The News Review:
- Into the Hoods: Breakdance gets its big break
- Rik Panganiban’s Blog My next breakdance performance: April 17
- Students dance with ARC troupe
- No-nonsense approach paying off for Canadians
Into the Hoods: Breakdance gets its big break
Telegraph.co.uk – Mar 22, 2008
McIntyre saw Into the Hoods four times in Edinburgh and like Prince felt confident that – despite being far from a conventional West End proposition – it deserved exposure to a bigger audience. “Every musical in the West End has either got a celebrity in it or there’s been a TV show made about it or it’s the remake of a movie that was famous or it’s the music of a group that was famous” says Prince. A glance around the block shows up Dirty Dancing The Lion King The Lord of the Rings and Buddy for a start. Prince can’t believe that she’s sharing the West End with such blockbuster company. “It’s surreal” she says. “I always imagined that doing something like this would be amazing but I don’t know how to feel. I look at the poster outside and tell myself: ‘Feel something!’ But what should I feel?”She should feel pretty proud especially considering that she didn’t start dancing seriously until she was 25 – a ludicrously late start for the industry… All other cultures can evolve why do we have to limit this one?” She has also heard whispers always secondhand about a white girl from Hampshire having “no right” to be making hip-hop but she shrugs them off: “I think we have to be beyond those kind of stereotypes. “After all it’s stereotypes that have blighted hip-hop’s reputation branding what was originally a culture dedicated to good times and self-expression as the domain of gangsters and guns. “Hip-hop’s had a bad press in the past” says Prince “but let’s have a look at how we can break down a few barriers and focus on the life-affirming side. ” Prince admires the positivity of the art form with its social consciousness sense of community creativity and spectacle. She’s seen the effect it can have on young people she has worked with taking them from moody monosyllabic mutterers to bright enthusiastic dancers in the space of a week’s workshops. Prince now runs her own ZooYouth company for seven-to-16-year-olds some of whom appear in the show but it’s not just young people who relish the boundless energy and entertainment of hip-hop as the diverse audiences who saw the show in Edinburgh proved. It’s simple says Prince: “Basically if you want to have a really fun hour and a half and leave with a smile on your face come and see the show.
Rik Panganiban’s Blog My next breakdance performance: April 17
Digital Divide Network – Mar 22, 2008
You can see our last performance playing above. Most of the same dancers are in this performance but we’ve all gotten much better since that performance last November. Here’s the details on the April 17 performance from Pavan:Tickets can purchases for the advanced price of $12.
Students dance with ARC troupe
News 10 Now – Mar 22, 2008
?I wanted the kids to have fun and learn about dance” said Bettina DeBell a special education teacher. Some second and third graders became dance partners and friends with the troupe from the ARC of Monroe County. ?Different members of the dance troupe would share about their different communication systems their disability or their special abilities and they would talk to the group to make some friends and break down some misconceptions about anyone with a disability” DeBell said. “What you want is the kids to want to be with the dancers and see it as a very special opportunity which it is” said Susan Ware of the ARC of Monroe County… ?I wanted the kids to have fun and learn about dance” said Bettina DeBell a special education teacher. Some second and third graders became dance partners and friends with the troupe from the ARC of Monroe County. ?Different members of the dance troupe would share about their different communication systems their disability or their special abilities and they would talk to the group to make some friends and break down some misconceptions about anyone with a disability” DeBell said. “What you want is the kids to want to be with the dancers and see it as a very special opportunity which it is” said Susan Ware of the ARC of Monroe County.
No-nonsense approach paying off for Canadians
Toronto Star – Mar 22, 2008
2 finish and giving Canada a second medal ? thus far ? at the world championships. It is this country’s best showing at the worlds since 1997. Whereas many dance teams are going increasingly glitz and Vegas this tandem opts for demure and classy though featuring tremendous speed and punctuated by breathtaking rotational lifts. There is not a gratuitous gimmick in the entire program. A free skate score of 105. 28 reflected that heads and shoulders above all rivals including the gold medal French duo of Isabelle Delobel and Olivier Schoenfelder. "We were hoping it would come together for us" said Moir reflecting on the twizzle tizzy of a day earlier an error that dropped the couple temporarily into bronze territory… And the Vancouver Olympics are the target. But the couple is doing it their way ? idiosyncratically against the current of showbiz razzle-dazzle in ice dancing. The audience at Scandinavium Arena was oddly still entranced rather than disengaged apparently not wanting to break the hush and intimacy of the mood unfolding. "It’s hard with that program because everyone is so quiet" Virtue observed. "We have to remember that’s a good thing. "This is a team that dances in the traditional style of the discipline while creating fresh manoeuvres that never look forced or foolish. But there is a gamble in such subtlety even with dramatic bits folded seamlessly into the program.