I'm not Parris without dance.
It is who I am.
That is why I'm here.
I believe everyone has a purpose,
and that is my purpose.
Dance is my first language.
So, now I'm just trying to show other dancers
that you can take what you've learnt within dance
and actually create your own pathway
and become an entrepreneur.
My favorite thing about creating is
I walk into the studio with a blank canvas.
I don't know what's going to come out of me.
I walk in with that emotion and that honesty,
and then I just let it come out of my pores.
My body is the paintbrush,
and I just start painting.
It's about just being pure, honest and raw.
And then I feel the rest just does its job.
Today we're working on a really special project.
We are performing at New York Fashion Week,
and we're doing a tribute
for the queen herself, Serena Williams.
Yeah.
Okay.
Can we do that two more times?
Yeah.
Even though what we do is so completely different,
she's inspired me my entire career.
There's something really magical about
taking the strength that Serena has when she plays tennis
and putting that into our movement.
I'm excited to be taking on New York Fashion Week
with a diverse group of women
of different body shapes, different ethnicities.
We're kind of busting down those doors
and unapologetically showing up,
and we're going to kill it.
So I'm really excited about that.
Cute.
Hot.
It’s so hot.
We're hot and it’s hot.
We're hot and the temperature is hot.
Yeah.
It's quite interesting,
as humans, we kind of program to have one goal,
one dream for our entire lifetime.
And we work our whole lives towards that one thing.
But actually we can do several things at one time.
We can learn several skills, several gifts.
I'm just trying to show other dancers
that you can keep your dreams open.
You let your gifts carry you to the next stop.
We'll walk through with what we've done with your feedback.
And see how you're feeling.
And I think we can do that pretty quickly
because we're excited to have you style some stuff.
Okay, cool.
As a dancer, I'm extremely passionate about style,
and what I wear and how clothes make me feel.
So it's been really cool to be able to share my thoughts,
my opinions, with the women's design team at Nike.
In dance, clothes literally dictate the way we move
and the personalities that come out of us,
you know, down to the materials, to the silhouette.
Dancers, especially in hip hop,
have such an amazing way of using style and fashion
and incorporating that in how we move.
I also want to see this with the pants as well.
To me, the future of design is like
a reflection of where the world is at.
There’s like this new energy coming about
where people don't want to waste time anymore.
Like people want to chase their dreams.
People want to take risks.
People want to stand out.
People want to use their voices now more than ever,
and I think that's reflecting in the clothes we’re wearing.
So the performance I've created,
the inspiration behind it is woman empowerment.
My goal for the performance was to embody
everything about Serena, from her strength
to her uniqueness, to her story, to her resilience.
My creative approach has changed over the years.
As I've evolved as a woman,
I have so many more experiences to pull from.
It's actually been really awesome to feel that growth
and feel how I can stretch my creative wings
and use my voice in different ways.
Your creative DNA is what runs through your veins.
It’s how you see the world.
What lights you up?
What sets you on fire?
That's your own DNA,
and no one else thinks or feels the way you do.
Once you acknowledge that, understand that,
it becomes a superpower.
Then your purpose becomes much, much bigger.
And you're not just creating because it's fun.
You're actually creating to change the world.