Sturdy goes international

By 2024 you could walk into a hip-hop class in Paris or a dance studio in Johannesburg and someone on staff was teaching Brooklyn sturdy. The diaspora took the dance home and remixed it. The Lagos azonto cross got re-imported. The Paris afrobeats-meets-drill hybrid showed up at the next ENY cypher. Sturdy stopped being a Brooklyn-only practice in 2024. The Brooklyn pocket — the lean, the rock, the four-count break — stayed the reference point.