The picture shows Storm, a middle-aged man with a well-groomed and graying five-day beard, a green Fedora hat on his head, large glasses with transparent frames on his nose and a silver hoop earring in his left ear. In this picture, he looks rather deliberate and thoughtful, which is partly due to his seated cross-legged pose, but also because he is holding his left hand on his chin. The background of the picture is completely black. This makes the light green of his hat and the thin stripes of his top stand out in contrast.
Photo Deborah Dorzile

Storm

Storm’s career began in 1983, when he started popping and breaking at the age of 14. Soon after, he went on a breakdancing tour for BRAVO magazine in northern Germany. After winning the International Battle of the Year in 1991 and 1992 and making his breakthrough as a breakdance world champion, he moved to New York. From 1992 to 1995 he became part of the first hip-hop dance company Ghettoriginal. Shortly afterwards, in 1996, he founded his own company, Storm and Jazzy Project, in Berlin. In 2000, his book Von Swipe zu Storm was published, which focuses onthe history of breakdancing in Germany. In 2001, he premiered his piece Solo 4 two which toured worldwide and was soon followed by many other theater projects. In 2004, Storm released the world’s first educational DVD for breakdancers entitled Footwork Fundamentals. He has been teaching popping, locking and breaking since 1991 and has developed his own didactics. In 2023, Storm was awarded an honorary professorship at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz.