I had the opportunity to do a quick video to help promote LXD’s Oscar performance this last Sunday. If you didn’t catch it keep an eye out for it as itwazzz quite amazing. For this baby, they had painted Chadd gold by the time I arrived and there wasn’t enough paint for my white bod, so I got to play the janitor—YAY! haa. It was fun as always playing around on camera. I know, I know, I should win an oscar for my performance as “Bobby” the janitor in this vid! ENJOY the maddness that is the chaddness, my brobotic robotic sensei:
So the other day I wrote this long blog entry about my amazing experience at Vibe 15. I went to save it forgetting to copy my entry JUST IN CASE and sure enough my OWN CMS logged me out and I lost it all. So I’ll attempt to remember what I originally wrote. First, I was there repping Kallusive and hosting a behind the scenes look at vibe. Be sure to peep the site in coming weeks for the vid. Second, let me state, the level of commercial hip hop choreo has increased to a ridiculous magnitude. The lyric matching musicality and dynamic movements are amazing to watch, especially when squads of 30 to 60 are performing the SAME movements. Mike Song’s piece from his new “family-gathering,” Anbu Black Ops was my personal favorite:
I loved choreo cookies, Kaba Modern Legacy and this piece by Unity is just beautiful, in addition to being a nice break from all the choreo choreo choreo.
As a side note, I do wanna say that I hope I can assist in being a bridge for the very large gap that exist between Street Dancers and Choreo Dancers. It always blows my mind how this kids can move sooo well doing choreo but then when you tell them to just dance, the task proves quite difficult. I also have to say that watching this “bubble” of a dance community in Irvine makes me quite envious of how it must be to have a college experience full of a supportive dance community. I didn’t have that in ATL Shawty but it makes me thankful that I found Totem and Joy my two bboyin sensei’s. Definitely grateful that I at least experienced the community that Totem built even if now where near the size of the dance bubble in So Cal.
Congrats to Choreo Cookies, Common Ground, and Team Millenia, for placing 1st,2nd,3rd. Also, remember to check out Kallusive.com in the next couple weeks for the behind the scenes look at vibe hosted by yours truly.
Tell me all of you have seen DJ Steve Porter’s Slap Chop Remix????? If not please watch it .... NOW:
Tell me that is not #$%&in incredible. Now that you watched that! SOOOoooo My friend the last month sends me a text saying hey man I like the slap chop MOONWALK!!?? I’m like what is he talking about. So I look it up and find a breakdancedvd fan has made a combo of my moonwalk lesson and Porter’s Slop Chop! ITs only 30 seconds long but its freakin awesome. I tried contacting ‘toyloverz’ via his youtube channel but no response thus far. I want to thank him for making this and send him some free stuff so hopefully he’ll respond soon. If any of you care to make videos like this with my material or your own parodies mocking my stuff PLEASE DOOOO! I love it and welcome it. The world would be such a better place if we could all poke fun at OURSELVES.
You’ve been asking so here it is FINALLY, the Learn To Groove Trailer. This is a dvd that really focuses on fundamental dance knowledge. Counting hip hop beats, rhythm training, stamina, and isolating different parts of your body to different parts of an 8-count hip hop beat including the downbeat and upbeat. Enjoy:
Also, I decided to upload the original Top 20 Breakdance Moves Trailer as well! Double Enjoy:
I filmed the Learn To Groove dvd in HD but of course the Top 20 in SD so you can see the production difference. Both are available in standard DVD quality. If you are interested in learning more click right…....... HERE!
