Joshua Culbreath
Joshua Culbreath (BBoy Supa Josh) is a choreographer, educator, and cultural ambassador specializing in Hip Hop and street dance. A Philadelphia native, he began Breaking at age seven and has since become an influential figure in the field. He has performed with Rennie Harris Puremovement from 2009 to 2023, serving as Assistant Artistic Director during his tenure.
Joshua is Co-founder of Snack Break Movement Arts, a street-dance-inspired performance duo, and a member of Retro Flow Crew, representing the Philadelphia and New Jersey Breaking scenes. Named one of Dance Magazine’s Top 25 Artists to Watch in 2018, his work has been presented at The Annenberg Center, The Yard, ICA Boston, The Palace of Fine Arts, and internationally in Amsterdam.
In 2012, he was selected as a U.S. Hip Hop cultural ambassador to the DR of Congo under the Obama Administration. He holds an MFA in Dance from the University of Iowa, where his research explored Hip Hop as an embodied archive and a tool for community transformation.
Emily Culbreath
Emily (Lady Em) Culbreath (MFA) is an award-winning street and club dance practitioner, educator, writer, and choreographer who is most known for her work as a core member and rehearsal director for world-renowned Hip-Hop Theater company, Rennie Harris Puremovement, and for her work as co-founder and director of her Hip Hop Theater organization, Snack Break Movement Arts. Emily has shown her work at the "Illadelph" Street Dance Festival, "The Come Together Festival" hosted by Koresh Dance, "Here and Now vol. II" sponsored by W.O.R.X, The San Francisco International Hip Hop Dance Festival, Summer Dance Forever's Theater Forever program (Amsterdam, NL), Urban Movement Arts' "UMA Shows Up" program (PA), RADFest (MI) and as a guest choreographer at Franklin & Marshall College (PA), Georgian Court University (NJ), and Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. Emily was invited to present her choreography at the American College Dance Association's National Festival (Washington, D.C.) in May, 2025. Culbreath has taught and guest lectured in various contexts, including Mark Morris Dance Group (Brooklyn, NY), New Visions for Public Schools (NY), The New School, Union College, The University of Colorado at Boulder, The University of Iowa, Princeton University, and Rennie Harris University's street dance certification program. She is currently a writer for the dance journalism platform thINKingDANCE.
