DATE: 10/7/2016 10am
LOCATION: Lake Placid Center for the Arts
COST: $2
For Tickets: 518.523.2512
For Tickets: 518.523.2512
Don't miss this Philadelphia-based company working in contemporary, West African, and old-school hip-hop styles, blended with an eclectic mix of dance and performance disciplines including tap, ballet, DJing, and beatboxing.
lllstyle & Peace Productions is a multicultural Philadelphia-based dance company founded in 2002 by Brandon "Peace" Albright. The company creates work rooted in contemporary, West African, and old-school hip-hop styles, blended with an eclectic mix of dance and performance disciplines including tap, ballet, DJing, and beatboxing.
With incredible energy and personalities to match, the dancers of Illstyle & Peace demonstrate that by perseverance and focus, you can reach your highest goals. Tracing hip hop dance styles from the late 70's through today, this acclaimed ensemble teaches positive messages, including "Think It—Do It—Become It." The groups celebrates the art and movement of hip hop and includes a funky blend of locking, breaking, popping, tap and house dancing, vocal percussions, D.J.ing, and modern and traditional dance forms. An emphasis is placed on the similarity of some hip hop moves to those found in ballet, modern and traditional dance forms.
lllstyle & Peace Productions has toured to critical acclaim nationally and internationally and is committed to delivering positive messages to all audiences.
"Watching these dancers was like watching the greatest ballet virtuosos, each fighting gravity and the appearance of effort, and demanding and getting the impossible from the human body. They were fabulous." -The New York Times
https://www.lakeplacidarts.org/performances/illstyle-peace-0