Festival Title: Break it Out!
Festival Mission: Break it Out! is dance festival celebrating the LGBTQ community, and which encourages young people to be proud, strong, and confident. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, LGBTQ youth are twice as likely to have attempted suicide than their heterosexual peers, and were far more likely to have experienced bullying, depression, substance abuse, and negative attitudes towards schooling too. Involvement with music and dance can change the lives of LGBTQ young people -- and their peers as well. This festival will help get all kids involved, using positive energy and creativity to generate a forward-thinking community that supports the ambitions and dreams of young people.
The dance festival will include workshops and performances by local and national organizations in a variety of styles, but will focus on hip-hop dancing, music, and art as a means to provide a high-energy engaging atmosphere accessible to all. By focusing on traditional break dancing and its acrobatic moves, the choreographers will help challenge participants while also inspiring them to reach higher and work hard to achieve their goals. It is important to solicit as much audience engagement as possible, and hip-hop provides the means by which to grab attention in an informal way.
Hip-hop has its roots as s resistance and empowerment movement, and continues to symbolize self-empowerment, pride, and joy. Social workers have found that the elements of hip-hop can serve as "a conduit to enhanced cultural competence and practice skills through the individual and community empowerment framework," (Travis and Deepak 203). Because of the sheer diversity of hip-hop dance styles and its amenability to multiple forms of music and choreography, the festival organizers will have the opportunity to work with solo and group artists during performances and...
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