ELEVATE CHICAGO DANCE 2022

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ELEVATE CHICAGO DANCE 2017

LAB ARTIST 2017

Daniel “BRAVEMONK” Haywood, a cultural ambassador and leader in the Hip-Hop community, has served both nationally and internationally as an artist, performer, educator, choreographer, host, judge and competitor over the last 18 years.  BRAVEMONK is a member of Chicago’s legendary and internationally recognized breaking crew Phaze II Crosstown Crew (Est. 1982), Co-founding Director of BraveSoul Movement, a founding contributor and Co-Host of Power Style Radio, and an advisory board member of Chicago Dance History Project.  BRAVEMONK’s movement vocabulary is rooted in African American urban vernacular dance forms including Breaking, Hip-Hop social dances and house. He also draws on his training in martial arts and other embodied Afro-diasporic movement languages. As a new faculty member at the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago, BRAVEMONK will be teaching the institution’s first course in breaking this fall 2017.