Darrius Strong\u00a0is a Twin Cities based dancer, choreographer, and instructor. His dance company,\u00a0STRONGmovement\u00a0uses the universal language of dance, blending styles such as Hip hop, Ballet, Modern, and West African to tell stories related to society and humanity. Strong is a graduate of University of Minnesota (BFA 2015) and is currently faculty at\u00a0University of Minnesota Twin Cities,\u00a0Macalester College, St. Paul Conservatory Performing Arts High School and the\u00a0TU Dance Center\u00a0where he focuses on teaching dancers how to connect their identity to movement.<\/p>\n
Using his passion for youth and bringing communities together,\u00a0Strong\u00a0performs and speaks as a guest artist in schools across Minnesota including the\u00a0Anoka Middle School for the Performing Arts\u00a0and as a director of the hip-hop program at\u00a0Eleve Performing Arts Center. His creative work has been chosen for the\u00a0Walker Art Center\u2019s Choreographers Evening, and\u00a0Rhythmically Speaking. He was featured in the\u00a02015 New Griots Festival\u00a0as well as an American Standard Billboard advertisement in NYC Time Square in 2016. Strong has created works for Threads Dance Project, Flying Foot Forum, Alternative Motion Projects, and James Sewell Ballet.Darrius Strong\u00a0is a grateful recipient of a\u00a02017 Momentum New Works Award\u00a0and\u00a02019 Jerome Hill Fellowship. You can find more information about Darrius and his dance company STRONGmovement at\u00a0www.strong-movement.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":344,"featured_media":1698,"template":"","class_list":["post-1696","profile","type-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/344"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4317,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1696\/revisions\/4317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}