Director, Equity Manager
Mary Fogarty
Mary Fogarty is Associate Professor of Dance at York University, Toronto, Canada. She also lectured and co-taught breaking classes with DJ Renegade at the University of East London, England. Fogarty is the co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Hip Hop Dance Studies (forthcoming, 2022) and has published research about breaking in numerous books and journals. She was instrumental in the Toronto B-Girl Movement as a member of KeepRockinYou, an arts collective. Fogarty performed at Breakin’ Convention at the Festival Theatre in Edinburgh, Scotland with her crew, the Flyin’ Jalapenos, and she has judged breaking events in Canada and the UK. She is currently co-editing special issue about Breaking and the Olympics for the Global Hip Hop Studies Journal with b-boy\Dr. Jason Ng. They are organizing a supplementary speaker series for researcher/practitioners to share their work internationally in the lead up to the Olympics that will begin in October 2021.
