Community Dance Class: Hip Hop/Modern with Doug Elkins

Doug Elkins started his dance career as a B-boy with groups including the Royal Rockers and Magnificent Force. He was a member of the Vogue

house,

House of Ninja, and active in New York City's hip hop club scene before finding his way to the post-modern scene where he danced with

artists such as

Yoshika Chuma, Marta Renzi, and Monica Levy and apprenticed with

Bill T. Jones and Elizabeth Streb. A graduate of SUNY/Purchase, he

received his MFA in

Dance from Hollins University/ADF in 2007. Doug is a recipient of

significant choreographic commissions and awards. Most recently he

received an Elliot

Norton Award for Best Choreography (for Fräulein Maria) in Boston

in 2011, and is a 2012 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow.



Doug's class stems from his versatile background and training

incorporating hip hop with modern dance forms. The classes are open to

all ages & levels.