3 Day Intensive offered as part of The Seattle Festival of Dance and Improvisation produced by Velocity Dance Center. The intensive will be in person in Seattle and online.

The Rhythm Assembly: Dancing Our Influences is an intentional investigation into the sampling nature of creating dance in the moment of improvisation/freestyle or in a choreographic process and to your position to the cultures that inspire you. Our individual cultural lens affects the way we perceive the world and our relationship to it. Through the merging of hip hop and contemporary improvisation methods and compositional tools, we will strive to make more culturally informed and empowered choices. The complex nuances of appropriation/appreciation will be acknowledged but is not the focus of this intensive. Neither hip hop or contemporary dance experience are necessary or expected. For pre professional and professional dance artists from any dance culture or form.