by Tiffany Ashton for The Dance Journal Rennie Harris’s Heaven invites you to a masterfully-crafted and twisted love story, performed by a chorus of disturbingly deviant B-girls and a handful of unsuspecting B-boys. The B-girl ballet was set to Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring”, but mirrored it only in that a sacrifice was made at the [...]
Philadelphia choreographer Lorenzo “Rennie” Harris received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree at the Bates College 144th commencement ceremony on May 30, 2010. Founder and Artistic Director of Rennie Harris Puremovement, Harris was one of five honorary degree recipients this year. Honorands included: Dr. James McCarthy, Harvard professor of biological oceanography; Jane Pauley, veteran [...]
Rennie Harris the Founder/Artistic Director of Rennie Harris Puremovement has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2010 in recognition of his work as a hip hop choreographer. In 1992, North Philadelphia native Rennie Harris founded Puremovement with the vision for sharing an appreciation for diversity as well as being dedicated to preserving and disseminating hip-hop [...]
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