Ana “Rokafella” Garcia is a New York City native and multi-faceted dance-based artist who has represented women in Hip Hop dance professionally over the past three decades. BGirl Rokafella references street and Afro-Latino culture as her foundation. She has been featured in pivotal rap music videos, tours, films, and commercials as well as choreographed for diverse festivals and concerts such as Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Momma’s Hip Hop Kitchen, and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. She co-founded Full Circle Productions Inc., New York City’s only non-profit break dance theater company with her husband, veteran BBoy Kwikstep, generating theater pieces, original poetry, and local dance-related events. She performs music based on her experiences growing up in Hip Hop’s birthplace and has had her poetry published in a Bronx poets anthology.
In addition to directing the documentary about b-girls, All the Ladies Say, she is hired internationally to judge break dance competitions. BGirl Rokafella teaches unique workshops aimed at celebrating the roots and history as well as the technique of classic Hip Hop dance styles.
As an adjunct professor at The New School and Hip Hop dance instructor at Peridance Studios, she motivates aspiring dancers to understand and learn the business side of being an independent artist. In 2017, she launched Shiroka, a t-shirt fashion line with Japanese graffiti artist Shiro to showcase both of their designer skills in addition to BGirl Rokafella’s unique earring designs.
