Music, movement, education, and reflection form the foundation of Lyanne Brooks' work. As a curator, connector, cultural steward, and community builder, she continues to bridge Hawaiʻi with the broader worlds of House music, street dance, and club culture, creating spaces for connection, exploration, and shared experience.
She is the Founder & Artistic Director of Soulgasm Hawaiʻi, the islands' longest running House music gathering, which has welcomed DJs, musicians, vocalists, dancers, artists, and communities from across Hawaiʻi, the continental United States, and around the world, while also extending to Maui and the Island of Hawaiʻi through special events, artist exchanges, and community collaborations.
For more than two decades, she has taught freestyle movement, hip hop, and House dance on Oʻahu, with guest workshops on Maui and the Island of Hawaiʻi. Through classes, workshops, choreography, performances, cultural exchange, and faculty positions at dance studios and educational programs, she has helped introduce House dance to wider public audiences in Hawaiʻi while creating opportunities for the form to be studied, practiced, and shared across diverse community and educational settings.
Along the way, she created Housing Project 360, a dance school and community hub that brought people together through classes, workshops, open sessions, performance opportunities, and community gatherings. Housing Project 360 also hosted internationally recognized dancers and educators representing a broad range of street and club dance styles and cultures.
She also founded House Dance Hawaiʻi, an annual freestyle dance contest celebrating self expression, musicality, community, and the spirit of dance.
Lyanne has also contributed to Hawaiʻi's dance community as a performer, judge, mentor, organizer, cultural ambassador, and artistic collaborator. She has helped foster connections between local dancers and the broader worlds of street dance, club dance, and House culture, and also served as Hawaiʻi's representative for House Dance International in New York City. These contributions have helped deepen appreciation for House music, House dance, and the broader culture that surrounds them in Hawaiʻi.
She also offers one on one Rhythm & Reflection sessions utilizing astrology as a symbolic language for self understanding and meaningful exploration. Her creative work also extends into aromatherapy through a collaboration with Aʻala Herbal Apothecary, resulting in two custom blends inspired by the energy of Soulgasm and quieter moments of reflection and calm.
Today, Lyanne continues to create spaces where music, movement, education, and reflection invite connection, exploration, self understanding, and shared experience.