‘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.’  

-Garrett ‘Spaghetti’ Minniti & Ahkai Franklin (June 2020)

June 2020 | #BlackLivesMatter

This month, we have began our journey in support of the black lives matter movement. It is our goal to create dance and theatre that provokes conversation and inspires change, BUT how can we take that further? The #BlackLivesMatter movement is but a small part of a much larger movement for social and economic equality, criminal justice reform, anti-racism, just to name a few things. Beyond creating art, we have already began conducting interviews and forums discussing some of these issues in an attempt to provide additional resources and perspective to contribute to the movement. We understand that these are uncomfortable discussions to have, however we must wade our way through them on the journey forward, and beyond that in the interest of finding healing, justice, and change.

If you would like to be involved in any aspect of these projects in support of the Black Lives matter movement, or any Breakthrough Movement initiative please email us directly at thebreakthroughnyc@gmail.com.