B-Girling

We’ll level with you, readers. When we first set about informing you that Ana “Rockafella” Garcia will be screening her documentary on female street dancers, All the Ladies Say, over at MIT, we were gonna slap on a “nothing goes better with empowerment than breakdancing” quip and then call it a day. Minutes of painstaking Wikipedia research, however, and we realize just how jivey our turkeys really are—though the dance itself is known as “breaking,” performing it is known as “b-boying,” after its practitioners, “b-boys” or “b-girls.” Breakdancing is a made-up word for white people. Our b, hip-hop culture. One love. [Whitaker Building, Room 56-114, 21 Ames St., Cambridge. 617.253.4680. 7pm/all ages/free. artscal.mit.edu]