Reader contributor IreneCHsiao shares a note on her cover story featuring breakers in Chicago who create community through practice: 'A lot of us took on breaking because we were missing something from our lives.'
Breaking is usually seen on screens and in solo competition, manifesting in bursts of energy that erupt in rapid detonations of aggression and expression. The experience can be overwhelming, intimidating, and earsplittingly, earthshakingly loud. But battles are only a fraction of the dance—to experience breaking is also to experience wit, joy, humor, invention, and a way of being in space and time with others that offers hope for anyone willing to practice.by going to practice.
These spaces, like all things, are temporary. The Clarendon Park Fieldhouse, which hosts the longest running and largest practice in Chicago, is slated for demolition. The Brickheadz, with crewmembers from all over the city, migrate from place to place and often practice outdoors. Since the writing of this story, the practice in Cicero has closed. Still, through breaking, they build, grow, evolve.
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