Bruk Up (“broken” in Jamaican patois) is a dance genre that emerged out of Brooklyn in the mid 1990s that blends Hip Hop Popping with Jamaican Dancehall. He is a street dance innovator with over 25 years of experience, and an original member of the legendary Bruk Up crew, Bed-Stuy Veterans (BSV). , Esquilin was born in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn (1984), of Cuban and Puerto Rican descent. Petra spends her time between New York and Savannah, where she is an Assistant Professor of African and African-American Art History at the Savannah College of Art and Design.Īlbert Esquilin aka “The Ghost of New York”-DANCERīruk Up, Dancehall, Freeform Possession, Hip Hop Her award-winning, experimental Afro-cosmic short film, ON MY MIND (Blue Note Records), premiered with Afropunk in 2020. Preston and Frank Stewart, and Sound of Light, a book of music photography and conversations. Petra is currently a Scholar-in-Residence at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York revising her award-winning doctoral thesis, Rumba: A Philosophy of Motion, into a book manuscript (Duke University Press) and finishing two more books: Clock of the Earth, B&W photographs taken on the African continent co-authored by George N. As researcher, photographer, and filmmaker, she has worked in west and north Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States.
She received her doctorate from Yale University (2010) specializing in the Arts of Africa and its Diaspora.
, Petra Richterová was born in Prague, Czech Republic (1978).
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