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Rennie Harris was born and raised in Philadelphia, PA, and has brought inner
city dance styles like b-boying (commonly known as breakdancing), stepping
and house dancing to the stage. As founder and artistic director of Rennie
Harris Puremovement, Mr. Harris has become a powerful spokesperson for
"street dance" and continues to educate people of all ages around the country
about hip-hop culture and its origins. Rennie Harris Puremovement (RHPM)
was conceived with the vision of sharing an appreciation for diversity, and is
dedicated to preserving and disseminating hip-hop culture through
workshops, classes, lecture-demonstrations, dance residencies, mentoring
programs and public performances.
Mr. Harris has choreographed numerous works and has won such notable
awards as: the Bessie Award for Choreography (for Rome & Jewels - a hip-
hop ballet based on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet), the Herb Alpert Award,
and was recently voted one of the hundred most influential people in
Philadelphia of the last 100 years.
Resources:
Rennie Harris' Puremovement
www.rhpm.org
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