February 2012
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“Our momentary ineptitude at traversing a complex strategical situation causes us...”
–  Safi A. Thomas Artistic Director H+ | The Hip-Hop Dance Conservatory H+ | Guided By Science. Powered By Soul.®
Feb 25th
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“I was remembering what men were like as I was growing up. Each believing that we...”
–  Safi A. Thomas Artistic Director H+ | The Hip-Hop Dance Conservatory H+ | Guided By Science. Powered By Soul.®
Feb 22nd
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“It is important for us to not be dismissive of any written words whether we...”
–  Safi A. Thomas Artistic Director H+ | The Hip-Hop Dance Conservatory H+ | Guided By Science. Powered By Soul.®
Feb 16th
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“Instead of rationing, sequestering or divvying our love, we must gain a better...”
–  Safi A. Thomas Artistic Director H+ | The Hip-Hop Dance Conservatory H+ | Guided By Science. Powered By Soul.®
Feb 14th
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True Love : Happy Valentine's Day!
There is a puerility to how we conceptualize love. We section it up into trivial categories in an effort to oversimplify a very complex human emotion. We then react to our perceived infractions on our limited understanding of love.  Today, there are millions of people sitting around thinking there’s something wrong with them because they don’t have a “partner” on...
Feb 14th
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January 2012
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“What many dancers of this generation —who fancy themselves as...”
–  Safi A. Thomas   Artistic Director The Hip-Hop Dance Conservatory H+ | Guided By Science. Powered By Soul.®
Jan 30th
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“The hip-hop industry is the deliberate and systematic perpetuation of...”
– Safi A. Thomas Artistic Director The Hip-Hop Dance Conservatory H+ | Guided By Science. Powered By Soul.®
Jan 27th
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“There is a sense of culpability that comes with being a woman and an artist. You...”
–  Safi A. Thomas Artistic Director The Hip-Hop Dance Conservatory H+ | Guided By Science. Powered By Soul.®
Jan 24th
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“Poor technique and neuromuscular control during core activating processes...”
–  Safi A. Thomas Artistic Director The Hip-Hop Dance Conservatory H+ | Guided By Science. Powered By Soul.®
Jan 19th
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The Primrose Path to Sexual Pleasure
No one is responsible for our sexual fulfillment. It is not their job, role or responsibility to satisfy us. Sexual pleasure —akin to happiness— is an internal machination with an external reward.  If we are uneasy about our own sexual expression then we will have difficulties gaining satisfaction. If we are emotionally immature then we look at coitus as an action to be executed...
Jan 19th
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A Message to All Men and Women
There are no “things that men say” or “things that women say.” There are things that “people” say, and it is our limited understanding of gender and sexuality that then labels it in accordance with their gender. We are so unwilling to drop our labels. It soothes our inner ego to place a label on things we are ignorant of. Once we label it we no longer feel...
Jan 17th
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“To the next generation of hip-hop dancers I say this, “Be the leaders that the...”
–  Safi A. Thomas Artistic Director The Hip-Hop Dance Conservatory H+ | Guided By Science. Powered By Soul.®
Jan 14th
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“I believe we must teach dancers to be critical and comprehensive thinkers. To...”
–  Safi A. Thomas Artistic Director The Hip-Hop Dance Conservatory H+ | Guided By Science. Powered By Soul.®
Jan 14th
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“I believe that in our art-form there are many who fit the “counter-productive...”
– Safi A. Thomas Artistic Director The Hip-Hop Dance Conservatory H+ | Guided By Science. Powered By Soul.®
Jan 14th
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“To be a mentor, we must drop our egocentrism and engage from a place of...”
– Safi A. Thomas Artistic Director The Hip-Hop Dance Conservatory H+ | Guided By Science. Powered By Soul.®
Jan 14th
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“An opinion is not valid just because we hold one. It must be vetted through...”
– Safi A. Thomas Artistic Director The Hip-Hop Dance Conservatory H+ | Guided By Science. Powered By Soul.®
Jan 13th
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“The average human has 3000 thoughts a day. The average dancer has over 3x that...”
– Safi A. Thomas Artistic Director The Hip-Hop Dance Conservatory H+ | Guided By Science. Powered By Soul.®
Jan 12th
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Happy New Year Dancers!
The new year is often symbolic for people as a point of change. This perceived change though is often fleeting. People, due to habitual tendency, return to the behavior patterns of the year prior that kept them from advancing. Repeating the cycle of behavior that drove them to seek a resolution for the new year in the first place. As dancers, you are all seeking to be better in your craft and...
Jan 11th
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“I think it’s important to be able to seize and recognize lucrative...”
– Safi A. Thomas Artistic Director The Hip-Hop Dance Conservatory H+ | Guided By Science. Powered By Soul.®
Jan 10th
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“As choreographers, our work should be like a beautiful melody that speaks to the...”
– Safi A. Thomas Artistic Director The Hip-Hop Dance Conservatory
Jan 1st
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“My advice to all for the New Year: Let every act and word and deed be framed as...”
– Safi A. Thomas Artistic Director The Hip-Hop Dance Conservatory
Jan 1st
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December 2011
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“Those who profit from the current state of the dance community regard the...”
– Safi A. Thomas Artistic Director The Hip-Hop Dance Conservatory
Dec 31st
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“The cabal of paleolithic ideologues in many universities continue to forfeit...”
– Safi A. Thomas Artistic Director The Hip-Hop Dance Conservatory
Dec 31st
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“I do my best to convey to dancers via multiple iterations that integrity,...”
– Safi A. Thomas Artistic Director The Hip-Hop Dance Conservatory
Dec 31st
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“Currently hip-hop dance’s “history” is presented by most as a...”
– Safi A. Thomas Artistic Director The Hip-Hop Dance Conservatory
Dec 31st
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“The current ethos of many commercial dance choreographers creates stagnancy...”
– Safi A. Thomas Artistic Director The Hip-Hop Dance Conservatory
Dec 30th
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“I sincerely hope that this is not the “new way that dance will be...”
– Safi A. Thomas Artistic Director The Hip-Hop Dance Consevatory
Dec 30th
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“Classical dance is the root of all dance.” People throw this...”
– Safi A. Thomas Artistic Director The Hip-Hop Dance Conservatory
Dec 30th
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“I would be more than willing to create a workshop for dance studio...”
– Safi A. Thomas Artistic Director The Hip-Hop Dance Conservatory
Dec 29th
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“You cannot apply stringent guidelines or expectations to fluid situations. It...”
– Safi A. Thomas Artistic Director The Hip-Hop Dance Conservatory
Dec 29th
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“So it’s almost two years later and I’m still brushing up on...”
– Safi A. Thomas Artistic Director The Hip-Hop Dance Conservatory Taken from his Facebook status update 12-28-11
Dec 29th
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“As people, we often like statements or quotations which placate our biases or...”
– Safi A. Thomas Artistic Director The Hip-Hop Dance Conservatory
Dec 29th
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“I am diligently working on aiming tachyon particles through an inverted...”
– Safi A. Thomas Artistic Director The Hip-Hop Dance Conservatory Taken from a lecture he gave in 2009.
Dec 29th
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“We need a new generation of dancers who have a care and concern for the...”
– Safi A. Thomas
Dec 28th
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“Reading comprehension is a dying art. We are so accustomed to people telling us...”
– Safi A. Thomas Artistic Director The Hip-Hop Dance Conservatory
Dec 28th
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“Every day can be used to celebrate your family and friends! Celebrate the love,...”
– Safi A. Thomas Artistic Director The Hip-Hop Dance Conservatory
Dec 25th
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“As choreographers if we have ‘children’ or not, we are still the...”
– Safi A. Thomas Artistic Director The Hip-Hop Dance Conservatory
Dec 24th
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“When pursuing our art, all we have is risk. It’s a risk to put our total...”
– Safi A. Thomas
Dec 23rd
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“My battle is not so much with the dance community as it is with the human...”
– Safi A. Thomas
Dec 23rd
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“The status of the messenger does not determine the validity of the words. It is...”
– Safi A. Thomas Artistic Director The Hip-Hop Dance Conservatory
Dec 22nd
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“The problem with many dancers today is not that they don’t have opinions,...”
– Safi A. Thomas Artistic Director The Hip-Hop Dance Conservatory
Dec 22nd
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“A little over 40 years ago, we were granted a gift from God. That gift was the...”
– Safi A. Thomas Artistic Director The Hip-Hop Dance Conservatory From a Cultural & Social Anthropology class November 2009.
Dec 22nd
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“Hip-Hop Dance education if executed in earnest is often a succession of...”
– Safi A. Thomas Artistic Director The Hip-Hop Dance Conservatory
Dec 22nd
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“Many dance studios nationwide have depreciated the value of dance education in...”
– Safi A. Thomas Artistic Director The Hip-Hop Dance Conservatory
Dec 21st
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“A liberating dance education consists in acts of cognition, not the transferral...”
– Safi A. Thomas Artistic Director The Hip-Hop Dance Conservatory
Dec 21st
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“As dance teachers we cannot compromise; our class either has integrity or it...”
– Safi A. Thomas Artistic Director The Hip-Hop Dance Conservatory
Dec 21st
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“Choreographers of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that...”
– Safi A. Thomas Artistic Director The Hip-Hop Dance Conservatory
Dec 21st
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“Hip-Hop Dance harbors two kinds of men: those who thought and never did, and...”
– Safi A. Thomas Artistic Director The Hip-Hop Dance Conservatory
Dec 20th
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“Those of us who are inclined to think of ourselves as teachers must be cognizant...”
– Safi A. Thomas Artistic Director The Hip-Hop Dance Conservatory
Dec 20th
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“I see all too often that choreographers and dancers simply do not respect others...”
– Safi A. Thomas Artistic Director The Hip-Hop Dance Conservatory
Dec 20th
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