 Performing signature moves in a street scene with Jennifer Beals character Alex, a Pittsburgh steel worker by day, pursuing her ballet dancer dreams. The street style dance made it into other movies and music videos, too, and got a name in the 80s that stuck. The Maya says the majority of people who are in the breaking community today, though, don't call it break dancing. If I did that here at the studio, they would not come. I would have no teachers. We're at a dance studio, but you can't call it break dancing.