Versa-Style Dance Company’s latest full-length work, FREE-Mind FREE-Style, consists of high-energy, unadulterated hip hop movement that will explore the depths of improvisational dance. Using street dance vernacular as vehicles of expression, such as locking, popping, hip hop and krump, this unique show offers a brand new experience of freestyle street dance live on stage. Audiences will walk away with a visceral immersion into Hip Hop dance culture.
The work dives into the concept of freedom from all angles: the personal, the political, the physical, and the spiritual. How do we experience freedom? What contains us, oppresses us, and what ultimately allows us to break free? FREE-Mind, FREE-Style explores these questions from both the evolutionary and ancestral lens, blending cutting-edge hip hop, popping, and krump movement with house dance that pays homage to the Afro-Latin roots of Hip Hop dance culture, where street dancers ultimately draw their revolutionary power.
Danced to sonic remixes of hip hop, classical, and electronic music, the work pushes the dancers’ physical limits. It calls upon each artist in the diverse company to draw upon his and her own experience of freedom and the battle it takes to achieve it.