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"Through the lights cameras and action, glamour glitters and gold I unfold the scroll plant seeds to stampede the globe"
-Nas
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Baton Rouge Hops LLC is a multidisciplinary arts and education program incorporating elements of visual art, performance theater, history, music, and dance for our hip-hop festivals. Indulge the hip hop in you on mulitiple levels...dj battles, graffiti art, fashion, theater...BR Hops aims to engage and celebrate all mediums of the hip hop experience.
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About Our Hip-Hop Festivals
Join our celebration of music and culture and come delight in all things hip hop. Baton Rouge Hops provides an arena where the arts and hip hop community can connect. Hops aims to showcase the many elements of hip hop in the manner that they deserve. In all that we produce we strive to aid in the cultivation and preservation of hip hop culture. Our festivals represent the beauty, positivity and movement of hip hop as a cultural phenomena and monumental American art form.
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About Our Founder
Roxi Anica Victorian, actress, dancer, writer and performing arts educator is a native of Washington, DC. She is delighted to have moved recently to Baton Rouge, LA with her husband and young son. She is a graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts, and holds a BFA in Theater and Dance from Howard University. Roxi has studied ballet at the International School of Ballet in Cannes, France, and was a distinguished student of Shakespeare at the British Academy of Dramatic Arts at Oxford University. In addition to her dance and theater studies, she is an accomplished actress of the stage, having performed in New York, Washington DC, Philadelphia, and San Francisco. She has taught theater and dance at Prince Georges Community College, and has served as guest choreographer and instructor at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. She has also worked in production management for HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, and MTV Networks in New York City. She most recently served as Artistic Director of Ballet Petite Youth Performing Arts School in Bethesda, MD. Roxi has extensive Hip Hop training and is the former festival coordinator of the annual DC Hip Hop Theater Festival. She is currently a ballet, musical theater and hip hop instructor at Main Street Dance in Hammond, LA,(named to the top 50 studio’s by the Dancers Federation), and was recently named Director of Dance at Episcopal High School in Baton Rouge. She is a company member in Of Moving Colors Modern Dance Company in Baton Rouge, LA. Roxi is the recipient of the Young Artist Grant from the DC Commission on Arts and Humanities, the Skylar Scholar Award, for outstanding academic achievement and community service, from the Bethune Debois Foundation and the Thomas C. Byrdie and the Smith Arts Award for exemplary achievement as a student of dance. Her passions in life are teaching and performing. She is devoted to sharing the freedoms of artistic expression with young children, and delights in the power of one’s individual imagination. As a Hip Hop Theater Artist and educator, she is committed to the growing genre and hopes to continue to aid in its national exposure and legitimacy in the world of theater.
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