LAYERHYTHM

Get moving in the New Year with a play-based jam session of freestyle live music, dance, and audience interaction that will get you off your feet. Celebrating the vibrancy of street and club dance cultures, LayeRhythm, led by Mai Lê Hô, weaves singular improvisations by musicians, dancers, and emcees, with the audience, captivating the young and old, from theater to clubgoers by embodying the continuum of concert and social dance.

"[LayeRhythm is a] brew of partying and performing that unfolds as a series of interactive sessions in which suggestions from the crowd beget songs and steps. Imagine an improv comedy show where dancing, not laughs, is the currency. Then imagine a musicians’ jam session where the band is compelled to keep the dancers’ pace instead of the other way around... [W]hat’s distinct about LayeRhythm is the way it bridges the two groups with crowd participation" (The New York Times).

LayeRhythm’s residency is a partnership between ArtYard and Works & Process’ LaunchPAD program. LayeRhythm will go straight from ArtYard to the Works & Process Underground Uptown Dance Festival to headline the Guggenheim Rotunda.

LayeRhythm Productions, Inc. (LPI) highlights freestyle dance and music voices under-recognized in the mainstream performing arts landscape while providing entertainment, building community through play, educating audiences in cultural history, preserving the legacy of street and club dance forms, transforming individuals’ relationship to music and dance, and supporting emotional and social well-being. LayeRhythm is dedicated to risk-taking improvisation and interactive audience engagement through performances and educational events.

Since 2015, LayeRhythm (LR), led by Founder/Artistic Director Mai Lê Hô, has offered NYC monthly interactive, improvisational street/club dance and music events at Meridian 23, Nublu, 275ParkBK, as well as performances at venues/festivals such as Jacob’s Pillow, Lincoln Center, and many others.

Featuring a rotating cast of top-tier local and international street/club dancers, emcees, singers, and musicians, the LR experimental platform layers extemporaneous collaborations of artists working from a diverse cultural palette — hip hop, funk, soul, house music, and popping, locking, waacking, Detroit jit, Chicago footwork, krump, flexN, breaking, voguing, litefeet, and house dance styles.

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