Harris’ Puremovement takes hip hop from the street to the stage, and Harper’s theatrical style of dance excites the senses with a multi-disciplinary approach.

With a visionary’s commitment, Puremovement founder Rennie Harris single-handedly gave life to the ballet of the streets by skillfully blurring the lines of the classic and the concrete. Famous for the hip-hoperatic, Rome and Jules, the company claims the conventional and transforms it into hip hop’s firstborn.

The Francesca Harper Project aspires to create a unique style of dance theater – classical dance forms, deconstructed and fused with cutting-edge text, music, film and video. The content of the pieces will be rooted in our most fundamental themes: creation, imperfection, love, humanity, power, politics, and identity. Francesca Harper is a singer, dancer, and storyteller of the highest order. Her talent begs the question – why would a dancer only dance? Pulling out all of the stops of movement and theater, Harper uses dramatic visual backdrops, live vocals and film with which her dancers commune. In any other circumstance, these accoutrements would threaten to distract, however Ms. Harper perfectly utilizes them to accentuate the sensuality that is her dance.

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