Big moves is a dance company that was founded in 2000 by Marina Wolf Ahmad. Ahmad’s aim was to show the world that dancing isn’t just for a certain type of people – it’s for everybody. Big, small, athletic, clumsy – if you want to dance, you can.

Since then, Ahmad and her company have been working on spreading the love of dance across the globe and helping plus-sized people get involved.

The dancers in Big Moves don’t’ dance to lose weight – they dance to strengthen their bodies and express themselves. And they show that being big doesn’t make you less of an amazing dancer – you can be just as flexible, strong, and talented as anybody else!

Big Moves helps plus-size people get involved in dancing, but their message is for everyone – you shouldn’t let other people’s expectations define who you are. If you have a passion – follow it, and don’t listen to the haters!

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Hiplet, a combination of Hip Hop and Ballet, was created by dance teacher Homer Bryant of the Chicago Multicultural Dance school. His goal was to take the classical, sometimes a bit outdated classical ballet and freshen it up with elements of African-American and Latino dance.

Hiplet dancers are not any less talented or skilled as classical ballerinas. In fact, all the dancers in Bryant’s dance group are classically trained and they can perform in any classical ballet. But these young dancers didn’t feel at home in classical ballet. They wanted to combine they’re own culture and passion into the centuries-old form of art.

Hiplet takes the most impressive elements of ballet and hip hop and combines them. Hiplet dancers wear pointe shoes and dance on the tip of their toes like ballerinas, but also move their entire bodies around like Hip Hop dancers. This new way to move your body is so stunning and unique, it’s just a matter of time until it takes over the dancing world.  

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Athena Andrade was born in Rhode Island, and she started dancing at the early age of 6 and it has been a perpetual journey of beauty and bliss up till this day.

She started learning everything dance-related from ballet to Hip-Hop, Jazz, Acrobatics, and Lyrical at the Rising Stars Dance Academy. Andrade’s desire to grow and master the art of dancing has given her a platform to train with some of the best in the industry at an early age,  including Travis Wall, Chantel Aquirre, Mark Meismer, Jojo Gomez, Talia Favia, Victor Smalley, among others.

Signed to McDonald Selznick Associates, Andrade has filmed two projects for Marvel, including a commercial for Black Panther and Avenger’s Infinity War Hasbro collections. Additionally, this talented young dancer has also filmed seven episodes for GooNoodle.

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Big moves is a dance company that was founded in 2000 by Marina Wolf Ahmad. Ahmad’s aim was to show the world that dancing isn’t just for a certain type of people – it’s for everybody. Big, small, athletic, clumsy – if you want to dance, you can.

Since then, Ahmad and her company have been working on spreading the love of dance across the globe and helping plus-sized people get involved.

The dancers in Big Moves don’t’ dance to lose weight – they dance to strengthen their bodies and express themselves. And they show that being big doesn’t make you less of an amazing dancer – you can be just as flexible, strong, and talented as anybody else!

Big Moves helps plus-size people get involved in dancing, but their message is for everyone – you shouldn’t let other people’s expectations define who you are. If you have a passion – follow it, and don’t listen to the haters!

The post These Plus-Size Dancers Redefine Beauty With Every Move appeared first on MobiSpirit.

Hiplet, a combination of Hip Hop and Ballet, was created by dance teacher Homer Bryant of the Chicago Multicultural Dance school. His goal was to take the classical, sometimes a bit outdated classical ballet and freshen it up with elements of African-American and Latino dance.

Hiplet dancers are not any less talented or skilled as classical ballerinas. In fact, all the dancers in Bryant’s dance group are classically trained and they can perform in any classical ballet. But these young dancers didn’t feel at home in classical ballet. They wanted to combine they’re own culture and passion into the centuries-old form of art.

Hiplet takes the most impressive elements of ballet and hip hop and combines them. Hiplet dancers wear pointe shoes and dance on the tip of their toes like ballerinas, but also move their entire bodies around like Hip Hop dancers. This new way to move your body is so stunning and unique, it’s just a matter of time until it takes over the dancing world.  

The post This Dance Group Combines Ballet With Hip Hop appeared first on MobiSpirit.

Athena Andrade was born in Rhode Island, and she started dancing at the early age of 6 and it has been a perpetual journey of beauty and bliss up till this day.

She started learning everything dance-related from ballet to Hip-Hop, Jazz, Acrobatics, and Lyrical at the Rising Stars Dance Academy. Andrade’s desire to grow and master the art of dancing has given her a platform to train with some of the best in the industry at an early age,  including Travis Wall, Chantel Aquirre, Mark Meismer, Jojo Gomez, Talia Favia, Victor Smalley, among others.

Signed to McDonald Selznick Associates, Andrade has filmed two projects for Marvel, including a commercial for Black Panther and Avenger’s Infinity War Hasbro collections. Additionally, this talented young dancer has also filmed seven episodes for GooNoodle.

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