"break dance" meaning in English

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          "text": "On May 6 the same year they held the first break dance competition in Beijing. Many parents have changed their attitude towards the youngsters doing break dances.",
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          "ref": "2007, Carla Stalling Huntington, Hip Hop Dance: Meanings and Messages, page 40:",
          "text": "The advent of rap dance is where the supposedly predominantly male performance characteristic of waack and break dance shifted to include women.",
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          "ref": "2012, Bradley Wiggins, In Pursuit of Glory: The Autobiography:",
          "text": "When I was invited to lead the bride in the traditional dance I, for some reason, thought it would be amusing to do a break dance in the middle of the floor.",
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          "text": "Even though a systematic warm-up exists for ballet in the form of the barre, break dance does not have an equivalent.",
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          "ref": "2003 -, Greg Gordon, Landscape of desire:",
          "text": "A teenage girl break dances in the parking lot of the Ramada Inn while her dad fiddles with the mountain bikes on the roof of their SUV.",
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          "ref": "2010, Lisa Samson, Club Sandwich, page 51:",
          "text": "My flesh even knows how to break dance, it's so good at winning the skirmish.",
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          "ref": "2013, Doris Miller, DIANE D: The Musical Drama, page 320:",
          "text": "They originally audition to break dance until one of them told Diane he hurt his foot a week ago and his foot might still be swollen, so they went home to get their trumpets, now they want to audition to play the trumpets.",
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        },
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