The MWAH! Performing Arts Troupe evolved from a uniquely choreographed, championship caliber break dance team created as a healthy alternative to street gangs. That group, the Explosonic Rockers Street Jazz Theatrical Troupe, was founded in December 1983 by Ray Moffitt, then a police social worker in Maywood, Illinois, a near west suburb of Chicago.
The Explosonic Rockers morphed into the MWAH! Performing Arts Troupe in 1993. In January 2001 the MWAH! troupe became an affiliate of the Chicago Area Project, a grass-roots service and advocacy agency based in downtown Chicago and part of a statewide community services network targeting at-risk youth and their families. Over the years the troupe has collaborated with several other respected service and prevention-oriented organizations in the preparation of a portion of its repertoire.
From boom box with tape cassettes to a wireless microphone sound system with programmed CDs, the beat goes on. And some things never change with the MWAH! troupe. The exclamation mark always is the most important part of the name.
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MWAH! Performing Arts Troupe 