Hip-Hop Dance Goes Pro with The Hip-Hop Dance Conservatory

Blade Dance Entertainment industry veterans Safi A. Thomas and Michelle Seabreeze announced the creation of a dance conservatory dedicated to the education of hip-hop dancers. "The entertainment industry needs quality and proficient hip-hop dancers. For the past 6 years we've done that. It's not enough to 'show' dancers choreography. Most hip-hop dancers have no idea about movement patterns or what to do on the set of a music video. We're here to make it happen for them." said Safi Thomas, Founder and Artistic Director of The Hip-Hop Dance Conservatory

(PRWEB) March 12, 2005 -- Characterized by the essence of it's urban ambiguities, hip-hop dance transcends reality with movement definition that epitomizes strength, determination, struggle, pain, anger and rebirth. Often misrepresented through mysoginistic actualization, hip-hop dance remains obscured by danceploitation and nescience, stunting it's growth as a viable artform in the eyes of the classical dance community.

Fulfilling the mission of it's parent company Blade Dance Entertainment, The Hip-Hop Dance Conservatory (HDC) provides dynamic, quality, and proficient dancers for utilization within the professional entertainment industry. Music Videos, tours, live theater performances, artist development and creative direction all fall within the purview of an HDC graduate.

HDC takes dancers on a pilgramage from urban to urbane and back. Developing a balanced hip-hop dance pedagogy that retains it's roots yet celebrates it's growth, transformation and diversity.

Building leaders through the advancement of dance education being their doctrine, HDC has pioneered structured hip-hop dance education. Fusing classical dance theory and music theory with b-boy movement vocabulary and hip-hop music theory, HDC bridges the academic divide that has kept hip-hop dancers from attaining the respect and notoriety of their classical dance counterparts. Allowing for an HDC graduate to achieve a level of success unparalleled by untrained hip-hop dancers.

HDC is the precursor to a hip-hop dance codification. Bringing to light the history, movement vocabulary and dynamic essence that is hip-hop dance. Allowing for all dancers regardless of their level or genre of dance training to achieve optimal proficiency.

Welcome to the future of hip-hop dance training.

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