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What is the Breakthrough Movement?

I’m SO glad you asked, and have found yourself here to find out more about joining the movement!

The Breakthrough Movement is a community of artists committed to provoking positive change and inspiring action through culturally relevant art, dance and theatre. It is our commitment to live and dance in a way within our local communities to inspire global change, one community at a time.

We believe that the presence of art, and the role that art plays in society, is far greater than it's ‘commercial’ value. In fact, art inherently is NOT commercial in nature. Finding ‘success’ as an artist has many many more levels than the narrow target that it is made out to be.

Meet the Directors

Garrett ‘Spaghetti’ Minniti

Ahkai Franklin

What does the movement do??

All Breakthrough Movement initiatives create opportunities for Education (a workshop experience), Production (a performance experience), and/or Philanthropy (a giving-back to a community experience). For example, in 2016 we debuted the 'Collaboration TOUR,' where we travelled to Guatemala to teach a 10-day workshop, collaborated to create a LIVE production with a local dance company AND donated funds to build (and built) 2 'Pretty-Stoves' for families in need of the upgrade. OR, in 2018 when we produced a 2-day workshop event in New Orleans to raise funds and collect goods for a local family in need and culminated with the filming of a promotional music video for the studio.

Now, more than ever, we believe that drawing our communities closer together is essential to our survival, let alone professional or artistic achievement. We are living in a time of social distancing and self isolation; a time of derision, divisiveness, and division. We believe that artistic expression plays a vital role in forcing social introspection, provoking change and the releasing of ideas that are damaging to or no longer of service to the greater good of our global community and collective humanity. We believe that artistic expression is an essential part our healing process and a gateway to finding common ground so that we can move forward together.