Angelica DeLashmette Hurst is a seasoned educator, choreographer, performing artist, director, producer, and community facilitator. She is a hybrid dance artist who is passionate and inspired by Hip-Hop/Street Dance forms and Modern/Contemporary dance forms. She is a practitioner inside of Hip-Hop Culture and aims to bring awareness, education, respect, and appreciation for Black vernacular dance through her teaching practices and pedagogical research. Her further research is located in Western and Afro-Diasporic dance and improvisational practices that are centered in the social moving body – examining how a responsive body is activated in practice and performance. Her work interrogates choreographic structures, cooperative group processes, and she is interested in relational approaches for choreographic development. Her expertise additionally lies in Somatic movement and body reeducation methodologies: Bartenieff Fundamentals and Laban Movement Analysis, dance medicine and injury prevention, kinesiology, and functional anatomy. DeLashmette Hurst is a Certified Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analyst (CLMA) and a Registered Somatic Movement Educator (RSME) since January 2018. DeLashmette Hurst sees dance as a powerful art form that cultivates cooperative creativity and constantly reinforces the significance of meaning-making through the moving, expressive body. It is in her capacity to connect, collaborate and build community with others that dance has had its most profound influence in her life. She is passionate about creating spaces for creative action and loves teaching, mentoring, and working with students and sharing her research in and love for dance. She is graduating with her MFA in Dance from the University of Iowa in December 2020, and is thankful for the extraordinary growth she has had the privilege of journeying through and for the guidance she received under the exceptional faculty in the Department of Dance.