Rashaad
Rashaad celebrates his craft with preservation and innovation, participating in the global dance community since 2003 with a deep respect to the African diasporic artforms of Strutting, Popping, Hip Hop and Locking.
What’s always been powerful about Rashaad’s artistry is his ability to carry his full story through his movement. This includes his upbringing that’s shaped him and the teachers and mentors that gave him tools to succeed. It’s important for him that everyone’s story lives through him each time you see him dance.
Today he serves the community as Founder/Creative Director of Soulmatic LLC, Story Teller, Educator and Performing Artist. He is celebrated as the first Hip Hop Adjunct Professor at UMBC. Rashaad fulfills his mission to pass on what his elders and ancestors have passed onto him. Using community building, courage and imagination, he’s able to explore the culture through and through as a true soul man, one solo at a time.