Plan and simple: if you have a love for dance and a powerful enough squad, you can establish a substantial dance community wherever you are. All it takes is a drive to constantly improve and a little bit of networking. That’s how it worked for SoReal Crew. A successful crew from the 2nd season of … Continued
One of the more prestigious hip hop dance competitions finally came to the south this year. It has been more than a year in the making to bring Prelude to the Southeast. I guess there just wasn’t enough of a hip hop dance scene down here to warrant Prelude making the arrangements to have a … Continued
There is a difference when you dance in college. Maybe it’s the maturity of the dancer at that age, or their enhanced ability to be open to new concepts, or the motivation of the instructor to mold a dancer rather than simply create routines. Whatever the case, when you dance in college you are just … Continued
This last Sunday April 17, 2011 in Lakeland, FL a dance competition was shut down. In the early afternoon, approaching the peak attendance for the Starbound dance Competition at the Polk Theater, the local fire marshal took the stage for a speech that got everybody in the theater up on their feet with full attention. … Continued
Playing the professional game of dance requires a little bit of ladder climbing. Its a dangerous game for teenagers to play because their motivations are not always in the right place. Many girls just want to be Queen Bee for the entourage. Many of the same are unaware of the burdens the crown carries. Even … Continued
I have a severe problem listening to people talk about hip hop. As one of the newest dance forms, there is little formal education on the genre and many people that proclaim themselves experts that have far too little experience to offer anything of value to hip hop. Its for this reason that I am … Continued
The new crews for ABDC have been announced for this season. Here they are with videos and an analysis on strengths and weaknesses: ABDC Blog I can’t say I’m not a little confused on the selection. Then again, I can’t remember a season of ABDC where I haven’t been totally lost with some of the … Continued
We made it through callbacks, an obscene amount of paperwork, and a lot of waiting for season 6 of America’s Best Dance Crew. But as of last week we now know that we won’t be apart of the show… this time around. We have no regrets and feel like the amount of growth we achieved … Continued
In order to break down the anomaly of elite Apocalypse member Josh Librun, you have to preface everything about him with the fact that he has only been dancing true hip hop for a little over 3 years. As one of the top choreographers of the team, he started out with hardly any previous dance … Continued
I made a new friend that I met at the gym during a workout this week. He’s 33 years old, 6 foot, 220lbs with an assortment of metal rods holding parts of his spine and hip together after a devastating car accident several years ago. Looking at him today you would never know. He is … Continued