Students will learn techniques and underlying grooves associated with house dance, a form that grew out of the house music subculture in Chicago and New York in the early 1980s, and is now widely practiced across the globe. This class will reinforce hallmarks of house movement including the counter-pull of energies in the body, intricate footwork patterns, polyrhythmic musicality, and freestyle (improvisation) interspersing cultural contexts of the form. Kelsa & Bravemonk build a sense of community in their class supporting students to take risks and find the balance between strong technical training and cathartic release.
Artist BIo
BraveSoul was born organically in 2016 as the newest iteration of a 15-year synergy between two of Chicago’s influential street dance artists: Daniel “BRAVEMONK” Haywood and Kelsa “K-Soul” Robinson. BraveSoul, which focuses on concert and site-specific dance performances, education and social/community-building practices, is rooted in the movement languages and cultures of Hip-Hop and House, as well as martial arts, a wide-range of improv traditions and other Afro-disporan movement languages.
BRAVEMONK and K-Soul share a connection with Spirit as a central driving force in their relationship to movement, artistic expression and the creative process, and their collective energies are consistently described as raw, electric and inspiring.