Brooklyn dancer Brian Henry says discovering the street-dance style krumping provided him an alternative to a life of street violence. 'It was better than everything else that I felt like my community, my family, everything around me had to offer me.'
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“I feel what we share is this thing where human expression, especially art making, is an instinct of survival,” Miller said. “That's what I see when I see his work. And that's what I feel about why I make work.”Henry, now 34, was born and raised in Bed-Stuy. He says discovering a video of krumping creators Ceasare “Tight Eyez” Willis and Jo’Artis “Big Mijo” Ratti in 2004 saved him from possibly living a life filled with gang violence.
“No different than a child playing a video game all night and they forget what time it was, I've just been dancing for so long it wasn't all night, it was all year," Henry said. "Then it's two years, three years, four years. It was kind of easy, because it was better than everything else that I felt like my community, my family, everything around me had to offer me.”
With “song,” Henry says, he got to be more involved: Miller provided a concept, but both dancers brought ideas about execution to the table.
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