Established in 2005, VENUS FLY (VF) was one of the first female all-styles crew of the U.S. underground street dance community.  VF specializes in dance styles that were born within U.S. urban communities of color between the 1960s and 1980s, including popping, locking, breaking, house, waacking, and choreography.  VF features seven highly accomplished street dancers, including: “B-Girl Teena Marie” Custer, “B-Girl Vanicia” Flores-Messick, Jocelyn “Evillynn” Eckhout, Kelsa Robinson, Marie “Pandora” Medina, Amber “Pringlz” Rowlett and Tracy “Ti-en-T” Yang.  VF members are also teaching artists, community organizers, academics, contemporary, hip hop dance theatre choreographers, and multimedia artists who have each spent 15-plus years training, ciphering, battling, and building within the underground hip hop, house, and street-dance communities.  They have performed and taught classes across the country and around the world.  Along with numerous commercial achievements, including television, film, video, and concert performances with major music artists, their dedication remains firmly rooted in community.  Members of Venus Fly specialize in community-based art forms, born within rich social and cultural environments.  Their mission is to root themselves and others in the histories and contexts of these dance styles, pay homage to the lineage of dancers who came before them and give back through education, mentorship, community-building, and artist expression.