Her whole life, break-dancer Sunny Choi has taken the pragmatic path. Now, she’s taking a chance on the 2024 Olympics as the first B-girl to represent Team USA.
— or as she and most other dancers call it, breaking — and you’ll see it: a wide, uncontrollable grin that stretches across her face as she contorts herself fluidly across the floor, stretching up into the air one moment and folding into herself, still floating, the next. The grin is not so much smug as it is delighted; she is having the best time, every time, and her joy is contagious.
Until pretty recently, you had a full-time job at Estée Lauder to juggle along with breaking. After leaving your job to focus all your time on breaking, what has the transition been like? This is a small sport. It’s extremely hard because it’s only the one percent that gets enough money. Everyone else is really hustling. I decided I was probably going to do this and quit at some point halfway through 2022, but I stuck it out another six or seven months because I knew that I needed to save up. In 2023, I had to pay for all my flights to all the events to qualify, and I had to pay for all my stays, food, training, everything.
It took me quite some time to even come around to that decision because I was scared of giving up what I had and afraid of what kind of future I could have in breaking. At that time, I didn’t see a way that I could make enough for me to live at the level that I want to. It wasn’t until at least six months later that I finally decided that I was gonna do it.
The breaking culture has changed a lot over the years, and it’s different in every single country. Because you’re participating in a dance, you can go to any country, find some breakers, and you can dance together. It’s just a way to share that is so different from having to have a conversation when language can be a barrier. I think it’s such a beautiful thing to be able to do.You were involved in gymnastics from a very early age.
The Asian culture of being a high performer and always having to be the best heavily influenced who I was as a kid and who I am even today. Growing up in the South and looking a bit different, getting made fun of for being Asian, I always felt different. It was easier to go on the path of being in the gifted and talented programs and taking AP classes, kind of fitting into that stereotype that definitely existed for Asians in Kentucky.
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