Breakdancer Asia One trying to raise $80,000 to rescue Afghan hip-hop dancers from Taliban
Nancy Wu – a visionary breakdancer and activist better known as Asia One – has set out to help rescue a group of Afghan dancers hiding from the Taliban. Her relationship with them began in 2019, The Guardian reports, when a member of the group (labelled as Moshtagh, his actual name redacted for safety) reached out to Wu in hopes of strengthening their international presence. But when the Taliban launched an offensive on Afghanistan in 2021, Moshtagh’s group made the snap decision to flee the nation’s capital of Kabul. Wu told The Guardian that such a decision was “based on complete fear”, noting that Moshtagh and his cohort were driven by an “overwhelming sense of survival” because “they felt so threatened by the Taliban based on their western practices”. Advertisement She explained that Moshtagh pleaded for Wu to help them out: “He said, ‘I feel like you guys have an obligation to help us,’ and I was like, ‘What do you mean?’ And he said, ‘Well, you know, we’re all just hip-hop family.’ And … the more and more we spoke, the more and more I realised that much of what he was saying was true.” Wu – who runs… Read More →
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