Gallim Dance showcases Bed-Stuy street-dance artist in anniversary series at The Joyce

The Brooklyn dance company Gallim is celebrating its 15th anniversary season at the Joyce Theater this weekend, with performances running through Sunday. Befitting a milestone celebration, the program incorporates some favorite past dances, including “FROM” and “No Ordinary Love.”

But the program also includes a new work, “song,” which incorporates an unexpected style: krumping, an aggressive, high-energy street-dance born in Los Angeles during the early 2000s. Andrea Miller, Gallim’s founder and artistic director, developed the piece in collaboration with Brooklyn dancer Brian “HallowDreamz” Henry.

Miller, who formed Gallim with the express intent of fostering a more diverse, inclusive and accessible dance community, first met Henry at a cancer benefit show, she says, and immediately felt connected to the way he danced. Krumping involves highly energetic and dramatic movements that are often intense, with dancers sometimes invading one another’s personal space to execute moves like stomping and chest-popping.

Miller invited Henry to teach in Gallim’s community dance classes. When the time felt right, she presented the idea of working together formally.

“I feel what we share is this thing where human expression, especially art making, is an instinct of survival,” Miller said. “That’s what I see when I see his work. And that’s what I feel about why I make work.”

Henry, now 34, was born and raised in Bed-Stuy. He says discovering a video of krumping creators Ceasare “Tight Eyez” Willis and Jo’Artis “Big Mijo” Ratti in 2004 saved him from possibly living a life filled with gang violence.

“Immediately, I was just like that little kid at home in his socks on the rug doing the moonwalk,” Henry said. “I was trying to figure out every move. I was trying to figure out how to do it. I was figuring out why it’s being done. I had an obsession from that moment.”

From childhood, Henry had seen his two…