Congratulations to Johnston-Hopkins Elementary School & their wonderful staff on receiving the very 1st Stay H.Y.P.E. Award (How You Prepare Everyday). Much love to the Iberia Parish School Board, News15, KATC-TV 3: Acadiana's NewsChannel & local community leaders for your support!
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Excited, and blessed to be included as Louisiana’s Connection to hip-hop culture in the upcoming 2023 Dance Appreciation online textbook. The course is being designed for the State Board of Regents Dual Enrollment (high school & college) program. To be mentioned along side some of the pioneers & icons of this beautiful culture is truly an honor.
Thank you Cissy Whipp & LOUIS: The Louisiana Library Network - Paul Kieu Photography!
Check out our latest feature by KADN Fox 15 highlighting our Get H.Y.P.E. (How You Prepare Everyday) program below!
The TMM Project (The True Mission Matters Project) dancers, deejays and musicians inspired students to be their best selves in our latest perfromance at the Cathedral Carmel School in Lafayette Parish.
All smiles today at the 2022 Back to School Bash. Big shoutout to Stephanie Hartman & Gulf Coast Organization!
The power of coming together and creating is something special. All of these people aren’t only amazing artists but also great human beings!
Shoutout to the Louisiana Library Association for hosting a great state conference. As always a Huge Thank You to Pabby for your hard work & support throughout the years.
Nothing but positive energy with great people! Cathedral-Carmel School! Thanks to the staff and students today!
Feeling is everything and passion just makes everything feel right! Thank you Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Louisiana & Young Audiences of Louisiana for always being great organizations in the community.
Last night was a special one! Shoutout to the Alexandria Museum of Art - all the dope artists & the whole Ignite The Mic Alexandria team.
I was honored to be featured in Basin Arts weekly Art Circle series, which profiles artists throughout the Acadiana community. Check out a preview of my feature below and click here to read the full article!
I am honored to have received this award by the Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana, Billy Nungesser. This award wouldn't be possible without my family and the Kabuki Dancers.
An anti-bullying campaign is encouraging elementary school students to talk about their problems before picking on someone.
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The Drop the B.E.A.T (Bullying Ends After Talking) program shared ways for students to open dialogues through skits and songs. Dance and spoken word, and musical performances were also a part of Thursday’s program
Members of the anti-bullying group say they hope children will learn how to talk about their problems as children to make them better adults.
The campaign for anti-bullying launched at Corporal Michael Middlebrook Elementary in Lafayette.
LAFAYETTE — They are an unlikely group of crusaders. Three dancers, a poet and a drummer. Their strength is a combination of narration, dance and live percussion.
And a willingness to tackle the toughest of subjects.
Jude Romero, Torrez Hypolite, Herb "Pucci" Green, Alex “PoeticSoul” Johnson and leader Terrance Morgan, collectively known as the Kabuki Dancers, are the progenitors of “Drop the BEAT,” which stands for Bullying Ends After Talking. On this morning, they're at the recently renamed Middlebrook Elementary.
Of all the causes they could preach — literacy, stay in school, physical fitness, anti-drugs — the Acadiana-based group chose the most difficult.
“Originally, we were just people who wanted to break and practice,” says Romero. “Clubs, battling in Baton Rouge, New Orleans and then Texas.”
By break, Romero means dance, a style that originated in the Bronx in the mid-1970s. Often performed to rap music by male teens in the streets, the style is characterized by intricate footwork, pantomime, spinning headstands, tumbling and improvisation.
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