Dance Workshops | Education | Hip Hop Dance | Hip Hop Theatre

Robert Hylton is a dance educator with over 30 years of experience teaching various dance styles and workshops nationally and internationally.

ABK Research and Active Bodily Knowledge

ABK Research is available for academic presentations and lectures, alongside movement workshops based on Active Bodily Knowledge.

Active Bodily Knowledge, as a process to explore dance improvisation, can also be applied to the following dance workshops.

Dance Workshops, Classes and Residencies

Available to higher education institutions, schools, and community programmes.

Popping

Popping class based on Electric Boogaloo techniques and styles, alongside waving, tutting and animation with a focus on the foundation of the styles into freestyle techniques and musicality.

Dance History, Future and Critical Thinking

A reflective workshop connected to Robert's academic and creative background that looks at the many histories around hip hop and streetdance through reading related text, video, and archives to evoke critical thinking around images, dialogue and the written analysis of dance, culture, and social-political human experience.

Hip Hop Theatre

Creative workshops for studio-based research or performance built through hip hop and streetdance movement, creative exercises, exchange and investigation for both narrative, abstract and foundational dance theatre practice.

The AfroFuturist Lens - Afro Futurism as Performance

Exploring the intersection of Afrofuturism and Dance as a method for creative process and performance.

Somatic-Based Movement

Workshops emphasise street dance styles and/ or contemporary dance with somatically focused movement, to develop improvisational skill and confidence in solo, group work and performance - exploring weight transitions, stillness, grounded movement, dynamics, musicality, isolation, patterns, and personal movement development, or character and narrative-based movement and performance.

Hip Hop and Streetdance

Popping, Locking, Breaking, Hip Hop and House

All hip hop and street-based dance classes are taught by a team of knowledgeable dancers within each street dance style, focusing first on foundation, then on creative approaches to each street dance style into improvisation and freestyle with an emphasis on confidence in performance and informed practice.

UK Jazzdance

UK Jazzdance is an underground club dance unique to Britain, grown out of the boogie and jazz funk dances of the early to mid-seventies clubs in London and around the UK at the time. From fast-paced, rapid footwork to extended fluid lines, UK Jazzdance tests the boundaries of different kinds of jazz music, from hard bop, Latin even broken beats. The workshop develops through the basic steps of fusion style, bebop style, and northern jazz. Once the basic steps have been built, improvisational methods will be explored around the styles and into personal movement, alongside jam sessions. In turn, video and UK Jazzdance history will be utilised to enhance the learning of the styles.

Mixed Styles

Mixed dance styles classes incorporate hip hop, streetdance styles, contemporary dance or personal movement, exploring the theory of mixed dance styles as a space for personal self-expression rather than dance as a singular fixed form. Music is used as a tool for exploration to enhance musicality, experimentation, movement choices, character, and improvisational concepts.

Skills n Drills

A one-week intensive workshop programme produced by Robert Hylton in professional hip hop dance training, lectures and creative workshops. Skills n Drills is a transferable education residency package, which means we can come to you!

Add-on’s

- CPD: Continued Professional Development

- Mentorship

Please get in touch if you require further information