Interview with Jill Murray – Author of “Break On Through”

competitive breaking is male-dominated
to an extreme but break on through
author chill Murray who’s a breakdancer
herself takes us into young women’s
involvement in this thriving culture how
does break on through extend outside of
a breakdancing work focuses a lot on the
relationships between the character on
how there are four very different
personalities in one crew and how do you
try to keep that all together and how do
the people that you meet influence what
you do and how you experience where you
are in the last few years street dance
schools like 30 sweatshop have sprung up
and around them there are all these
communities of friendly outgoing other
students to get to make a lot of friends
improve your physical fitness and it’s a
lot of fun do you want to let us know
about your involvement with breakdancing
while you were writing the book I was
actually dancing for a few years before
I started writing this book I started
taking classes after seeing a group
called the shebang crew something I’ve
continued to do something I do now for
stress relief while I’m writing the next
book they hey if I can breakdance really
seriously anyone can practice