At a Glance

• Winner: Miyu Ananthanaya Pranoto, 12, known as Matamiyu
• Title: Hip Hop Champion, JOAT (Jack of All Trades) Festival 2026
• Field: 120+ dancers from multiple countries
• Where/When: Club Soda, Montreal, September 4, 2026

On September 4, 2026, at Club Soda in Montreal, a seventh grader from East Jakarta stepped into the final of one of North America's biggest street dance festivals  and walked out with the crown.

Miyu Ananthanaya Pranoto, who competes and posts under the name Matamiyu, won the Hip Hop title at JOAT (Jack of All Trades) 2026, beating out more than 120 dancers from around the world. Her final opponent was Marlee Hightower, a dancer from Orlando and a Red Bull Dance ambassador  the kind of résumé line most competitors spend a decade chasing. JOAT itself is one of the largest street dance festivals in North America, held every early September in Montreal, drawing battlers, workshops, and crews from across the street dance world. Matamiyu is 12.

 

 

 

 

 

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Who Is Matamiyu, and Why Does This Win Matter?

If you're just meeting her, here's the short version: Matamiyu has been competing internationally since 2023 and is managed by Jam Republic, a Singapore-based talent agency, since October 2024. Her Instagram account, @matamiyu, has grown past 1.9 million followers, largely off clips of her freestyle battles.

This wasn't a fluke. In June 2026, three months before Montreal, she won the Hip Hop U18 title at Future Pace x OSHEE 2026 in Kraków, Poland  beating a dancer known as M.O.D., the reigning Red Bull Dance Your Style Austria champion, and picking up the event's Best Dancer award along the way. Two continents, two Red Bull-affiliated opponents, two wins, one calendar year. That's the pattern that makes JOAT less of a surprise and more of a confirmation.

Inside Club Soda, the room runs the way most JOAT battles do  a packed floor, a DJ cutting breaks live, judges circling the cypher, phones up the second a move lands clean. It's loud, sweaty, and unscripted, which is part of why a battle win carries more weight in street dance circles than a choreographed stage performance. There's nowhere to hide a bad round.

What makes Matamiyu's run notable to people outside the scene isn't just the win column. It's the gap: a middle schooler repeatedly closing out finals against adults who've spent years on the professional battle circuit, at festivals that set the tone for where hip hop dance is heading next.

"Age is just a number when talent, hard work, and courage meet it." sentiment shared alongside Matamiyu's win, echoed across the Indonesian dance community online 

What's Next for Matamiyu?

There's no confirmed next competition announced publicly as of this writing. Given her 2026 pace Kraków in June, Montreal in September  another international battle before year-end wouldn't be a stretch.

For now, JOAT 2026 puts an Indonesian name on a trophy that's usually claimed by dancers from the US, Canada, or Western Europe. For a scene still building its international footing, that's the headline.