About

about me

STEMMING from a childhood name, PeachKRAYZ is a brand to empower women, lifting up scholarship as a tool to tell moving stories. Peaches//PJ//Penelope has been a dance instructor in public schools and dance studios since 1992.

She studied somatic practices in depth at the Tisch School of the Arts in NYC, and toured internationally as a multi-hyphenate performer for 13 years.

While training on the hills of Germantown Philadelphia, and the parking lots of Boulder, Colorado, Peachkrayz cultivated a keen sense of the natural rhythm within all earth…the ancestral rhythm. Since its commodification began in 1977, Hip Hop has remained an elusive source of the spiritual principles of love, healing, and rebirth. With the planets aligning our Selves ever more quickly to “Africa at Work”, accessing higher knowledge and true power has never been more vital to the survival of life here. Through dance, music, writing, spoken words, and true knowledge, Peachkrayz Presents was borne through struggle and emergency.

Peachkrayz credits Miko Doi Smith (Los Angeles) for passing on the power of healing touch and character of Thai Therapeutic Massage. She credits Arooj Aftab (Lahore/NYC) for opening the world’s ears to nature’s fantasy and modeling the feminine blueprint of a dream. She credits Samantha Farrow (Philadelphia/Los Angeles/NYC) for teaching non-judgemental listening that begets unconditional love and sisterhood. She credits Karla Garcia (Broadway, NYC) for moving with the unshakeable faith that the ancestors have in oldest daughters.

Peachkrayz offers classes in Hip Hop dance, and Hip Hop performance. Hip Hop classes are physically demanding, mentally technical, encouraging and socially fun. Freestyle performance, essential knowledge of alignment, historical stories celebrating the Free Black Diaspora as well as respect for the knowledge are common themes of practice.

Special credit to +Makini Jumatatu Poe, +Marguerite Hemmings, +Ching-i Chang, +Angelina Snowflake Labate, +Farrah For Movement, +Tyreis Hunte, +Steph Sanchez, and +Vidya Seven Shaker for creating space in their HEART for this :

Penelope will receive her Hip Hop History & Teaching Technique Certificate in 2026, officially becoming an inaugural cohort to graduate from Rennie Harris University, mentored by North Philadelphia legend & visionary Lorenzo Rennie Harris.

“Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it’s not.
It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way.
The real test is not whether you avoid this failure –because you won’t.
It’s whether you let it shame or harden you into inaction, or whether you learn from it.
Whether you choose to persevere.”
Barack H. Obama, Jr.

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