Harris’s often deeply personal work has explored Black masculinity and systemic racial violence in America.

A Black choreographer and dancer is seated alone in the audience seats in a darkened theater. 

To Harris, hip-hop dance falls under the umbrella of street dance, a way of describing different dances coming out of the community.

In a backstage space at a theater, set pieces including ladders, risers, and scaffolding are scattered.

Music inspires us to take action...it fights against the establishment.

Multiple forms of dance come to life through Harris’s choreography and the performance of dancers.

Harris connects Philadelphia street dance to a rich and complex history of step and tap dance. 

Harris (left) with Puremovement dancers Joshua Culbreath (top), Phillip Cuttino Jr., and Emily Pietruszka.

Lorenzo “Rennie” Harris is the founder of Rennie Harris Puremovement, a dance company bringing street dance to the concert stage.