The Cypher: The Story of Hip-Hop through Movement, Music & Media

Podcast: Great Art, Big Ideas · International Festival of Arts & Ideas

Opublikowano: 2026-10-20

In a cypher, nobody owns the floor. You take your turn, you give it back, and the circle is what holds. Recorded live at the New Haven Museum as part of our Queens of the Culture series, this conversation puts three women in that circle — each of whom built the culture in a different medium. Kim D. Holmes is a choreographer and dancer called one of the premiere luminaries of the urban dance movement, with a twenty-year career that runs from the floor to Beyoncé and Missy Elliott to teaching at Alvin Ailey and NYU. Tha...