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OUR MISSION

    To provide vocational, artistic, cultural, and social services to communities and underserved dancers globally.

OUR PURPOSE

    THE D.R.E.A.M. RING (DANCE RULES EVERYTHING AROUND ME), founded in 2011 by Reggie Gray and Jason Cust, is a community-oriented performance and competition company that showcases and supports artists that embody the Brooklyn born street dance style, Flexing. The D.R.E.A.M. RING provides youth with a safe environment to express their artistry and a wealth of opportunities for sharing their creativity with the community—such as performing in schools and teaching in after school programs. Professional development is also a core goal of the company, as the D.R.E.A.M. RING provides guidance and resources for young artists to learn how to display their talents through social media marketing, branding, artist reels, and dance videos, cultivating the skills needed to build careers in the dance industry. D.R.E.A.M. inspires, educates, and communicates through dance. We aspire to build character and develop creative individuals that are community-oriented and produce social change by using their talents. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     

     D.R.E.A.M. RING artists create bodies of work that showcase creativity and team work through tag-team and two-man performances. TAG-TEAM performances consist of groups of quartets whose goal is to choreograph duets, within the group, that highlight each other’s styles and narratives individually and collectively. TWO-MAN performances are duets that showcase artists with the same or complimenting styles and their goal is to choreograph a body of work that exemplifies those styles through a singular narrative. These artists use the creative and improvisational expressions of FLEXING such as pauzin, connecting, get low/floor, bone-breaking, hat tricks, and gliding and other dance styles that influence them such as krumping, ballet, modern, and housing to become the storytellers of their generation.

 

Our vision

    FLEXING is the essence of Brooklyn and this company, “The D.R.E.A.M. RING” (DANCE RULES EVERYTHING AROUND ME). FLEX dance will not only be known as a distinguished and genuine mode of expression but a creative engine that will unite communities for social change around the world. Our team-oriented company’s goal is to gain global popularity by exposing our audiences to the various styles of street dance and inspiring them to embrace and join our distinctive aesthetic and cultural dance performance and competition company. 

 


                       

                                                     

    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE D.R.E.A.M. RING experience

 

D.R.E.A.M. RING XPERIENCE (2hr master class)

    During the D.R.E.A.M. RING XPERIENCE, young artists will learn about the history of Flexing and the foundational dance styles of Flexing, bruk-up and dancehall.  The various expressions of flexing will be showcased to the young artists who will then incorporate the flex styles into choreography. The choreography will allow the young artists to practice the styles of flexing such as pauzin, connecting, get low/floor, bone-breaking, hat tricks, and gliding individually, as well as, in two-man pairings. The D.R.E.A.M. RING XPERIENCE ends with a cypher where young artist can incorporate flexing techniques and their own dance styles within their performance for the group. 

 

D.R.E.A.M. TALKS (25 mins)

     D.R.E.A.M. TALKS are interactive conversations with the community led by the founders and host of the D.R.E.A.M. RING. These discussions will cover how dance can be used for social change, the strides flexing has made to bring awareness to communities about issues within society, and general questions.  

 

 

D.R.E.A.M. RING (3hr)

    Dance artists within the community and dancers of the flexing community will participate in a performance and competition showcase. The artists will follow the D.R.E.A.M. RING team-oriented format of two-man and tag team groupings. Dancers will create and perform narratives to the tunes of producer William Perkins aka Uninamise. D.R.E.A.M. RING audiences will then choose their favorite two-man and tag-team performances and those dancers will become ambassadors of the D.R.E.A.M. RING (DANCE RULES EVERYTHING AROUND ME).       

 

 

 

 

THE D.R.E.A.M. RING CREDITS

REGGIE GRAY - C.e.o./founder

aBENA FLOYD - PRESIDENT/EVENT COORDINATOR

AYINDE HART - HEAD MEDIA COORDINATOR

MUSIC PRODUCER - Bernard "epic b" Foy

HOST - KEVIN WILLIAMS AKA JUS KEV

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