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Mosaic Soul is the dance style, Afro Mosaic Soul is the collective.
Mosaic Soul is the next evolution of dance. The newest form of
African American social dance has risen from the underground. It
carries the genetic traits of its forbears: African dance, Latin
dance, tap, modern, popping & locking, break dancing (b-boying), hip
hop, house dance, lofting and capoiera to name a few. As each
movement has a parent in jazz, gospel, disco and R&B, it left us the
offspring of house music. When the love of dancing to soulful house
music expanded, this formation occurred. The boundaries of how one
typically dances to soul was broken. We freed our rhythmic instincts
creating a style we coined Mosaic Soul. The style, like water, can
conform to the shape of any rhythm while retaining it's essential
properties. We dance to music of all genres, extracting the soul
that is inherent in the rhythm. Our nature is similar to the
eclectic funk of vintage Soul Train reruns. We use our body as a
musical instrument and create the balance between freestyle, improv
and choreography. Now imagine this: friends with like minds &
spirits come together as dancers. Some trained and some untrained.
They ditch their rhythmic normalcy and bend rules as they see fit.
Like the Super Friends, members (coming from all over) battle stress
and convention in the underground dance scene (an environment where
all races and cultures gather to move uninhibitedly to eclectic
tunes from all over the world). The music is a mere blank canvas and
the movements are strokes of a brush. When the music stops, a
masterpiece is formed. . . |
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