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PERIDANCE FACULTY

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Korie Genius

Korie Genius

Dancehall

BIOGRAPHY

Korie Genius was born in Kingston, Jamaica and grew up in
Brooklyn, NY. He has studied various styles of hip hop, and
specializes in Dancehall as well as styles like Flexing, Krumping
and Popping. Korie is always open to new styles and new ideas.
He loves to broaden his visions of dance every day by taking
classes and train with the best choreographers in the city.
He has been performing for over a decade in various venues all
around America.
Korie has been seen on the CBS morning show performing with
reggae artist Mr.Vegas (2010), also live on (The Tonight Show
Starring Jimmy Fallon) performing with Skip Marley & H.E.R.
(2020) and shows in Orlando Florida with well-known Reggae
Dancehall artist Mr.Lexx in (2010). He has choreographed and
danced in music videos for Nikhil P. Yerawadekar & Low Mentality
“Run Fast” (2013) “Chi-ching” by Chairlift (2015) principal dancer
in “Made For Now” by Janet Jackson & Daddy Yankee (2017) .
Korie has performed at numerous shows around the tristate area
such as Sirens After Dark by Rhapsody James, Sybarite
Collective and Carnival.
Korie has been teaching children and adults for many years
throughout the world, has travel to places like Japan, Paris, Italy,
Switzerland, and Columbia, to name a few. He is currently
teaching at New York’s most prestige dance schools such as
Broadway Dance Center, Peridance Capezio Center. He makes
his classes fun and positive, allowing everyone to bring out their
personalities into their dance.
Korie is a growing artist that always strives for the best. His goal
is to pass on his passion and unique style as well as making an
impact with his dancing and choreographies.

CLASS DESCRIPTION

This class will offer an introduction to the study of the popular Caribbean dance called Dancehall. Highlights of the course will include my warm up where students will get initiated through various dancehall steps eg. Bogle, Wackey dip, peppa seed moves that are consistently called upon to create new dances. This will help them become better acquainted with different style of the dance discipline leading them in to smooth transition to more technical and complex moves to be learned throughout the class.






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