Teaches Funk in Focus- popping and other funkstyle influences.
Thursday's at 7:30pm
(All ages and All Levels welcome- drop in class)
DC Dance Collective
4908 Wisconsin Ave, NW
Washington, DC
www.dcdancecollective.com
Born and raised in New York City, Rashaad Pearson grew up watching many urban dance forms and listened to a variety of music. When he moved to the Washington D.C. Metro area in 2003, he took dance more seriously and met people who taught him foundation at The D.C./Baltimore Pop Shop. Rashaad’s styles of dance are Popping, House, Hip Hop, Locking, and Waacking. Rashaad has competed in and won various dance competitions around the country, such as Unity & Respect in Boston (2006), Step Ya Game Up in NYC (2007), and All the Way Live in the San Francisco Bay Area (2008). He was also a battle guest at 4 Da Next Level 2 in Busan, Korea (2008). Rashaad currently dances with The Assassins Crew and is the Artistic Director for Popping in Urban Artistry Dance Company.
The Dance Institute of Washington 202-371-9656 Located at 3400 14th Street, NW Washington, DC 20010. Conveniently located and Metro accessible in the revitalized Columbia Heights section of Washington, DC.
Rizqi is in high demand as a dance educator who combines years of urban dance, freestyle/fusion hip hop, performance choreography and competitive martial arts study into his classes for a fun, eclectic and original style. He has extensive experience as a youth dance educator and choreographer from his years as the Director for Future Shock, DC and has created countless performance choreographies for local classes and companies in the DC Metro Area. As a founding member of Urban Artistry and an active member of the International Assassins Crew, Rizqi has found himself competing, performing and judging all over the world with his unique and memorable style. He recently directed the Urban Artistry Youth Performers in the Cozza Connection Project DC for DJ Basnectars Fall 2009 tour, along with apprentice Artistic Directors Desmond Howard and Gabe Galbraith and has played a major role alongside the other talented Urban Artistry Artistic Directors, in the development of the performance "Time to Come Home: A Tribute" with Coyaba Dance Theater winner of the Metro DC Dances Award for Emerging Performer or Group in 2009. When he is not practicing various form of movement, he is traveling or studying an array of topics in the field of Economics, Culture, Education and Peace in the Middle East both locally and abroad. Join him on Saturday's at the Dance Institute of Washington or for other special workshops throughout the DC Metro Area.
Congratulations to all who competed at REDEMPTION in Philly October 24th, 2009. Big shout out to Gabe "Shamrock" Galbraith for winning the up and coming battle, and to all the UA performers who entered the up and coming and the all styles battles that afternoon.
The Sleepwalkingz and the US Embassy in Sofia, Bulgaria invited the Directors from Urban Artistry to visit Sofia and Smolyn, Bulgaria for the Jam On It 10th Anniversary Festival this past September 2009! We were honored to be invited and had the most amazing experience during this trip. Pictures, video and comments from the individual members can be seen at out facebook and youtube page.
Jam On It 10th Anniversary Trailer:
(to see the full length Urban Artistry Performance, please visit our youtube page at www.youtube.com/urbanartistry)
The Soul Society Festival is coming again to the DC Metro Area in 2010- Save the Date for the weekend of April 15th through April 18th 2010 as Urban Artistry and Rogue Squirrel bring another great International Festival of urban dance and culture to the DC Metro Area. Stay tuned for details about the festival coming soon, including venues, parties, competitions, workshops, judges and more...coming soon!
A Cozza Connection community service spotlight on Hip Hop Education and Urban Artistry.
Hip Hop Education is a DC-area organization dedicated to "keeping it street" by providing real, empowering, and positive lyrics for area children to perform and listen to.
http://Hiphopeducation.us/
Urban Artistry is an internationally known, multigenerational performance organization that spans the spectrum of performance styles. Urban Artistry has incredible knowledge of the capacity of our bodies, and respects the value of movement for everyone. Because of this respect, much of the funds they raise and the work they do is contributed to provide prosthetic limbs to child amputees in partnership with Kicking for Kids Who Can't, because nothing should slow these kids down.
http://urbanartistry.org/
Produced by Megan Keefe and Petri Dish TV. Huge thanks is due!
Written by Lia Holland of Bassnectarlabs and Community Activism
This film created by the amazing filmmaker Megan Keefe and her crew, documents a collaboration project between Urban Artistry: an International Culture and Education Project based in Washington, DC and Hip Hop Education, a 501(c)(3) located in Maryland which was created to help provide children with rap & hip hop lyrics that speak to their experience and are age appropriate.
The collaboration project is sponsored by the Fall 2009 DJ Bassnectar Tour. Please visit the 9:30 Club on Thursday, November 12th 2009 at 8:00pm to see the youth from both organizations perform their work live before the show!
Thank you to everyone who made this project possible, Everyone from Hip Hop Education, filmmaker Megan Keefe and her crew, Show Director Rizqi Rachmat, Director of Operations at Urban Artistry Emily Wessel, Executive Director of Urban Artistry Junious "House" Brickhouse, Urban Artistry Director of IT Management Harley "Halfstep" Jackson who made the connection with KFKWC possible, all the Urban Artistry members who helped out, The Assassins Crew and Cab Cru for their support in this project, the youth and parents from Urban Artistry, Youth Show Directors Gabe Galbraith and Desmond Howard, Tim and Ginna Goodenow from Kicking for Kids who Can't,
Lia from the Dj Bassnectar Tour and most importantly DJ Bassnectar for allowing us to provide this performance space for our kids!
Great work everyone!
See the documentary & performance Live at the DJ Bassnectar Cozza Frenzy Tour Show at the 9:30 Club on Thursday, November 12th, 2009 at 8:00pm- get your tickets early before they sell-out! This event is going to be amazing!
See a preview of the documentary on youtube at this link:
Join Urban Artistry Dancers and DJ's this weekend at the Kicking For Kids Who Can't, Annual Kick-a-thon this Sunday on The National Mall from 1:00pm to 3:30pm.
This is an all ages event that is open to the public and FREE!
Please visit www.kfkwc.org for more information or contact us directly at eewessel@urbanartistry.org- Thanks for the support!
