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CULTURAL ADVISORS
Our instructors are called Cultural Advisors. They are the professionals in the Street and Club Dance community and culture.
Beasty
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Beasty, aka Tomoe Carr is a young, determined, passionate, and outgoing artist. She started her dance training in Japan at Next Generation Dance Studio under the tutelage of Cebo Carr. Tomoe spent 10-years training in styles such as Hip Hop, House, Waacking, Locking, Popping, Modern, Ballet, Jazz, and Breaking. Tomoe was the first graduate of the street dance program KiNEXtionS™️ from Next Generation New York Studios Japan. Returning to New York in 2014, she expanded her knowledge of Ballet, Modern, and Feminine Vogue to enhance her training for commercial work. KiNEXtionS™️, fueled Tomoe’s need to develop deeper into street style artforms and so, she gained her freestyle training with pioneer dancers Hurrikane Alain, Robert Bynes, E solo, ChryBaby Cozie, Rascal Randi, and Tatiana Desardouin.
During her Junior and Senior years of High School, Tomoe applied to The National Foundation for the advancement of Artists otherwise known as YoungArts. In 2019, She was chosen as an Honorable mention, where she was immersed in a week long training and a performance intensive. Her hard work was noticed by the board of YoungArts and in 2020 she was chosen to be a finalist in Miami, where she showed her versatility in freestyle .Tomoe graduated from Jacob’s Pillow street and club dance program in 2020, which was led by two legends, Archie Burnett and Ephrat Asherie.
Tomoe is building her portfolio by working with accomplished street dance professionals such as Michele Byrd-McPhee, who is the creator of Ladies Of HipHop Festival. This year, Tomoe has had the opportunity to join Ladies of Hip Hop on their Black Dancing Bodies Project at the Jacob Pillow Lab residency, Works and Process residency at Bethany, and the experience to perform at the Guggenheim. She has had grand opportunities with upcoming artists such as Meg Donnelly on Disney’s “Next Big Thing,” Alicia Keys and Swae Lee’s VMA performance, Jidenna’s music video “Tribe” as a featured dancer and Chris Reed, Kenan Thompson, Ariana DeBose “All On Me” Music Video Skit on SNL. Tomoe has been active in the dance battle scenes for about 7 years around the country, and is now referred to as “Beasty.” She has won titles in battle scenes such as the Broadway Dance Center All Styles Battle in 2018, Ladies Of Hip Hop Festival 2019 (Hip Hop category), and RedBull Dance Your Style Boston Qualifiers, 2021.
Tomoe is also grounded in community focused work creating a safe space for dancers in New York City. Working with NY Pops Up, Tomoe has curated block parties, and flash mobs. NY Pops Up is a festival that provides events for the New York City Locals. As for her performance aspect, she has had the opportunity to work with Torya Beards and Ayodele Casel to be in shows for the community of New York. Tomoe performed at Lincoln Center's 2021 Juneteenth Celebration as well as Little Island’s “They Got Next” performance, and showcased her talent to perform as a Freestyler. She is actively teaching to the kids and hosting dance sessions for adults in her ongoing programs with the Peridance center. On top of working with Village Culture Collective (Ladies of Hip-Hop, Next Generation aka NXGN, I Love My Hood, and Dynamic Rockers) to provide free classes for the public.
This year she has been traveling the country not only to battle or do commercial work but to obtain new information from various dancers and engage in different cultures. She is thriving to become a helpful advocate for the dance community and the non dance community in hopes of bringing more awareness to the industry.
Cebo
Cebo
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Cebo is the president of Next Generation NYC, LLC. He has spent his life trying to build the professional structure within the street club dance culture to help develop an understanding of how the heritage of the culture is interwoven with the people of its creation. To fully understand the culture you must know its people to understand the importance and relevance of their contributions.
Next Generation NYC, has celebrated 21 years of supporting the street club culture. Next Generation New York Studios is celebrating its sixteenth anniversary of service to the street club dance community of Okayama, Japan. NXGN is the co-production for the international street dance battle Step Ya Game Up New York also now has preliminaries in two countries China and Japan.
Cebo went to school for architectural design in his second year of studies, life and dance took precedents. As a husband and father of four girls, he has dedicated his life to empowering his ladies to follow their dreams and to have pride in their street club dance heritage. He joined the international organization The Ladies of Hip Hop Festival as a board member. He is the first international house dance winner solidifying his placement in the dance crew Dance Fusion and MopTop Family. He is currently the movement specialist for GoNoodle's Blazer Fresh, which is an app used by schools across the nation for teaching the youth school subject matter through dance. He is serving as the interim Artistic Director for Its Showtime NYC. A program of Dancing In The Streets funded by the state of New York to allow under-resourced street club dance performers to further their professional growth with on the job paid training. Cebo also continues to teach and perform while maintaining his responsibilities as the president of Next Generation NYC, LLC, and spreading the culture through Music, Feeling, and Dance!
coco
Coco
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Born in Japan, Cocoro belongs to a world renowned street dance family. Cocoro started her dance training in Japan at Next Generation Dance Studio learning styles such as Hip Hop, House, Waacking and more. She is a graduate of the street dance program KiNEXtions™️ from NXGN Studios and the youngest member of the Ladies of Hip-Hop Dance Collective. She’s performed at many events including the Nets Basketball game(iRep), Step Ya Game Up, Redbull Dance your style, and Love is Love to name a few. She is a artistic, open-minded, and a knowledgeable dancer.
Eskills
Eskillz
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Elijah Carr also known as Eskilllz , has been dancing for 11 years in multiple styles such as house, hip-hop and Jersey club - as well as a painter and movement artist. Born in Jersey, Eskilllz affiliation with the Jersey club culture runs deep ,as it is his livelihood and main focus of elevating the dance movement. The creator of ‘SKILLLZ HOUSE’ invites a more intricate method of teaching the jersey club dance style and it’s foundations. While also branching out connections outside of the state New Jersey , he has well strong connections to big jersey scenes and big jersey artists alike. Eskilllz is ready to bring the rooted community to you.
Miyabi
Miyabi
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Miyabi has a full background in street dance and is trained in many different styles such as Hip Hop, House, Waacking, and vogue. She has danced with icons such as Janet Jackson and Elton John to name a few. Miyabi is now spreading the art of street dance through performing and educating with Ladies of Hip Hop and Next Generation NYC.
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