Breakdance News

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- Break-dance lessons inspiring youngsters to pass on new skills
- The Outrageous Adventures Of Mix Njombwinjo Part 1
- Skyline Students performs Hip Hop Summit
- ‘Planet B-Boy’ documents the globalization of break dancing
- SF Ballet production of ‘Nutcracker’ on PBS
- Seattle artist as stripper with Christmas ornament
- Local bar fraternity has benefit concert

Break-dance lessons inspiring youngsters to pass on new skills
Express & Echo UK 
“They have learnt new skills the primary school children have learnt new skills and the university students have used it as an example for an arts in the community project. Amber Johnson 15 from Ottery St Mary has been a pupil at the PRU since September. She was responsible for creating a comedy robot dance. “It’s been so good. I’ve loved it and have felt respected for the first time” she said. “The children picked up what I showed them really quickly and it’s made me feel so mature. “In school I would never have stood in front of a load of people doing drama and music but at the Grenville the teachers treat you like adults so you feel like you can do anything.
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The Outrageous Adventures Of Mix Njombwinjo Part 1
Lusaka Times Zambia 
Kudenya as they say back home in Chipata. I am sure I had more fans in the pub cheering me than an average Zambian national soccer team. To please them more I went on my head and tried to spin break-dance style. That?s when all the booze actually came to my head. The stunt backfired and I landed against a table full of Mosi and Castle bottles. A dozen or so bottles went crushing to pieces on the floor. The township lads who had been cheering my foolish dancing didn?t savour the idea of all their hard-earned Christmas beer being lost that way.

Skyline Students performs Hip Hop Summit
Skyline View (subscription) CA 
As a kid Animo learned from his brother who was an MC that rapped in their home using his own recording devices to make beats and sounds. Break dancing graffiti DJ’ing and MC’ing is essential for using the media to educate the people. “B-boy student [or break dancing] Barnaby Lee uses the art of break-dancing to “form a group for individuals who are interested in break-dancing around campus. ” Lee believes his mission is to have a place to practice and learn how to break-dance. When Lee first tried break-dancing here on campus with no music near the old cafeteria study lounge teachers and security said he couldn’t break-dance in the area. The area is used for quiet time for students who wish to study and not for break-dancing. “To this Lee said “If a student was tap or ballet dancing would you have said anything to them about it?” Lee said he was quietly studying his dance.

‘Planet B-Boy’ documents the globalization of break dancing
Oklahoma Gazette OK 
Throw in evangelical missionaries the Bush years and EuroDisney and it?s easy to understand why many across the ponds are a bit tired of our crap. CORPORATE BRANDING EXPLOITATION2005 BATTLE OF THE YEARBut while many of our cultural exports are the result of aggressive persuasion through marketing and other means there are some things that cross borders and spontaneously spread more through a shared spirit of goodwill and common interest than a desire to funnel foreign currency back to the Land of Mickey Mouse. ?Planet B-Boy? a documentary about the evolution of break dancing tells the story of one such grassroots adoption of a distinctly American art form and how it has come to belong more to the world than the country that created it. The film screens Friday through Sunday at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art. The story centers on the Battle of the Year an annual break dancing competition held in Austria of all places. It seems odd given the capsulated history of break dancing at the front of the film. In the mid- to late 1970s disco James Brown and boredom came together in Brooklyn N.

SF Ballet production of ‘Nutcracker’ on PBS
San Francisco Chronicle  USA 
“It was a new stage a new audience a new ballet to me” said Kochetkova who trained at Russia’s Bolshoi School and joined the San Francisco Ballet from the English National Ballet. “I found out I was cast for this two weeks before. In that pas de deux you have to walk right into the spotlight you have to dance right away. Taking a break after the daily company class the doll-faced Kochetkova was critical of her sparkling performance after seeing the video a few days earlier. “The film is really beautiful though of course for myself I see things I would do better” she said. Still she was full of praise for the choreography – “It’s really big and I like big movements” – and gratitude to Tomasson: “He really believes in me and believes I can do it better onstage than in the studio” she said. “I felt before him I hadn’t realized the things I can actually do.

Seattle artist as stripper with Christmas ornament
Seattle Post Intelligencer 
Seattle artist as stripper with Christmas ornament. That’s what you do to considerable acclaim from other strippers and your ever-widening audience. You don’t tap ballet tango break dance waltz or pinwheel. When you’re on stage you take your clothes off.

Local bar fraternity has benefit concert
Ball State Daily News IN 
The concert lineup includes Jon Alstott Unusable Signal 2nd Place Acorn Break Dance Not Hearts Gambit’s Disciples Jack of Suede and Walrus. Part of the five-dollar cover charge will be donated to the Co-Op. Pi Sigma Epsilon a professional sales marketing and management fraternity on Ball State’s campus is having the concert for the community and its members Emily Muzzy president of Phi Sigma Epsilon said. Full Circle Arts Co-Op is a Muncie-based non-profit organization that has taken on a number of projects including largely planning and managing the Muncie MusicFest in 2007 and 2008. Brian Kelly a senior accounting major and Phi Sigma Epsilon member who has been working with promotions for the concert said anyone who enjoys music should attend.