“We continue to mistake a concatenation of cause and effect for what we deserve. Both positive and negative. Fall back. The design is predestined. Play your part but don’t get cocky nor sullen. Your life has purpose but only insofar of the design the universe has already preordained. Listen and enact your purpose without attaching ego to it. When you detach from the personal satisfaction and feeling that you are owed something, then you’re ready to get to work living. Silence the cacophony of voices in your head begging you to take this all personal. It’s physics. Quantum causality. You are a ..read more

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Safi Thomas (@safithomas) on Mar 23, 2018 at 7:46pm PDT More free services for NYC dancers coming in April!!! Go to http://hdcny.org/pms Pimp My Style® is a dancer-run, pro-bono boutique service for dancers providing professional headshots, dance videos and resumes once a year. PMS® is alleviating the stress so you can compete on equal footing in the industry with quality representation of your personal brand. Make your appointment today: http://hdcny.org/pms Created by: Safi Thomas Work by: AK47 Division Funded by: H+ T ..read more

“I applaud the desire of a dancer to be original. But we cannot sacrifice dance education for a "feeling” of originality. Originality is a deliberate and systematic dismantling of ubiquity. Not a hodgepodge of random, off-beat, unfinished movement with no direction and no vocabulary to teach it.“ -Safi A. Thomas #dance #dancers #dancerlife #dancetheatre #theatre #dancequote #quote #inspiration #instaquote #positivevibes #safithomasquotes #hpluslife #dancerproblems #theatrelife #ballet #hiphoptheatre #hiphopdance #dancers #danceNGO #artsed #danceeducation #dancestudio #educationiskey (at H ..read more

“The dance studio, assembly line, 2 hour class, just got off their first tour or dance show and teaching, body count, format has robbed dancers of the most crucial and empowering aspect of their dance pedagogy, knowledge of self. Dancers prematurely teaching classes but having absolutely no knowledge of the body, kinesiology, biomechanics, kinesthetics, breath, lines, levels, shapes, flexibility or how to explain dance aside from their own pedestrian language diminishes the quality of dance movement and homogenizes dance. Which is why so many dancers look the same now. Carbon copies of a mov ..read more

“I find in dance that we wade through the alluvial filth of poor dance quality and aoristic movement by masquerading it as some difference in epistemic dance principles. When really it’s simply a desire to remain as lazy as possible and not have to put in the work to be grounded in dance foundations before experimenting with our own technique. We have a generation of rule breakers who don’t even know the rules or care why they exist.” -Safi A. Thomas #dance #dancers #dancerlife #dancetheatre #theatre #dancequote #quote #inspiration #instaquote #positivevibes #safithomasquotes #hpluslife #da ..read more

“To be an artist you must embrace both ambiguity and change. If you are unwilling or unable to this, your career as an artist will be short lived or extremely annoying. Both are your choice.” -Safi A. Thomas #dance #dancers #dancerlife #dancetheatre #theatre #dancequote #quote #inspiration #instaquote #positivevibes #safithomasquotes #hpluslife #dancerproblems #theatrelife #ballet #dancengo #hiphoptheatre #hiphopdance #hiphopdancer #moderndance #artsed #hiphoped (at H+ The Hip-Hop Dance Conservatory ..read more

“There must be a purity relative to movement. Movement purity requires honesty. Honest articulation and assessment of movement informs its authenticity. It’s not about "feeling” honest as most dancers think, but more about being empirically reflective and being truthful in your self assessment in order to effectuate positive change within your limbic system. This leads to individual growth as a dancer. Which then allows you to lead the charge as a vanguard of truth within our art-form. Not through words alone, but through action. Your very presence within the art-form creates an aura of trut ..read more

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Safi Thomas (@safithomas) on Oct 24, 2017 at 4:26pm PDT Women expressing themselves freely. ❤ #blackgirlsrock #blackgirlmagic #dance #dancers #dancerlife #dancetheatre #theatre #inspiration #positivevibes #hpluslife #dancerproblems #theatrelife #ballet #danceNGO #hhiphopdancers #artsed #hiphoptheatre #hiphoped #nycdancers (at Dumbo, Brooklyn Bridge Water Front ..read more

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“The erasure of women in hip-hop dance happens daily. In covert and surreptitious ways. Which then makes it difficult to address. Very few men will admit that a woman taught them. Even fewer will admit that a woman had an equal impact on the art-form. Then women start their own dance organizations to pay homage to each other. Then men say, "That’s unnecessary, but I respect your right to do so. Do you.” These same men say, “I respect women.” Yet how we define respect as men has more to do with symbolic actions we take (like offering a woman a seat on the train or offering to carry a baby str ..read more