Pridgen is a dance artist, choreographer and urban arts
educator who is the founding artistic director of Motif Performance
Project: a project oriented performing arts collaboration with a
purpose in reflecting the human experience through African
Diasproic and underground dance. Rashad had been apart of
underground dance culture for fifteen years while simultaneously
apprenticed the art of choreography, this inquiry places him in the
generation of artist developing the "future dance aesthetic" by
translating street dance vernacular for the classical performance
stage. Rashad has performed with Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance
Company, Ronald K. Brown/Nick Caves "Soundsuites", Jacobs Pillow
Dance Festival, Rennie Harris's: Illadelph Legends
Festival, The Living Word/Hybrid Project, Jacinta Vlach/Liberation
Dance Theater, Hip-Hop Theater Festival SF and The Black
Choreographers Festival 2005 & 2009. Constantly examining the
theory of movement and facilitation Rashad is the first African
American graduate of The Moving On Center School for Participatory
Arts and Somatic Research as a Somatic Educator.
