BRKFST Dance Company, based in St. Paul, Minnesota and founded in 2014, utilizes breaking, hip hop’s first dance form, to create works that are both intellectually stimulating and physically rigorous. In combining breaking with abstraction and contemporary dance vernacular, the company seeks original modes of artistic expression. BRKFST’s egalitarian and choreographic collaboration is rooted in the hip hop adage, “Each One Teach One:” regardless of class, race, experience, age or gender, everyone remains both teacher and student. BRKFST's lineage stems from breaking and hip hop culture: earning respect from battles, receiving real world critique and embodying inclusivity by passing down their knowledge to the new generation. The lived experiences of this collective of artists, who identify as working class, queer and BIPOC, inform their compositions.
BRKFST performs locally, premiering work at the Walker Arts Center, Southern Theater, The Cowles Center and Orchestra Hall with The MN Orchestra; nationally at Temple Theater with Des Moines Symphony in Des Moines, IA and Belding Theater at The Bushnell Hall with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra in Hartford, CT and internationally in Dublin, Ireland for Dance2Connect (D2C) Hip Hop Festival. Their film Dreamers (2019) was deemed an official selection in 11 international film festivals receiving the Grand Jury Award (In/Motion Festival 2021) and Best Experimental Film (Tirana Int. Film Festival 2020).
BRKFST has worked with dancers at Princeton University, New Jersey (2024), University of Akron, Ohio (2024), Bates Dance Festival, Maine (2024), Winona State University, MN (2024), St. Olaf College, MN (2023), Carleton College, MN (2022), D2C Hip Hop Festival, Ireland (2022), Bates Dance Festival, ME (2022) and the University of MN - Twin Cities (2021) teaching breaking technique, BRKFST methodology and setting repertoire and original works.
2024 Princeton University's Caroline Hearst Choreographer-In-Residence
2024 Creative Residency at The National Center for Choreography - Akron, OH
2024 Flexible Support Grant - Metropolitan Regional Arts Council (MRAC)
2024 National Performance Network (NPN) Documentation and Storytelling Grant
2023 NPN Creation and Development Fund Project co-commissioned by John Michael Kohler Arts Center in WI, National Center for Choreography at The University of Akron in OH, Bates Dance Festival in ME and NPN in LA
2023 Minnesota Orchestra's Artist-In-Residency
2023 21st Century Dance Practices Residency at The National Center for Choreography - Akron, OH
2023 MRAC Arts Impact Grant
2023, 2022 & 2021 Minnesota State Arts Board Creative Support Grant
2023 & 2019 MRAC Arts Activities Grant
2022 New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) National Dance Project (NDP) Production Grant
2021 NEFA NDP Finalist
2021 Mid Atlantic Arts USArtists International Grant
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