Open Rehearsal: STORMCLUTTER by BRKFST Dance Company

Join NCCAkron for an open rehearsal of BRKFST Dance Company’s new work STORMCLUTTER, set to music by company member Renée Copeland, as well as a reworking of their piece to composer Daniel Roumain Bernard's Dancers, Dreamers, and Presidents.

BRKFST Dance Company (Saint Paul, MN) seeks to create intellectually rigorous, physically demanding works of art through abstraction, breaking and contemporary dance vernacular. Exploring original modes of artistic expression is continuously pursued. BRKFST’s egalitarian and choreographic collaboration is rooted in the Hip Hop adage, "Each One Teach One". Regardless of class, race, experience, age or gender, everyone remains both teacher and student. BRKFST's lineage stems from breaking and hip hop culture: earning respect from battles and embodying inclusivity by passing down their knowledge to the new generation. The lived experiences of this collective who identify as working class, queer and BIPOC, inform their compositions. brkfstdance.com

STORMCLUTTER and the Community Commissioning Residency are a part of NCCAkron's Ideas in Motion Initiative. Ideas in Motion is made possible by the support of Peg’s Foundation and The University of Akron Foundation’s Mary Schiller Myers Lecture Series in the Arts. NCCAkron is grateful to Stephen E. Myers, trustee of the University of Akron Foundation and the Myers Foundation and son of Mary Schiller Myers, for his support.

STORMCLUTTER was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Foundation and the Mellon Foundation.

STORMCLUTTER is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation & Development Fund Project co-commissioned by Bates Dance Festival (Lewiston, ME), John Michael Kohler Arts Center (Sheboygan, WI), The National Center for Choreography (Akron, OH), and NPN. More information: npnweb.org.

Photo by Courtney Perry