Storyboard P
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Storyboard P | |
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| Born | 1990 or 1991 (age 34–35)[1][2] |
| Occupation | Street dancer |
| Awards | Bessie Award for Outstanding Emerging Choreographer[3] |
Storyboard P (born Saalim Muslim) is an American street dancer. He is one of the foremost practitioners of the flex genre of street dance, and is particularly noted for his improvisational style. He developed a type of dance called "mutation" or "mutant", which uses fractured movements in an homage to stop motion animation, which the name "Storyboard P" also alludes to.
Storyboard P was born Saalim Muslim, and grew up in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. He danced under the name Professoar, but later switched to the name Storyboard P, with "Storyboard" referring to stop motion animation, and the "P" retained from Professoar.[2] He studied dance at the Harlem School of the Arts.[2]
Style
Storyboard P is particularly known for flex, a style of street dance that originated in Brooklyn and involves pantomime and physical contortion.[4] He also developed his own genre of street dance, called "mutation"[4] or "mutant".[2] This style draws from animation, particularly stop motion and claymation, and involves tightly controlled and fractured movements, and simulations of seemingly impossible motion like levitation or moving backwards while walking forwards.[2][4] Storyboard P is particularly noted for his dance improvisation.[5]