Nathan, a Sheffield-based charity director who runs Rationale Arts in the city, teaches breakin’ to the visually impaired as a means of injury prevention and to improve spatial awareness.
Music activists have been using term ‘breakin’ instead of breakdance which is often used commercially to refer to the dance art form.
Nathan said: “At first, he didn t want anything to do with dancing, he didn’t like it because he never really tried it.
“But then one day, he came in for work experience but there wasn t any opportunity. So I brought him to one of my dance classes, he took part and he got hooked.
A HEREFORD student s story is set to feature on the BBC s Strictly: It Takes Two this week. A little touch of Strictly magic came to the Royal National College for the Blind on December 5, as a film crew came arrived to follow the story of 16-year-old A-level student Crispin Gell, who has shown real talent for Breakdance, also known as Breakin’ or B-boying. This remarkable young man is totally blind having lost sight in one eye at four months old and in his other eye at the age of six, due to hereditary glaucoma and aniridia. Crispin, from Chesterfield, was introduced to Breakin’ by chance last year, when his work experience was cancelled and he was invited to try out a dreakdance session so that the day wasn’t completely wasted.