The News Review:
- Break Dance Camp
- Q & A with The New Boyz
- So You Think You Can Dance: The Top 8
- Break The Mold: an inspired artists’ collaboration
- Barney: Full-figured folks make an impact on TV
- ’500 Days of Summer’
- Dads pushed out of their comfort zone to join daughters’ dance class
Break Dance Camp
Boise Weekly
1) learning to break dance at the camp co-taught by Jon Swarthout of TrICA and Kevin Chapton from Boise B-Boys. The camp starts with the history of breakdance in America and proceeds to teach the future breakers how to come up with their own unique moves. n Saturday the campers slap down some cardboard for an old school breakdance style performance at the Farmers Market with The Boise B-Boys and live music by Boise Rock School. Call 208-484-0142 to reserve a spot.
Q & A with The New Boyz
Examiner.com
Ben J: Jerkin’ is a movement a culture it’s something we do for fun. If I had to explain it in one word I would say groovin’. It’s basically like a re-make of the break-dance but smoother. Legacy: It’s something new. It’s pretty much like break-dancing and how that energy was. It’s like that all over again.
So You Think You Can Dance: The Top 8
Poptimal.com
It?s not as emotionally investing as his last piece which is why I probably don?t like it as much. But it is genuinely great. And it showcases everyone?s unique style. Evan and Janette do a Sonya jazz routine.
Break The Mold: an inspired artists’ collaboration
Examiner.com
I had several friends in it who I know are talented but it seemed like one of those backyard shows where people get together and ‘try’ stuff out. The show lasted under an hour and featured ten acts that included music theatre jazz and contemporary dance opera pop and Irish dancing. There was not a weak performer in the whole group. Erin McCracken and Angela Polk started the night off boldly with their brassy candid rendition of Scott Alan’s song “I’m a Star” accompanied by Stephanie Layton on piano. Who needs to watch So You Think You Can Dance on TV when you have Missy Wujek and Brock Mattacchione to enlighten Emily Bufferd’s innovative choreography? The beautiful duo made everything seem easy as they danced to Greg Tannen’s sweet song “It’s You” with Pablo Usandivaras on bongos. When I saw this next act in the program I had my doubts.
Barney: Full-figured folks make an impact on TV
San Jose Mercury News
It’s a trend fueled by the rousing success of NBC’s “The Biggest Loser” a reality series that champions large people who conquer their weighty issues. ther shows in the genre include “Dance Your Ass ff” an xygen reality series that has hefty contestants busting some moves and losing weight and “Drop Dead Diva” a lighthearted drama from Lifetime about a skinny bimbo who dies and wakes up in the body of an plus-size lawyer (Brooke Elliott). And then there’s “Ruby” the absorbing Style channel docu-series that in its second season continues to follow the exploits of 300-pound-plus Ruby Gettinger as Advertisement yld_mgr. place_ad_here(“adPosBox”); she strives to lose weight and find balance in her life. More than a decade after Camryn Manheim’s famous “This is for the fat girls!” Emmy acceptance speech television is waking up to the fact that the nation is comprised of more than Barbie and Ken dolls. At last full-figured viewers can turn on their TV sets and see people who look like them — other than the token fat guy in a lame sitcom.
’500 Days of Summer’
Independent Collegian (subscription)
Deschanel who is lead singer in a band called She & Him even has her own track in the film. It is a cover of The Smith?s song ?Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want. ?Webb adds a lot of creativity and fun to this film with a musical dance number in a park. This scene occurs right after Tom spends a night with Summer and he is so happy that he dances with fellow pedestrians as he walks to work. An animated bird is thrown into the dance number to add to the fairy tale mood. To show Tom trying to win Summer back there is a split screen segment with one side showing Tom?s expectations of what would happen at the party she invites him to and on the other side of the screen is what really happens. This effect was used very well and when Tom?s expectations don?t meet reality it is easy to feel just as disappointed as Tom.
Dads pushed out of their comfort zone to join daughters’ dance class
Centre Daily Times
The guys grab the girls with both hands and swing them high. It’s a classic move one that every little girl comes by naturally. The girls break out into big smiles every time. Herron says he’s glad the dance didn’t include any major technical dance moves. There are no big leaps or fancy turns. But he says the dance studio sometimes felt “more like a weight room” as they practiced lifting their partners. Todd Gainey who danced with his 6-year-old daughter Amber says swinging his pint-sized partner around definitely helped him get in shape.
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