Kut The Rug Institute (KTRi) is a cultural institution without walls.
We study, archive, present and celebrate Street and Club Dance forms born in New York City. We collaborate with culture bearers, artists, scholars, and communities whose embodied knowledge emerges through music, movement and oral history.
WHAT WE DO
Since 2008, KTRi has commissioned artists; produced original research, panel conversations, exhibitions, and interdisciplinary events that expand how people experience, learn, and discuss the street and club dance forms created by Black, Latinx, and LGBTQIA+ New Yorkers. Our work has been featured on PBS; quoted in the New York Times; commissioned by the Guggenheim Museum, NY Hall of Science, NYC Arts in Education Roundtable and the Met; presented at Harvard Graduate School of Education, the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Ladies of Hip Hop Studio, and CUE Art Foundation.
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