The News Review:
- The Dangerous Dance of bama Gates and Crowley
- Seattle break dancers to star on ‘America’s Best Dance Crew’
- Break’n with B-boy Depree at the Verve Dance Studio!
- Break Dance Camp
- It’s break time as B-Boys burn up the floor
- Film Review: Gotta Dance
- Stimulus Bill Funds Go to Art Houses Showing ‘Pervert’ Revues …
The Dangerous Dance of bama Gates and Crowley
Truthdig
They saw a black kid wander from the city onto the campus and followed in hot pursuit to make sure I wasn?t there to bother the white kids. Given the recordings of the 911 calls in the Gates case it is now known that the caller gave two equally plausible descriptions of what she saw. Either there was a break-in under way or the residents were returning from a trip (she noted the suitcases on the porch). But the dispatcher asked confusedly ?What do the suitcases have to do with anything?? It took a citizen to explain that it just might be the resident of the house having difficulty with a lock and not a break-in at all. We now know from her statement and the recordings that Sgt. James Crowley manufactured a conversation with the caller that never took place—using words she never said. Crowley wrote in his report that the witness said ?she observed ? two black males with backpacks on the porch.
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Seattle break dancers to star on ‘America’s Best Dance Crew’
Seattle Post Intelligencer
We’ve had a teen trio and a singing radiologist “America’s Got Talent. ” Now Seattle break-dancing troupe. The group will appear on Season 4 of the popular reality contest when it premieres Aug.
Break’n with B-boy Depree at the Verve Dance Studio!
Artvoice
The Verve Dance Studio is dedicated to the art of B-boying and Hip Hop culture. Verve was started in September of 2005 by B-boy Depree of the Differential Flavor Crew. Since it’s start in 05 the school has transcended dance and has grown into a community center. The Verve Dance Studio has been location for a number of events.
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.
It’s break time as B-Boys burn up the floor
Daily News & Analysis
It’s not just break; it’s break dance” he tells a lad who has just performed his 15-second bit at the centre of the dance floor. The bespectacled slight dancer can easily pass off for a nerd but his body cannot lie. If he sees an outstanding move by a participant he cannot help but reciprocate with complementary moves. It is little wonder then that he is one of the four best B-boy dancers in the world according to the international BC ne Championship organised by Red Bull. n the other side of the club Pelezinho is instructing his batch on getting the slide and freeze right.
Film Review: Gotta Dance
Film Journal
Berinstein delves into the outside lives of some of the participants which lends added interest and viewer involvement. Through it all the message is “Life doesn’t end at 60” and most of the dancers are vibrant reminders of that fact. This is never more apparent than when during a break from performing listening to the boogie-woogie music being played for the younger cheerleaders’ rehearsal Joe suddenly grabs one of his ladies and starts to jitterbug with her. The man has displayed some serious rhythm issues during the hip-hop routines but now reveals a suave easy grace in swing dancing which puts the robotically precise strenuously over-the-top sweaty choreography of the nubile youngsters to shame. The film is technically smooth and well-edited including a snappily fun shopping trip to Macy’s wherein Betsy is made to realize by her supportive fellow dancers that one doesn’t always have to dress one’s age with beautiful results. This small journey of self-discovery even at an advanced age mirrors the larger one Berinstein so fondly addresses here and leaves you with that oh-so-rare but genuine warm and fuzzy feeling. Post a Comment Asterisk (*) is a required field.
Stimulus Bill Funds Go to Art Houses Showing ‘Pervert’ Revues …
FXNews
CounterPULSE received a $25000 grant in the “Dance” category; a staffer there said they were pleased to receive the grant “which over the next year will be used to preserve jobs at our small non-profit. Similarly the director of Frameline the gay and lesbian film house told FXNews. com in an e-mail that their $50000 grant was not to support any program in particular. “The grant is not intended for a specific program; it’s to be used for the preservation of jobs at our media arts nonprofit organization over the next year during the economic downturn” wrote K.