Is rhythm learned or is it inherited? In Rennie Harris’ American Street Dancer we explore how rhythm and percussion can travel, and has in fact traveled, through time, lineage, and lived experience.

Dancer and choreographer Rennie Harris (left) works with dancers to prepare for the premiere of "American Street Dancer" March 14 and 15 at Penn Live Arts (Peter Crimmins/WHYY) From Philly and the Pa.

The Joyce Theater Foundation will present the New York premiere of American Street Dancer from Rennie Harris Puremovement American Street Dance Theater. Hip-hop pioneer Rennie Harris returns to The ...

The music and dancing, whether at home or during each and every cerebration, have always been part of his life. From the youngest child to the oldest person involved, everyone could and would dance ...

The high priest of hip hop, street dance ambassador, a living legend—all these epithets, often bestowed upon Rennie Harris, ring true in announcing what he represents in American culture and beyond ...

Twyla Tharp led the way with her distinct brand of American classicism, along with other artists who stepped it up.

In 1991 the Rennie Harris Puremovement American Street Dance Theater was founded, creating simultaneously the term “street dance theater” and the first ever hip-hop company. Since then, the company ...

As the founder of street dance crew Millenium Robots, B-boy Julius “Eclypse” Jenkins’s mechanized style of popping is his signature hip-hop dance technique. For 25 years, Jenkins has upheld the ...