What does it mean to be a breaker? The emotions and perceptions of bboys (break boys) and bgirls (break girls), through a brief tour of the contemporary breaking scene of Attica and the narratives of the diverse individuals and groups who express themselves in this dance form.
Fotini Stefani
Fotini Stefani has an undergraduate degree in Social Anthropology and a Master’s Degree in Visual Anthropology from the University of Manchester, UK. She has worked as a social scientist in various associations organizing social programs co-financed by the European Union. She is currently working as a case worker in the Greek Asylum Service and as a freelance filmmaker. She is also a member and curator of the Balkan Can Kino Film Festival, based in Athens
Natalia Koutsougera
Natalia Koutsougera is a social anthropologist (Laboratory Teaching Staff, Department of Social Anthropology, Panteion University) who works at the intersection of the anthropology of youth cultures, the anthropology of entertainment, the anthropology of music and dance, popular culture and gender, visual anthropology and hip-hop studies. She uses interdisciplinary approaches as well as multimodal methodologies inspired by both anthropology, cultural and media studies. She is the author of many articles and chapters in international and domestic scientific journals and volumes regarding hip-hop, gender studies, anthropology and youth cultures, while for the last seventeen years she has been working as a critic and columnist for the contemporary dance and performance portal dancetheater.gr. She has directed and produced three ethnographic dance documentaries: “Born to Break” (2011), “The Girls Are Here” (2015) and “An Element of Hope” (2025) on the topics of hip-hop, urban dance styles, spiritualities in hip-hop, hip-hop femininities, street cultures and gender. In 2024 she published her monograph “Bred in the Western Suburbs: Dance, Music and Youth Cultures in Ellinadiko” which explores “laiko” (popular) and trap cultures in nightclubs of Western Attica from the 1990s to the present. Natalia has also been a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre of Hellenic Studies in Greece (Harvard University) and is also the Scientific Officer of the Erasmus Program (2025-2028) UFemTP: A Mobilizing Training and Multimodal Platform (Panteion University).