The House Dance Project

About

Founded by Byron Cox in 2022, The House Dance Project is an international dance organization based in New York City, assisting the world in participating with the shared House Dance experience. THDP demonstrates sustainable dance culture through the edicts of UDM (underground dance music.) By creating communities and instituting cultural exchange and performance, The House Dance Project continues to democratize dance throughout the world.

With 15 core members, 5 affiliated dance groups in Czech Republic, Japan, New York, Finland, and Sweden, and over 5000 students taught through international workshops series, THDP performs, teaches, lectures, and participates in all aspects of sustainable dance community building.

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Crucial Sessions

Crucial Sessions is the model for a weekly curated dance exchange developed and nurtured by The House Dance Project. By bringing together experienced social and professional dancers with the broader community, both life and art can prosper.

Crucial Sessions began in 2002 in New York City as an extension of The House Dance Project’s goal to allow the dance to have a consistent home for dancers of all ages and experiences. After suing the city for its anti-dancing laws, Crucial Sessions became the international meeting ground for dancers from over 35 countries. The model of Crucial Session is still carried on in NYC by various organizations of dancers holding fast to the truths of dance culture and artistic expression.

Watch a short introduction video to the sessions:

Midsummer Night´s Dream

Midsummer Nights Dream was a dance performance created in collaboration with Danceteam International and the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. The performance brought together street dance and the full Mendelson 21 overture as a part of Finland’s 100th anniversary celebration.

Other international collaboration

The House Dance Project has collaborated across 7 countries for over 20 years with organisations including:

NYC Dance Collective, Nation Dance Educators Association, Brooklyn Arts Council, Fractured Atlas, Hip Hop International, Czech Dance Organization, Finnish Dance Organization, and Street Dance Kemp.

About the founder

Byron Cox is a community activist, dancer, and a pioneer in cataloging house dance culture in video form. His work as a dance advocate includes being a member of a coalition to repeal the NYC cabaret law that prohibited dancing without a license in 2005, a movement that later resulted in The Dance Parade, the biggest annual dance event in NYC to this day. Having left New York in 2011, Byron gained international success, winning several international dance competitions, including World of Dance Belgium in 2013 and World Dance Colosseum in Japan 2010, Battle SM in Finland in 2016, and Baltic Sessions in 2013, 2014, and 2015. His company, The House Dance Project has produced champion competitors, teachers, and given rise to companies around the world. Now back in New York, Byron continues to inspire and educate new generations of house dance practitioners.

THDP is a collaborative partner of Kapybara The Art Collective