Hip Hop Chair and Line Dance for Seniors!

2025 South Hadley Cultural Council Grant Recipient. Elders do a complete chair, dance, warm-up and hip hop class that begins and ends in the chairs. We travel through time on the “Soul Train” and chair dance to clean cut hip hop and R & B songs. We use creative props such as smiley faces and the African maracas to help make our soul train journey come to life. Senior participants will leave feeling more limber.

About the Instructor:

Rondae Drafts is the former Director of a hip hop dance company in Massachusetts. Professor Drafts has also instructed hip hop dance at MIT where one of the students was wheelchair bound. This was one of the inspirations for this class. The current Executive Director of MUSIC Dance.edu, Rondae is a Ph.D.abd researching hip hop's impact on contemporary music. She is a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania native, that graduated from The Pennsylvania State University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Speech Communication, she later moved o Massachusetts and received a Masters Degree in Education from Cambridge College.