Dinita “Queen Di” Clark

HOUSE DANCE (Clark Method)
CLASS DESCRIPTION: House Dance is a club dance form under the umbrella of street dance. This class is based in the Clark Method pedagogy created by Kyle "JustSole" Clark and I. The Clark Method is a well informed and experienced pedagogy that has been developed through our 20+ years of practice as club heads, dancers, competitors and performers. House dance if a fusion form of African, Latin, Tap and Hip Hop social dances. You can expect to feel liberated and energized while being educated in the fundamentals of the form and it's movement principles.

Dinita “Queen Di” Clark
Dinita “Queen Di” Clark is a native of Philadelphia. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from The University of The Arts. She dedicated over 20 years to Hip Hop/Street and club dance culture as a professional dancer/performer, educator, mentor, choreographer, and cultural ambassador of street dance. She toured both nationally and internationally as a Principal dancer with Illstyle & Peace Productions from 2002-2007 and Rennie Harris Puremovement from 2007-2015 serving as a Principal/Assistant Rehearsal Director. Locally, Dinita is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of the Arts and Drexel University. She has also taught at Bryn Mawr College and Temple University, and has set choreography for each institution. In 2010, she co-founded Just Sole! Street Dance Theater Company, followed in 2011 by Funky Sole Fundamentals - a workshop series dedicated to the preservation of Hip Hop, House, and Funk Styles dance. Dinita has performed and taught internationally in Poland, Mexico, UK, Amsterdam, Canada, Paris, Egypt, Israel, Palestine, Kyrgyz Republic, Kazakhstan and Jordan. She has represented the U.S. as a Cultural Ambassador three times. She has taught at dance festivals including The International Association of Blacks in Dance (IABD), Ladies Of Hip Hop Festival, Illadelph Legends Festival, Bates Dance Festival, the 13th Contemporary Dance Festival in Bytom, Barriquismo Festival in Puebla, Mexico, City Lights Festival in Newcastle, England to name a few. Dinita has also judged and won national and international street dance competitions including Freestyle Session/ Survival of the Illest and Juste Debout USA. She was the assistant to choreographer Kyle “JustSole” Clark in his work for Alvin Ailey II titled “I Am the Road.” With funding provided from the Pew Center for the Arts and Heritage in 2016 for Kyle Clark’s “The Life of A Just Sole,” Dinita was the administrative assistant, co-choreographer, outreach coordinator and master class educator. Dinita “Queen Dinita” is the recipient of the 2020 Philly Rocky Award, 2019 Pew Fellowship Award and 2017 Leeway Transformation Award for her dedication to Hip Hop/Street Dance and culture to Philadelphia and beyond.

Just Sole! Street Dance Theater Company
Just Sole! Street Dance Theater Company was founded in 2010 by its Directors Kyle "JustSole" Clark and Dinita "Queen Dinita" Clark. The mission of the company, is to use Hip Hop/Street and club dance forms theatrically to inspire, empower, innovate, and motivate others to embrace their story and individuality while teaching the culture and history of Hip Hop Dance. Just Sole! SDTC has performed all over the North East corridor. Most notably, they just performed at I.A.B.D. 2020, Summer Stage NYC 2017, Jacob's Pillow "Inside/Out" 2016, Philadanco’s Founders’ Day 2015/2016, and Koresh’s “Come Together” Festival 2013-2019.

Just Sole! Street Dance Theater Company is fresh group of young emerging artists that are conscience, informed, and dynamic. Thinking Dance writes “ [Just Sole! SDTC] presented a youthful and raw version of hip-hop.” The Dance Journal writes “ Their transitions are very well structured and the launch-pad for individual talents as well as dazzling esprit de corps all spelling dance fireworks.”

"[a] straightforward hip-hop ensemble with streaming unison precision."