House Dance International - Organizers

Organizers

• Santiago Freeman (Creator / Executive Director). Santiago has been a freestyle House Dancer for more than twenty years, growing up in Chicago amidst the house music explosion of the mid-1980s. He is currently the host of monthly House Dance event, Brooklyn Mecca, now in its fourth year and is the founding director of Dance Warrior Project, a theatrical house dance company recently described by the New York Times as “graceful…strong…and engaging.” www.myspace.com/dancewarriorproject. Santiago is also a filmmaker, writer, designer, DJ/producer and attorney.

• REDness (Co-Producer). As a fixture in New York’s underground dance music scene since the late-1980s RED has promoted various parties, working with an extensive list of DJs including Louie Vega, Francois K., Danny Krivit and Joe Claussel. She is the founding coordinator of the CHMW Freestyle Dance-Off competition, which completed its second year at the Winter Music Conference in Miami, as well as co-host of the popular weekly House Dance event, Soulgasm NYC. REDness parties & events