulations as “completely crazy”. Better turn off the music, then. Say enough. Only to the logic of competition, however. Because breakdancing represents a cultural model, a lifestyle born in the Bronx of the seventies. “You can’t withdraw from culture,” explains Raygun. With a smile: “I will still dance in the living room with my partner”. In the spirit of one of his most symbolic messages, launched during the Games: “Don’t be afraid to be different, go out and represent yourselves, you don’t know where all this will take you.” Because even hate has its play button, just pause it.
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