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From the founders

Built by
breakers.

Mission

EBL exists to give breaking — an art form born from hip hop culture — the professional stage, structure, and earning power of a world-class sport. We're building the infrastructure the culture has never had: real competition, real stakes, and real opportunity for the dancer athletes who've turned this art into elite performance.

Vision

To become the definitive global league for competitive breaking — built on the culture that created it, and structured with the rigor of the world's great sports leagues. A future where every city has a team, every season has a rivalry, and breakers are recognized — and paid — as the elite dancer athletes they've always been.

From the Founders

For the last 25 years, breaking has been our lives. We spent more than a decade competing at the world level, grew up in show business as the children of professional dancers, and have dedicated our lives to this culture. EBL is the culmination of all of it. If you're new here: welcome. What you're about to watch is one of the most electric, skillful, and honest art forms in the world — and EBL is being built to become the world's premier professional breaking league. The competitive side of breaking — the battles, the rankings, the rivalries — has always been building toward something bigger. What's never existed is the professional infrastructure to support it: real stages, real stakes, real careers. That's what EBL is. Built for what this culture already is, by people who've lived it. Breakers are superstars. It's time the world treated them like it. — Etienne & Guillaume Carreira Founders of the EBL

From the floor.

Portrait and biographies from EBL’s Season One deck.

Etienne and Guillaume Carreira photographed together in black and white.
Photo: EBL Browse photo

Etienne “ATN” Carreira

Co-founder

  • 24-year pro dance career; founding member of Battle Born Crew
  • World titles: Battle of the Year, World of Dance, B-Boy Summit, Outbreak
  • Battled, judged, and taught breaking in 18 countries across 5 continents
  • Featured dancer, Cirque du Soleil’s Michael Jackson ONE

Guillaume “GEOM” Carreira

Co-founder

  • Co-founder, Battle Born Crew; world titles including R16 Korea and Battle of the Year France
  • Seven-year soloist, Cirque du Soleil’s LOVE; choreographed for John Legend’s One Night for One Drop
  • World-toured with STOMP: 50 states and 20+ countries

In 2019 the brothers founded Alchemy Breaking Academy. EBL is the next chapter.

Who makes the nights happen?

Meet the people running the league.

Operating team