ORIGINS/Freemind Freestyle

Founded by Los Angeles natives and co-artistic directors, Jackie “Miss Funk” Lopez and Leigh “Breeze-Lee” Foaad, Versa-Style Dance Company was created to promote, empower, and celebrate the artistry of Hip Hop and street dance culture and harness its exhilarating energy for the concert stage. The company’s latest full-length work, Freemind Freestyle, explores the depths of improvisational dance, diving into the concept of freedom from all angles: the personal, political, physical, and the spiritual. How do we experience freedom? What contains us, oppresses us? What allows us to break free? Freemind Freestyle explores these questions from both the evolutionary and ancestral lens, blending Hip Hop, Popping, Krump, and House dance movement that pays homage to the Afro-Latin roots of Hip Hop dance culture from which we draw our revolutionary power.

Freemind Freestyle was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew J. Mellon Foundation.*

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