Dance-Anthony Kashim Turpin Black Male Dance Figure On Stage

Anthony Kashim Turpin, representing Jersey City, New Jersey  as well as Philadelphia, Pennsylvania U.S., is currently the only Black-American male dancer skilled to teach dance styles of Ballet, Modern, Jazz, Contemporary, quick step and Hip Hop.

Kashim, the director and choreographer of his own ballet and movement program called AKAstudios, is considered by many performance artists to be the strongest teachers of dance in New York and New Jersey urban neighborhoods.

He is the youngest Black male dance instructor originally from West Philadelphia to dance on the national stage with adults and children.  

Some ballet instructors deterred him, citing his muscular frame and brown dark skin as difficulty to the ballet world.

Kashim was a standout student at the University of The Arts and toured with several professional dance companies afterward.

In his spare time, Kashim models for Philadelphia Front Page News Magazine, a popular news magazine published online and created by Philadelphia’s own Van Stone Downing.

Currently Kashim runs his outreach program in Jersey City NJ at a few public schools during after school and weekend hours.

Anthony Kashim Turpin’s dance work is mostly set to alternative music, classical music, tracks and remixes in dance, and blend of hip-hop and R&B music.