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Can you believe it has only been two years? We started this amazing journey with 200 amazing movers (mostly under 18), we now have over 2200 active monthly movers of all ages and backgrounds. From Free Dance Day to Zombie short films, new classes to guest teachers, BreakOut evolves day by day. It is now time for the next step - time to grow. 

WE are asking your help to grow BreakOut. Bigger studios, huge improvements and a continued push towards the future of movement! It is time and we are ready. Through BreakOut's success, private investors and this website, we plan on building one the most incredible movement facilities in the country! Imagine the possibilities.


Funds raised from this site will be broken down as follows:


50% of funds raised will be used for building costs and transition:
Larger studios, AC system, flooring, improved sound and tech, expanded lobby and so much more. Transition from our current structure to our new facility will be smooth because you have helped us!


30% Growing the Life Moves brand...
Continuing to build our amazing brand by pushing the future of movement. Production studio equipment, general tech and computer equipment, online and in house retail and so much more.
Discover our brand:
We have an amazing community built online - covering all the major social media platforms.
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/BreakOut-Studios/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/BreakOutStudios
Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/breakoutstudios/
Instagram: @BreakOutStudios
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/BreakOut4thAve
LifeMoves Blog: http://lifemovesblog.blogspot.com/
Life Moves eJournal: http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=79ef0f6752f88e889d1449daa&id=0bc6f07ea0

20% Giving back to the future of BreakOut - the BreakOut Youth Company!
Funds to help our youth company with their yearly expenses... Choreography, travel, costumes, guest choreography and so much more. These dancers are some of the most hard working and talented kiddos on the planet! Help these amazing young movers achieve their dreams.


Beyond the reward levels below we do offer investment and partnership options. If interested please contact us at info@breakouton4th.com.


PLEASE share this page. Our goal is to surpass our $100,000 goal... let's see if we can do it.


BreakOut has come so far because of you and your support. Once again we reach out to you, help us take BreakOut to the next level. We can do it together. Standing tall in the present we look towards a very bright future.


Remember,
Life Moves...Move With It™

"The Wholly Family" - 20 Minute Short Film by Terry Gilliam

A crowded street in Naples city center, plenty of shops selling presepi. A wealthy American couple and Jake, their 10 years-old child, try to push their way through the crowd. While husband and wife argue which street to take, the boy is unwillingly separated from them.

Watch the preview or rent the film at Terry Gilliam's official website!

Atelier Olschinsky

Atelier Olschinsky, founded in 2002 is a small creative studio based in Vienna, Austria. Peter Olschinsky and Verena Weiss are operating in various fields such as graphic design, illustration, photography and art direction.

Wayne McGregor: On Misbehaving Beautifully

Wayne McGregor CBE is a British choreographer of contemporary modern dance. His work is highly distinctive in its vocabulary of movement, for its integration of dance with film and visual art, and for his active interest and incorporation of computer technology and biological science. He is the Artistic Director of Wayne McGregor Random Dance, Resident Company at Sadler's Wells Theatre in London; the Resident Choreographer of The Royal Ballet, appointed 2006; and the government’s first Youth Dance Champion, appointed 2008. In 2004 McGregor was a Research Fellow in the Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge.

McGregor is a frequent creator of new work for La Scala Theatre Ballet of Milan; Paris Opera Ballet; Nederlands Dans Theatre of La Hague; San Francisco Ballet; Stuttgart Ballet; New York City Ballet; The Australian Ballet of Melbourne; and English National Ballet of London. He served as Movement Director for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

Letters to BreakOut

We've been lucky enough to receive some of the most beautiful and touching letters about how BreakOut Studios has touched so many lives.  This video is one of three where we share these inspirational letters.

Move Forward: Prima Ballerina Olga Aru

Lana Wachowski's Visibility Award Speech

"Every one of us, every person here, every human life presents a negotiation between public and private identity."

Friday Video Feed

The Doors of School

 by Sam Quinn

Life is a series of doors.  One must have the courage, determination, and maturity to open them and endure what the other side has to offer.  My summer door is closing and the doorknob to my senior year of college is beginning to turn and open. What is on the other side of that door? Multiple hallways leading to new paths and beginnings, alongside of an array of emotions and obstacles.

My mind has yet to grasp the idea of entering my last year. The “real world” is so close, yet that upcoming road is something that has not yet been paved. Looking back on my entire academic experience, there have been ups and down, good and bad and am lucky to have been through it all. As I sit here reflecting and writing, I cannot even think as to where time has gone. The early school doors opened and closed in a blink of an eye, and, honestly, I do not remember much except that I was a brilliant finger-painter and struggled with the simple ways of math. (Dancers only need to count eight anyways, right?) The high school door swung open, tossing me into a sea of labels and obstructions that ultimately lead me to find my true self.

Going back to school is not just another time of learning useless information that you memorize to pass tests. It’s not another year to look back to see what you could have done differently and to be more prepared for the future. It is a time to live in the present, absorb all that is accessible to you, and to grow  as a student and person. After high school, it took a minute to figure out what I truly learned over four years. I thought about it and realized that I had done it all wrong. I came to realize that school is just one big giant math equation. There are a bunch of positive and negative elements jumbled all together. On the other side of the equal sign is the cumulative answer to what one should learn through all your years of school. And that single lettered answer should come out to be an F standing for fail. Without failure, we have not learned anything. It is okay to fall down multiple times, as long as you pick yourself back up and keep moving. School is all about learning from your mistakes. In my eyes, that is the one lesson that teachers cannot teach you.  

And the door to my senior year is beginning to open. I am anxious to see what obstacles I can encounter. I am eager for the future. Most of all, I am ready to conquer rejection. Not only in the dance world, but also in life. Through failure comes success, and with success comes happiness. So look to the future, open your doors, close them and don’t look back. If your door does not have a smooth paved road lying ahead of you, keep trudging along. As the saying goes, one door closes and another one opens.

The Start.

by Sam Quinn

Came across this commercial while watching the Olympics. I thought the message was beyond perfect and can relate to everyone and anyone. Remember to always cherish the start, as it ultimately will determine the outcome of the end. Be the best you can be forever and always. Life Moves, Move with It.

My Relationship with Movement

by Todd Wilson

Cirque Inspiration: Alex Mizzen

Alex Mizzen’s background has left a wonderful imprint on the artist we find today. As a trained gymnast and a graduate from the National Theatre Ballet, Alex worked as a contemporary dancer, honing her skills and performance before embarking on the circus arena. Performing across many different countries the delight she now finds is in the collaboration of these two art forms & witnessing the magic that unfolds when they do.

Beautiful Photos of Pomak Brides in Bulgaria

Pomak weddings are three-day traditional celebrations including feasts, dancing, and display of the brides dowry. On the third day of the wedding, women at the bride's home cover her face with a thick layer of facial cream. Then they stick sequins into the cream and cover the bride with a red veil. Holding a mirror in her hands, the girl closes her eyes and steps across the threshold of her father's house to take the hand of her future husband.

Various theories try to explain the meaning of this exotic ritual. Some believe that the mirror protects the bride from "evil eye," while others claim that it connects her to her dead ancestors. Anthropologists believe it is yet another variation on an initiation rite in which a girl becomes a woman and her social status is changed forever. As far as the bride's white face is concerned, Ribnovo locals have their own legend: In earlier times boys would go with their fathers into the mountains to herd sheep, only returning to the village when they were ready to get married. Since this rough lifestyle afforded them only minimal experience with women, they somehow had to learn to be gentle. Thus, the groom's first task after the wedding – then as now – is to carefully wash his wife's face with milk.

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Because I Can! - Deitrich Benjamin

Contact Deitrich Benjamin at: www.standfirmfit.com (520) 272-7593.

Gravity Defying Land Art: Cornelia Konrads

Cornelia Konrads is a modern German painter, sculptor and designer who works in the genre of land-art. Cornelia often uses the illusion of weightlessness in her on-site installations.

Forming and Fragmenting

originally found at CargoCollective.com

Forming and Fragmenting is a series of imagery by Andre Wee that depict portraits that exist in an eternal state of transition. It is however, uncertain as to whether these figures are in the process of “forming” or “fragmenting” due to it existing in such an undefined state. This inability to define, ironically labels these entities as beings that embody the idea of a limbo. An experience of being of two different states at the same time and yet, not belonging to either.