Following five heavily attended pre-selection rounds, the 16 participants in Red Bull Take One were chosen.  After a weekend of workshops, on Sunday 25 October they will be competing against each other in the ultimate B-Boy battle in Brussels’ prestigious culture temple, Bozar.

Red Bull Take One is looking for the best Belgian breakdancers.   Every participant will have the chance to prove his or her worth on the breakdance floor.   The idea was certainly a success and showed that there are an awful lot of hidden treasures in Belgium; the most talented B-Boys and B-Girls turned up at the pre-selections in Antwerp, Ghent, Brussels, Namur and Liège. Of the 140 participants, the jury chose 16 finalists.

Info about the instructeurs &  jury

Ken Swift - USA
Ken Swift (born Kenneth James Gabbert) is far the greatest Influence the dance form of B-Boying has known. Considered "the Epitome of a B-Boy", his image and style captured on film has been emulated throughout the years by B-Boys and B-Girls aournd the world.
Ken Swift is credited with the creation of many dance moves. Ken Swift began B-Boying in 1978 at the age of twelve when he was inspired by dancers on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
Ken Swift is one of the Original member of the world renowned "Rock Steady Crew" (RSC), the first group of B-Boys to receive professional recognition from the media and their peers.
He also participated with some other members of the RSC in the first International Hip Hop Tour in 1982. Ken Swift also appeared in the movie "Beat Street" in 1984 - "Style Wars" or "Wild Style" as well as "Flashdance" in 1983 where his two-minute dance with several members of the Rock Steady Crew launched the Hip-Hop scene into national attention.
Ken Swift was also part of many dance show and choregraphies for different projects all over the world - "Jam On The Groove" - "Serious Fun" - From the Street to the Stage", ...
He is now President of the VII Gems Hip Hop movement in NYC.
Ken Swift has several film credits to his name, including "Style Wars", the first hip-hop documentary, and the first hip-hop major motion picture, "Wild Style". His most famous movie was 1983's hit "Flashdance", where his two-minute dance with several members of the Rock Steady Crew launched the Hip-Hop scene into national attention. Ken Swift also danced in the motion picture "Beat Street".  

Machine - USA
Jeffery “Machine” Mccann, 25 years old, started dancing at the age of 9 in Sacramento, California.
Being on the streets, watching Martial Arts movies, and being part of Hip Hop in the early 90's, all influenced his dance styles to vary from old forms of rocking to acrobatic tricks. He started his dance career with Show Biz Productions working with the Sacramento Kings and Sacramento Monarchs.
That opportunity soon led to Jeff dancing as a professional b-boy around the world in places including Toronto, Rotterdam, France, Japan, Moscow, Italy, Barcelona, Germany and many more places.
Winning first place at Red Bull King of the Ring Toronto 2006, being voted Bboy of the Year 2005 on Freestylesession.com, picked to organize the 2004-2006 IBE USA teams in Rotterdam, performing on the Golden State Warriors Breaking Squad 2006, and choreographing for Nine Parts of Desire at Berkeley Repertory Theatre in 2006 are only some of his accomplishments.
He also originated the concept of Stay on the Court while co-promoting it for four years now.
In December of 2006, he decided to make the big move to Los Angeles with his girlfriend, Sarah “Smalls” Saltzman. Since moving down to Los Angeles, Machine has been a dancer in “Step Up II: The Streets,” “No One”- Alicia Keys’ music video, The Drop 2007 spring and fall series on SiTV, and more. He co-founded Hit the Floor Productions and is now Creative Director of the company and the main choreographer for their in-house Dance Company, West Bound.

Niels "Storm" Robitzky – Germany
'Storm' started dancing as a little child, but seriously cought on to the dances Bboying, Popping and Locking at the age of 14. His first tours he did for "Bravo Breakdancesensation 84". Soon after that, the big fashion 'Breakdance' died out. Nevertheless, he didn't stop studying styles, got connected with other Bboys and stayed creative and productive throughout the unfashionable ages until this date.
By 1991 his group "the Battle Squad" was one of the leading bboygroups worldwide and thanx to them and others, the art of Bboying is so alive and strong these days.
In 1991 and 1992 him and his crew Battle Squad won the "international Balle of the year". 
Because of the struggle in times when Bboying was out of fashion, he decided to establish HipHopculture in the theatreworld.
From 1992 on he danced with a New Yorker dance Company called 'Ghettoriginal'. he performed shows in Washingtons 'Kennedy Center' and in NYCities 'Lincolncenter'. While living in NYC he got his feeling for "Funk" back by working out with "Mr Wiggles" and "Adesola" at rehearsals and on off days. So he started studying the dancestyles popping and locking.
During the same period he was hosting the HipHop Magazine 'Freestyle' on the german TV channel Viva.
Briefly after quitting the job in early 1996, he decided to form a dancecompany in his hometown Berlin, which was called the 'Storm and Jazzy Project'. With two choreographies they toured many different theatres around the world.
In times he wasnï¿´t dancing, he wrote on the book 'From Swipe to Storm' which came out in january 2000 and is telling the story of "Breaking" in Germany. It was only published in german language.
In 2000, Storm decided to create a Solo, named "Solo for two" It's been shown all over the world in more than 50 different countries and 160 cities. Currently he is mainly touring with the Solos: "Solo 4 two" 
"Virtuelevation", which was produced in 2006 and 
"Storm in classical context" which is an improvisation of about 20 minutes. 
The currently, mostly toured Companyoiece is 
"Geometronomics" with the group "Discipulos do ritmo" from Sao Paolo / Brasil.
Nowadays Storm also choreographs and directs for different theatres and institutions all over the world. He also choreographed for the openingceremonies of the "Expo 2000" in hannover and the "FIFA soccerworldcup 2006 in Germany"
In 2004 he conceptionalized "The art of urban dance" and choreographed with the other 8 performing dancers an informative didactic piece with 10 other dancers from europe. This show has also been touring around the world with great support of the "Goethe Institute" in the middle east and Asia.
In 2004 he starred in the german HipHop movie "Status yo" and played the gasstationworker.

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