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Ana ‘Rokafella’ Garcia

Ana “Rokafella” Garcia is a NYC native who has professionally represented women in hip-hop dance over the past three decades. She co-founded Full Circle Prod Inc., NYC’s only nonprofit hip-hop dance theater company, with her husband Kwikstep. She directed a documentary highlighting the B-girl lifestyle entitled “All The Ladies Say” with support from Third World Newsreel and Bronx Council of the Arts. She judges break dance competitions internationally and offers unique workshops aimed at evolving and preserving the dance form’s technique and cultural aspects. She has worked within the NYC public school system and various NYC based community centers to launch programs to expose young students to the possibility of a career in dance. In May of 2017 she launched “ShiRoka,” a t-shirt fashion line with Japanese grafitti artist Shiro. She has been featured in rap music videos, tours, film, fashion shows, and commercials, including the Netflix series, “The Get Down.”

Rokafella has choreographed for festivals and concerts such as The NY Philharmonic Orchestra’s Firebird in 2022, The Kennedy Center, Momma’s Hip-Hop Kitchen, and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Branching out of her dance lane, she has also recorded original songs and poetry and performed at various clubs and festivals. She is a multi faceted Afro Indigenous Nuyorican who is well established in the hip-hop scene.