The trailblazing Johanna Rodrigues
The trailblazing Johanna Rodrigues B-Girl Jo Dancing is the poetry of the feet ~ John Dryden Dance with your heart and your feet will follow ~ Mia Michaels ( edited) True human potential is only embraced when we overcome stereotypes and social barriers. Case in point: Johanna Rodrigues aka b-girl Jo has been 'breaking' the mould, blazing new trails in the sport of Breaking. Check out this Red Bull cover story of Johanna Rodrigues Long before Johanna began improvising breaking routines combining Indian classical B haratnatyam dance, Kalaripayattu martial arts and Yoga training with headstands and backflips in a quest to "redefine femininity", she found inspiration at home in her fearless mother (and my first cousin) Rhoda. Early days She remembers her early days in these words, “My mother, who is widowed, didn’t have much extra time on her hands to take me to different classes. But what she did was to enrol me into neighbourhood yoga lessons when I was 12. T