Kevin “Kasper” Glasper
Nationally known Hip-Hop artist Kevin Michael Joseph “Kasper” Glasper teaches two levels of hip-hop at the McKinney Center. Glasper has been dancing for over 15 years, and has trained and danced with D’ron Yancey at Belleville Elite Dance Company, Edward Chukukere, Will “Willdabeast” Adams, Susan Pace White, Eva Hunter, Tom Blesing, and  Brandon McCurry, among others. He is one of the founders of UCF: Universally Complicated Freestylers which began in 2009. He has trained in numerous styles of dance including: popping, locking, waving, Tutting, choreography/street dancer, hip-hop, ballet, and contemporary. He is a prolific dance instructor. In addition to teaching at the McKinnney Center, he teaches hip-hop at Xtreme Dance Company, serves as a dance instructor at Holloway Dance School and the ETSU Mary B. Martin School of the Arts, and has served as a dance teacher at City Youth Ballet in Johnson City. He has performed his repertoire on a national level at large festivals and exhibitions

Hip Hop is a street style or urban style of dance that focuses on self-expression and movement that involves the whole body. Students will have fun while focusing on techniques of gliding, popping, breaking and whacking. Hip Hop is perfect for the beginning or advanced student who has the desire to participate in a less structured dance form which does not require knowledge or training in classical technique.

Hip Hop Level II:
Hip Hop is an eclectic street style or urban style of dance that is performed in running shoes to current upbeat tempos. The dynamic moves taught in this class are fast, stylish, and funky. This class is appropriate for high energy students that are driven by a beat. Students will work on choreography, strength, flexibility, and musicality through intricate fun and faced past choreography.

Jonesborough’s Mary B. Martin Program for the Arts:
Offers technique and performance classes as part of dance curriculum. Classes are fun and an outlet for self-expression. Dance is also an important tool in the development and growth of students. Skills and technique are the focus of classes instead of competition. A final group performance is the goal of each class but not required.