I am proud to announce the “Back To The Future: Golden Era B-Boy Jam” in association with HipHopFiend.net, UrbanGames and Trackside. To most of you this won’t matter, but to anyone in the UK please try and make it to the first event I have organised, and help support the site. I just thought I’d include this, to show some of what I’m getting involved in under the HipHopFiend.net name offline…
To check out the back of the flyer click here… [Read More..]
“I believe b-boying is the last real element of hip-hop.” Paul “P” Martin of Ireland’s ‘Bad Taste Cru’ tells me. “It really is the grass roots of the culture; the real jams still exist and continue to grow and develop. The music we play harks back to the early days; the culture of the dance is young but very much maturing. The physical language we speak is the essence of hip-hop itself, even more so than the music nowadays.”
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With “Step Up 3D” loose in the cinemas (theaters), false ideas about Hip-Hop dance are everywhere. Luckily Flo has submitted a second installment of his Dance Blog to talk about another real pioneer of the true Hip-Hop dance styles…
Today as part of the initiation to Hiphop dance, I’d like to introduce one of the legends of the culture: Storm.
Storm started dancing in the early 80′s in his native Germany. In the 90′s, he was one of the leading bboys keeping the culture alive when it needed it the most. He has written books, released inspirational videos, performed all over the world, judged legendary competitions.
He has mastered the three main styles of Hiphop dance: breaking, popping and locking! This in itself is an achievement!
This is a video of his latest popping project: ANIMATRONIK
Through College and University, my interest in Hip-Hop was solidified by my involvement in B-Boying. I spent the best part of four years trying to express myself through dancing in University basements, dining halls, community centres and unused nightclubs; I was never the best dancer, and I never expected to be, but I had fun and found my identity as well as gaining a lot of close friends.
It is for these reasons that I hate seeing films like “Step-Up” and “You Got Served”, and average dancers who gain commercial recognition on TV talent shows purely because audiences are uneducated and ignorant of Hip-Hop dance styles.
I have therefore decided that being a blog about “Hip-Hop” I will not leave the dance behind, and want to help to inform people about what Hip-Hop dance styles are, what is good, what is bad, the history etc. [Read More..]
