This class is open to beginning through professional dancers.

Location to be announced: Albany, NY and Zoom

Level 1 Begins Jan 2024.

Deepen Your Understanding to explore what you can do with flamenco, hip-hop, and tap.

Dance Classes

Anytime, Anywhere

A New Dance Class: Original Curriculum created by Omonike Akinyemi, MFA to develop versatility in the professional and pre-professional dancer and movement artist. Weekly sessions meet Monday and Wednesday evenings January through June 2024. Live or Virtually. Upon passing a Final Assessment, Participants Receive a Certificate of Completion and can move onto the next level. (Levels 1-8 focus on varying aspects of each dance form as well as the ability to move between genres).

Level 1 Begins January 2024!

About the Course Creator: Omonike Akinyemi holds an MFA from the University of Southern California and works as a professional dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker.

She is a 2023 NYSDEA Dance Educator Historian Awardee and a Certified Teacher in Dance and Professional Photography (grades 7-12) through the New York State Education Department (NYSED). Omonike danced with Ballet Hispanico of New York and is currently artistic director of Image Quilt Cinema & Dance Theater.

For information on location and time of weekly sessions email us.

The Body Percussive:
Flamenco, Hip-Hop, & Tap Dance

A Bold Approach to Dance Training that Offers Dancers and Educators
an Opportunity to Develop and Strengthen their skills and understanding of percussive dance derived from Africanist movement language.
-- Omonike Akinyemi

This class is open to beginning through professional dancers.

Location to be announced: Albany, NY and Zoom

Deepen Your Understanding to explore what you can do with flamenco, hip-hop, and tap.

The Body Percussive: Flamenco, Hip-Hop, & Tap Dance

A Bold Approach to Dance Training that Offers Dancers and Educators an Opportunity to Develop and Strengthen their skills and understanding of percussive dance derived from Africanist movement language. -- Omonike Akinyemi

Image Quilt Productions, Inc.

The Body Percussive:
Flamenco, Hip-Hop, & Tap Dance

A Bold Approach to Dance Training that Offers Dancers and Educators
an Opportunity to Develop and Strengthen their skills and understanding of percussive dance derived from Africanist movement language.
-- Omonike Akinyemi