Duane Lee Holland

Dancer, choreographer, singer, actor, and director. Duane Lee Holland Jr began his professional dance career with Rennie Harris Puremovement (RHPM), the first hip-hop theater dance company, where he later served as assistant artistic director. Holland has also worked with choreographers including Ronald K. Brown’s Evidence, Garth Fagan (The Lion King), and Jeff Masted (A Few Good Men) and was assistant choreographer and assistant dance captain for Maurice Hines’s Hot Feet on Broadway, In 2016 he joined The Boston Conservatory of Dance at Berklee, as their first Hip-Hop full-time faculty member. In May 2019, Duane was appointed Assistant Professor of Dance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is the first Hip-Hop faculty member. He holds an MFA in Dance with the University of Iowa with a Master of Fine Arts in Dance, with a focus in Choreography.