#CAArtsChampion Harry Weston

Harry Weston

Principal Dancer & Partnerships Manager, Versa-Style

Harry Weston grew up in Santa Cruz, California, surrounded by West African dance and drumming, his first artistic inspirations. He found hip-hop at the age of 8, but only later discovered his true love of not only hip-hop dance but hip-hop culture and history itself, changing his life forever. At the age of 18, he moved to Los Angeles to study dance at UCLA where he met Jackie Lopez and Leigh Foaad, who eventually asked him to join their hip-hop dance-theater company, Versa-Style, in 2009. He has since traveled all over the world teaching and performing in places such as India, Israel, Philadelphia, Oregon, New York, and San Francisco. In 2012, after graduating from UCLA with a Bachelor of Arts degree in World Arts and Cultures with a concentration in Dance, plus a minor in Civic Engagement.