RAPHAEL XAVIER

DANCE | PHILADELPHIA,PA

Originally from Wilmington, Delaware, Raphael Xavier is an award-winning artist and alumnus of the world renowned Hip Hop dance company, Rennie Harris Puremovement. He is a 2013 Pew Fellow, 2014 MacDowell Fellow,  2016 Guggenheim Fellow and 2016 United States Artist Fellow as well as many others. Xavier has been working in a variety of fields over the course of his career including photography, visual arts, filmmaking and music production. 

 A self-taught Hip Hop dancer and Breaking practitioner since 1983, Xavier continues to learn and recreate new ways to expand the vocabulary of the dance form through constant research of the culture, performance, practice and by staying present in the community.