Hiplet is the newest contemporary dance style, which combines ballet with hip-hop. And it started in Chicago! Two months after a video of the Chicago Multi-Cultural Dance Center (CMDC) hiplet dancers ...

In a new documentary for W, director Danielle Levitt captures the dancers of the Hiplet Dance Company, a dance movement officially founded by Homer Bryant in 2009 that blends ballet on pointe with hip ...

It’s not hip-hop. It’s not ballet. It’s “Hiplet,” and it’s coming to the Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center at Gonzaga on Tuesday. In 2016, the Hiplet Ballerinas went viral after posting a practice ...

When you think of ballet, classical music like Mozart or Beethoven probably come to mind, but what happens when you throw in some hip-hop? You get something called Hiplet. A performance of the cool ...

Homer Hans Bryant created the viral dance style Hiplet, a fusion of classical ballet training, hip-hop, and urban dance. Now, through Hiplet and CMDC, he is encouraging dancers to express themselves ...

Hip Hop + Ballet = Hiplet! Homer Hans Bryant and dancers from the Chicago Multi-Cultural Dance Center created a unique dance style by fusing hip-hop and ballet. "When you're used to classical ballet ...

In 2016, Homer Bryant posted a clip of his dance students wearing ballet shoes and performing to Jason Derulo’s “If It Ain’t Love.” They were practicing a new style he invented called Hiplet ...

Dancer Nia Towe had been keeping a secret for months. Last week, Towe, who was born and raised in Chicago, settled in to watch an episode of reality television with her family and boyfriend. On-screen ...

Hip-hop ballet isn’t something brand new. Anyone who’s watched Save The Last Dance will be well versed in how ballet can be fused with street dance (even if it’s murdered by Julia Styles). But one ...