Cherie Gendron

Cherie “Breezie” Gendron, originally from Atlanta, Georgia, is a practitioner of both hip-hop culture and house dance. She aims to honor the origins of hip hop and house dance as freestyle and cypher-based dance forms. As a practitioner, Gendron attends weekly cypher sessions and enters battles to inform her technique and commitment to the street dance community. She received her BA in Dance from UCLA in 2019 and is a current MFA Candidate in Dance with a focus on Performance and Choreography at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. With over 20 years of dance training and performing, over 10 years of teaching choreography, and eight years of teaching technique, Gendron studies and practices dance from a cultural perspective while emphasizing technique training in her teaching. She builds upon her dance knowledge by expanding her theoretical research and regularly attending workshops, conferences, and panel discussions. She acknowledges the land she lives and practices on is the land of the Kānaka Maoli and diasporic communities.