(slow hip-hop music) (indistinct ethereal singing) - [Infinite] My name is Infinite.

My dance name is iVVy.

My style is Flexing.

And I've been doing Flexing for just over a decade.

(indistinct ethereal singing) The things that stand out to other people in my dance style would be maybe the fact that I'm feminine and then I'm like dominant.

Maybe I'm just really creative.

(slow music) (indistinct ethereal singing) (slow music continues) (slow music continues) (slow music) I am definitely a mover.

In Flexing, a lot of our foundation is from Bruk Up and dancehall and old school dancehall grooves.

So I am always in a groove in like my waves, and my postures and my poses are from just a lot of traditional style dance.

It just tells a lot of feminine stories.

As a woman in street dance, I do believe that we are the, we are a minority.

I do feel as, as far as me being feminine in Flexing, it's very needed.

FDM music is Flex Dance Music.

I chose to use Flex Dance Music because representation is very important in my dance style right now.

And to display my dance style and be able to collaborate with different DJs and different musicians in my dance style and street dance of Flexing, I think that it's very, it's very, it's very demanding.

I believe any variety of a woman being an artist in Flexing should be needed.

- [Kashif] Not only are women needed, I didn't want the Caged Birds theater show to focus on only male talent, but also that women are part of the criminal justice system, or at least affected by it.

- I got into Caged Birds through a great friend of mine, Kash.

Always looking out for me creatively.

When he sent me the opportunity, I thought it was the perfect time to really display and express certain parts of my story that I really don't share with a lot of people.

(upbeat flex dance music) - [Kashif] When creating this touring show, we were supposed to uproot all the dancers from New York City to a retreat in upstate New York.

At first, I was worried about removing them from their environment, but found quickly that Bethany Arts Center was a place of peace.

- My original hometown is from, I'm out of Yonkers, just like where we are right now.

So I'm very accustomed to the woodland area and being away.

But I mostly enjoy being in places like this because I get more clarity and I can just see my world from a higher point of view.

(upbeat flex dance music) My first piece is about me being in my younger years, very wild, very, very out there, very rebellious, really getting into a lot of trouble and getting myself into a lot of situations that I couldn't get out of until one day I kind of ended up getting myself in a situation that was pretty hard for me.

(upbeat flex dance music) - [Kashif] Dancing on the train isn't the only way that artists end up in jail.

iVVy's arrest was for domestic altercation.

But she chose in her moments of reflection to be the dancer we see today and not continue activities that risked her life and freedom.

(upbeat flex dance music) (slow music) - The second piece shows me caged on a mantle.

I say mantle because those people who have like fireplaces at their place, and most of the time, like people like grab a scotch and they'll drink and they'll put their arm on a rest and they can just, you know, look at their world through the fire.

So I feel like in that place it will be considered a crossroad or a mantle.

And I feel like the second act is about me being at a crossroad, trying to figure out who I wanna be.

And my third piece is about the evolution of me becoming a flex artist, an artist in Flexing, not just a street dancer anymore.

How I've made Flexing my professional life and how I am able to transform other people's lives with the dance style.

I do guided lab, all level style workshop, dance workshop for Flexing.

My goal is to get people more into the experience of what Flexing is, or better yet, just indulging in things like street dance so they can find different ways to escape the things that we deal with in this climate of society.

- Eventually I realized that there was a whole vocabulary that dancers were speaking to each other with, and that there was different styles that went with different genres of music.

And I kind of made it my life's mission to document these styles.

If I couldn't film them myself, people would send me videos and I would speak about these different styles in a show that I hosted for years every Friday called the "YAK Like You Know" show.

32 countries I traveled to filming dance competitions.

(upbeat flex dance music) (indistinct singing) (upbeat flex dance music continues) (indistinct singing) (upbeat flex dance music continues) (indistinct singing) (upbeat flex dance music continues) (upbeat flex dance music continues) - I pray that those who are watching and those who sit and analyze our stories don't just look at us like we are all the same going through the same struggle.

Though struggle is heavy and struggle is something that we all bear with trauma, we all have our own scope and we all have all different lives.

Regardless.