Raphael Xavier: Point of Interest
Raphael Xavier
Audience Advisory: Performance includes haze.
Event Attributes
A self-taught hip-hop dancer and breaking artist, Raphael Xavier has forged an exceptional approach to improvisation-based performance. Drawing from his background as a hip-hop magazine photographer and musician, Xavier confounds and expands the boundaries of dance. Point of Interest, a minimalistic hip-hop piece offering audiences multiple perspectives on the inner workings of dance, crackles with his signature bravado and high-energy physicality.
“I want to discover, break and change things. By definition, ‘breaking’ means to separate into pieces … its success is in taking it apart – if I can take this apart, I have succeeded in Breaking.” – Raphael Xavier
Funded in part by Choreographers on Campus at Lafayette College, an initiative generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Raphael Xavier: Point of Interest