Solid State Breakdance Collective

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Solid State was founded in 2000. The eight-woman collective originated as a network of breakdancers or "b-girls" who came together to build their skills and teach one another in a cooperative learning environment. Solid State gradually began to create its own works and performance opportunities. The company now regularly appears at festivals, schools and professional dance venues such as Espace Tangente, the Montreal International Jazz Festival and the Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts. Due to their long-standing collaboration and exchange of talents, Solid State delivers an incomparable performance on stage. The collective has a mission to bring breakdancing to wider audiences, especially young audiences, and while preserving breakdancing’s street origins, to transpose its movement vocabulary into tight choreographic structures. They aim to inspire, entertain and challenge themselves and their audiences with spectacular performances of fresh, energetic dance.

Artistic Director

Solid State is a true collective. All of the members participate in a process of collective creation, with the style and ideas of each dancer being incorporated into the finished work and each member participating as a dancer, choreographer and movement coach. This unique creative process encourages each of the dancers, whose backgrounds range from hip hop, house and breakdance to contemporary, martial arts and gymnastics, to use those elements to develop an individual approach to dance.

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