Mix & Move: Hip-Hop Grooves

Showcasing dance styles and dancers from across the globe, Mix & Move is our monthly programme of accessible dance workshops to get you moving to the music. Each session ends with an hour to socialise and connect in the space with your fellow movers and groovers.

For this instalment of Mix & Move, Avant Garde Dance Company’s Associate Artist Dani Harris-Walters brings good vibes, hip-hop expertise and accessible adaptations to guide you through the moves and have you dancing into spring.

Harris-Walters is joined by our resident dancers Damien Anyasi and Natasha Khamjani to introduce you to new dance styles, taking you through the steps so you can light up the dance floor and discover new rhythms.

Each Mix & Move event offers you the chance to explore different forms of dance, learn new moves and meet new people, with plenty of accessible adaptations. Running in blocks of three, come along to get to grips with a dance style for two sessions, and then break out your moves in the final social dance session, celebrating the sounds and the moves of the dance.

Schedule
Fri 23 May: 3pm – 5pm, dance workshop; 5pm – 6pm, social dance
Fri 20 Jun: 12 noon – 2pm, dance workshop; 2pm – 3pm, social dance

Avant Garde is at the forefront of London’s innovative hip-hop/contemporary dance scene, founded in 2001 and led by Artistic Director Tony Adigun. The mantra ‘Innovate Never Replicate’ resonates throughout the company’s work and embraces a sense of difference, individuality and uniqueness. Avant Garde’s unique dance vocabulary has a razor-sharp eye for dance composition, musicality and form.

Dani Harris-Walters is a dance artist, choreographer, DJ and all-around hip-hop culture enthusiast. With a BA in Dance: Urban Practice from the University of East London, he brings a fresh, experimental twist to dance, blending styles to create a unique language of movement. He’s the founder of company DHW, which makes engaging and relatable hip-hop theatre.