Solid State can provide a wide-range of services including Breakdance workshops, with a full teachers' pedagogical kit, performances, or Art therapy groups with a registered art therapist. They propose an innovative educational approach that will hopefully attract students to participate in dance and encourage their commitment to the learning process.

The participants in our workshops will learn the basics of Breakdancing and participate in a series of activities designed to encourage and foster growth in self-awareness and self esteem while jump starting the student's own creative search for identity.

Lines of race, socio-economic status and gender have been crossed by Hip Hop and it is increasingly clear that it has become a trans-national, global culture capable of mobilizing diverse groups. Due to the popularity of hip-hop among youth of all ages, Breakdancing is the ultimate hook for opening up discussions around identity and self-esteem, within a safe and supportive environment. Because of hip-hop’s keen ability to put words, feelings and movements to the experience of growing up under difficult circumstances, it provides an excellent frame for children and teens to express their own experiences within an educational setting.

Combining Breakdance with contemporary dance concepts could help provide an additional mode of expression that has the ability to assist the adolescent in developing creativity while accessing different emotions. We feel it is important to teach by example, showing students that women do not have to accept a role dictated by mass media and music videos. By participating in a dance form, young women see that they can develop physical strength, while maintaining their feminine identity, and that women do not need to work against each other in competition, but can work together in creation.

If your school or youth group would like more information on how to book us for the 'Workshop series for Teens', or 'Workshops for Young Women', or to receive our full Pedagogical kit, please contact us!