Through dance, music, education, and reflection, Lyanne's work explores the connections between movement, sound, self awareness, and shared experience.
Lyanne Brooks is a curator, connector, and community builder whose work has helped build bridges between Hawaiʻi and the broader worlds of house music, street dance, and club culture. She is the founder and curator of Soulgasm Hawaiʻi, Hawaiʻi's longest running house music gathering, which has brought together and welcomed artists, DJs, dancers, musicians, vocalists, and communities from across Hawaiʻi, the continental United States, and around the world, while also extending to Maui and the Big Island of Hawaiʻi through special events, artist exchanges and community collaborations.
For more than two decades, she has taught hip hop, and house dance on Oʻahu, with guest workshops on Maui and the Big Island. Through classes, workshops, performances, cultural exchange, and faculty positions at dance studios and educational programs, she has played a leading role in introducing house dance to wider public audiences in Hawaiʻi and creating opportunities for the form to be studied, practiced, and shared across a variety of community and educational settings.
Along the way, she has created spaces and opportunities for learning, cultural exchange, and community connection, including 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 wide range of street and club dance styles and cultures. Her work has also included House Dance Hawaii, an annual freestyle dance contest founded to celebrate self expression, musicality, community, and the spirit of dance.
Beyond teaching, she has contributed to Hawaiʻi's dance community as a performer, judge, mentor, and cultural ambassador. Through her work, she has helped foster connections between local dancers and the broader worlds of street dance, club dance, and house culture. She also served as Hawaiʻi's representative for House Dance International in New York City.
Alongside her work in music and movement, she has supported individuals through one on one sessions utilizing astrology as a symbolic language for reflection, self understanding, and meaningful exploration of life's experiences, patterns, and transitions. Her creative explorations have also found expression through aromatherapy in collaboration with Aʻala Herbal Apothecary, resulting in custom blends inspired by many of the same values that inform her work in music, movement, and community: creativity, reflection, connection, and shared experience.
Today, Lyanne continues to create spaces where music, movement, education, and reflection come together, fostering meaningful connection and shared experience.