Illadelph remains the longest continually run Hip Hop festival dedicated to the evolution of Hip Hop music and dance, featuring the most electrifying innovators and pioneers of Hip Hop movement. Celebrating over 11 consecutive years, the 2010 Illadelph Legends Festival (Illadelph) returns to Philadelphia from July 26 through August 1 in the state-of-the-art facilities at [...]

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 [...]

By Lindsay Warner published in The Bulletin Rennie Harris and his dance company, Puremovement, have done wonders for the reputation of hip-hop dance. As a choreographer, he has produced hip-hop works on some of the most prestigious stages in Philadelphia and around the world, chipping away at the stigma associated with the traditionally informal, urban-based [...]

WHYY radio features Rennie Harris on Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane, broadcast on February 12, 2009. North Philadelphia native, hip hop dancer and choreographer, RENNIE HARRIS, comes in to talk about his work, “100 Naked Locks,” that will premiering at the Perelman Theater in the Kimmel Center Friday, February 20th. Interview question posed by Steven [...]

Hold onto your hats people! Philly’s own internationally acclaimed dance troupe, Rennie Harris Puremovement (RHPM) unleashes a fresh bag of kickin’ tricks. Inspired by the futuristic vistas of the sci-fi genre, 100 Naked Locks does for dance what Kool Keith did for hip-hop music and what Octavia Butler’s Kindred did for the Slave Narrative. Designed [...]