Rokas Šaltenis, better known as Rukus on the Lithuanian and international breakdance scene, started dancing in 2000. Since then, Rokas has participated in numerous local and top-level global breakdance events – from dance battles to theater performances; constantly learning from street dance culture legends and today’s talents; sharing his accumulated experience by teaching workshops and regular classes for dancers of all ages and abilities.
Rokas spent most of his time as a professional dancer in England, where he and his team intensively developed community activities, organizing various events related to breakdance and hip hop culture, including the world-famous Just Jam Intl. Some notable moments in the activities of his: Battle Of The Year (Germany), UK BBoy Championships (UK), San Francisco Hip Hop Dance Festival (USA), Breaking Convention (UK), Together Apart (Brazil), Winter School (South Africa), ÅSA Folkhögskola 5-Styles street dance course (Sweden), Outbreak (Slovakia), King Of the Concrete (Slovenia), Real Deal (Norway), Streetstar (Sweden), Just Jam Intl (UK), Yalta Summer Jam (Ukraine), Rockafellaz Anniversary (Poland), Radikal Forze Anniversary (Singapore), Judgement Day (Malaysia), etc.
In 2023 and 2025, Rokas became the Lithuanian men group breakdance champion. In 2023, he represented Lithuania at the World Breakdance Championship in Belgium, and in 2025 he will go to Japan, representing Lithuania.
Together with Airida Gudaite and Laurynas Žakevičius, in 2024 he created the dance performance “Together alone”, for which in 2024 the creative team was nominated for the Golden Stage Cross award in the choreography and dancer category.
THREE KEY EVENTS:
– The first year of acquaintance and experimentation with street culture and breakdance in Lithuania – everything is so fresh, incredibly interesting and so “cool” – an extraordinary attraction!
– In the UK and around the world with the Bad Taste Cru team – breakdance becomes the axis of life, around which everything else begins to revolve simply by inertia. Here are the most wonderful acquaintances, and the greatest achievements, and the farthest journeys, and, of course, the most work and effort is put in.
– A course in Sweden, individual wanderings, an ongoing search for oneself both in dance and beyond.
