TRAINING PROGRAMS FOR FEMALE HIP HOP DANCERS
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Through female-powered workshops, performances, public talks, and professional development training, LOHH is educating and cultivating Hip-Hop's next generation of female leaders.
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Together, we can create a brighter and more equitable future for all.
LADIES IN TRAINING (L.I.T.)
BEING A PART OF L.I.T, DANCERS WILL PARTAKE IN A CURRICULUM DEDICATED TO TEACHING STREET AND CLUB DANCE CULTURE.
Ladies of Hip Hop (LOHH) training company, Ladies in Training (L.I.T.) offers a cultivated environment for people to learn and strengthen one’s knowledge of street and club dance forms and culture while being in community with fellow women in Ladies of Hip Hop.
THE NEXT TRAINING COHORT IS APRIL 15 - JUNE 14, 2024
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LOHHs training company, Ladies in Training (L.I.T.) offers a cultivated environment for people to learn and strengthen one’s knowledge of street and club dance forms and culture while being in community with fellow women in Ladies of Hip Hop. Launched in May 2022, L.I.T. had two successful 6-month seasons with cohorts of 12-15 women. Based on these seasons, we hope to move to a three-month intensive model (twice a year) that ends with a final assessment and performance to support dancer development.
Being a part of L.I.T., dancers will partake in a curriculum dedicated to teaching street and club dance culture. This training will be offered by Company and guest instructors in various modules that may include dance classes, lectures, and community events. Along with technique, dancers will learn aspects of auditioning, performing, and battling as key environments street and club dancers participate in.In addition to training, Training Company members will have an end of intensive performance.
GIRLS OF HIP HOP
a dance program for girls 7-17 dedicated to the foundation of Hip Hop dance
Led by Ladies of Hip-Hop Dance Collective members, girls ages 7-17 will immerse themselves in Hip-Hop dance culture. Our women-powered staff will introduce the girls to basic dance vocabulary, hip hop dance history, hip hop grooves, and related cultural history.
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Girls of Hip Hop (GOHH) is a dance program for girls 7-17 dedicated to the foundation of Hip Hop dance, including old- school into current Hip-Hop styles, intro to breaking, house, popping, locking, vogue, waacking, providing education on the history of the culture, health and wellness training along with performance opportunities.
This programming supports creating racial and cultural equity through the performing arts. Dance improves motor skills, decision making, creativity, risk taking cultural understanding, attentiveness, and awareness. GOHH brings quaL.I.T.y dance programming to youth who would have difficulty accessing these opportunities.
Led by Ladies of Hip-Hop Dance Collective members, girls ages 7-17 will immerse themselves in Hip-Hop dance culture. Our women-powered staff will introduce the girls to basic dance vocabulary, hip hop dance history, hip hop grooves, and related cultural history. Join us as we build the next generation of change makers!
THE BLACK DANCING BODIES PROJECT
an initiative to uplift and celebrate Black women in street and club dance culture
Black Dancing Bodies (BDB) is an ongoing street and club dance project addressing the erasure, miscoding, and often intentional exclusion of Black women’s work and voices. BDB has embarked on the journey to collect, preserve and tell the stories of these women through dance works, interviews and photo documentation; presented from stage to the streets.
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Awarded a Works & Process residency in January 2021, LOHH dance collective began an iterative process building dance works exploring the lived cultural experiences of Black girlhood, Black womanhood and the intersection of race, class, gender, sexuality, and politics through the lens of Hip-Hop culture.
The Black Dancing Bodies Project is an ongoing photo documentary of Black women in Hip-Hop dance. Through a series of sessions, the project aims to tell their stories through photography and interviews. Our ultimate goal is to create a book spotlighting and preserving the beauty, strength, and lived experiences of Black women in street dance.
This project was created to capture the beauty and power of Black female street dancers. The exposure for Black bodies in dance is a very exclusive lens that overwhelmingly focuses on Black dancers that perform eurocentric dance aesthetics (modern, contemporary and Ballet, etc..). Black women in Hip-Hop dance don't often get covers of dance magazines. While often undervalued and rarely celebrated, Black women have been holding this country down since its formation and continue to lead across industries often with less visibility than their white counterparts, and with little to no accolades. So, when Black women are invited or featured with their white counterparts; it is overwhelming through the white lens.
With the success of the first session of The Black Dancing Bodies Project, we are eager to highlight the stories of more women. Documentation is a crucial component in the preservation of Hip-Hop and we hope to continue documenting the importance, power, and presence of Black women in Hip-Hop dance.
Check out the ladies from session 1
JULY 9-14, 2024