Damon D. Green, Chicago based Dance Artist and founder of TEXTUREDance Studio, located on the cities northside, in Uptown. Greens pride and joy is where he thrives to reconnect and explore a community of urban styles and forms to deliver a consistant practice for all that desired naunce in dance. Vogueing is currently Damon's specialty and he continues to explore and perform in this form, in its fusion with contemporary vocabulary, with choreographer, Associate Professor of Dance and 2013 Bessies Award winner, Darrell Jones. Damon maintains his presence in the contemporary dance world with critically acclaimed dance company "The Seldoms", led by Artistic Director Carrie Hanson. Additionally, Damon has worked with choreographer and dance educator Paige Cunningham-Calderalla, fusing Contemporary Ballet and Vogueing in a piece called "One Careless Gesture Away from Destruction" in 2011, also “OFF - CENTER” featured in the Chicago Tribunes “ top 25 dance performances of 2013”. Green has traveled abroad, performing in Siberia, Taiwan and Canada and has introduced Vogueing to Canadian and Russian students as a master teacher at the Isadora International Festival of Contemporary Dance and the World Dance Alliance Conference Festival in Vancouver. Timeout Chicago rated him one of the "Top 10 Men of Dance" in 2010. In 2012, Green establish his own dance facility, TEXTUREDANCE Studio, an urban forms practice that caters to non-traditional dance style. This studio is currently holding class in Vogue dance, Modern/Fusion, Street Jazz and Hip-Hop.