Breakin’ Convention review – vibrant hip-hop party is a triumph

Blowing other dancers out of the water … ILL-Abilities at Breakin’ Convention. Photograph: Belinda Lawley/Sadler's Wells

Jonzi D turned down an MBE when he was offered one for services to dance, back in 2011. But on stage at the 20th edition of Breakin’ Convention, the hip-hop theatre festival he founded, he did accept a more meaningful award, from the State Assembly of New York, birthplace of hip-hop, for his work promoting the art form. Two of the original B-boys, Keith and Kevin Smith, AKA the Legendary Twins, turned up to present it.

Flow to freeze … Company Nicolas Huchard at Breakin’ Convention. Photograph: Belinda Lawley/Sadler's Wells