Hip Hop & Street Dance Gatherings
Dance West Network augments the ongoing vibrant hip-hop and street dance scenes (including waacking, house and vogue) in Vancouver and BC with conversations, meetings, film sharings, and workshops with Hip-Hop artists from across Turtle Island.
Hip Hop Gatherings 2023
An online conversation with Rokafella, co-founder of The United Hip-Hop Vanguard
Dance West Network, in collaboration with Pepatian Bronx Arts Collaborative and United Hip-Hop Vanguard, invites you to join us in a one-time conversation with Rokafella, renowned New York City-born and raised dancer, teacher and long-time representative of women hip-hop dancers, and co-founder of United Hip-Hop Vanguard on
Sunday, March 19 2023
NYC born and raised, Ana "Rokafella" Garcia has represented women in Hip-hop dance professionally over the past three decades. She co-founded Full Circle Souljahs, NYC's only non-profit Break Dance Theatre company with her husband veteran Bboy Kwikstep, generating theatre pieces, original poetry and local dance-related events.
Check out this article about Rokafella’s mission, in partnership with Kwikstep, to preserve the cultural roots of hip hop and breakin’.
