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Brisbane Salsa and Brazilian Dance Congresses 2009

June 3rd 2009 05:42
Brisbane Salsa and Brazilian Dance Congresses 2009
Brisbane Salsa and Brazilian Dance Congresses 2009


Here is another great chance to Latin dance until you drop! I’m flying on Friday to the Brisbane Salsa and Brazilian Dance Congress, an event that will bring some of the best national and international artists, Luda and Luke from Dancing with the Stars, great workshops and ZOUK. Salsa is the mainstream but my heart goes to the Brazilian Dancing; Zouk and Forró are among my favourite styles.

I was at the event last year and had a lot of fun, this year will be even better as it will be at the Mercury hotel right at the CBD.
I can’t wait to be there... The congress runs from 5th to 8th of June.
Hope you can come too! See you there!
Website: www.danceartproductions.net
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Sydney Bachata Festival

April 16th 2009 06:49

Sydney Bachata Festival 2009

If you are a dancer of any kind and never experienced Bachata there is definitely a big gap in your curriculum. This dance is an expression of sensuality, a cry of love for lovers. The perfect event is coming up to supply plenty of bachata to all dance lovers.

It is the second International Sydney Bachata Festival from the 24th to 26th of April, next week. For more information their website is: bachatafestival.com.au
Its one of those hectic weekends of dancing non-stop from Friday to early Monday... performances and parties every night, all night and workshops all day.
The band 4Ever from Orlando, USA will be performing on Sunday.
Bachata is a couple latin dance originated at Dominican Republic and I can’t wait for the chance to dance it to my hearts content.
I’ll be performing with Tony Lara’s LDA BACHATA TEAM on Friday night.
No dancer can be immune to this, come and try!
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Australian Dance Festival

February 16th 2009 03:44
Australian Dance Festival
Australian Dance Festival

If you haven’t heard about the Australian Dance Festival (ADF) you are missing some important dance news. It’s going to be a major milestone in the Australian Dance World and it’s from the same organisers as the Sydney Salsa Congress which is considered to be among the three best salsa congresses in the world.
The ADF will be about all types of dancing and will be divided in 3 days and themes:
Friday 12th June: “It Takes Two” - “Couple Dances".
Saturday 13th June: “All Things Contemporary” : Hip Hop, Jazz, Funk, Break, Popping & Locking, Contemporary Ballet and Broadway!
Sunday 14th June: “A Celebration of Cultures”
The event will have shows, performances and workshops. Any dancer has a chance to perform in the event, training is starting soon and they have all these famous choreographers opening courses.
As a dancer and writer I will make sure I’m there.

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Glen E. Friedman and the Early Days of Hip Hop

February 5th 2009 22:17
Young skinny Ice-T old school hiphop
Pictured above, Ice-T, back in the days when he was skinny and it was fashionable, apparently, to tuck in your Adidas tank tops into your pants.

The picture is from an exhibit by Glen E. Friedman, who was there from the beginning of the early days of hip hop.

Read the Wikipedia page on Glen E. Friedman

Boingboing TV interviewed Friedman at his exhibit, talking about his good times with the early movers of the genre: Ice-T, Public Enemy -even the Beastie Boys.

It must have been heavy times, with all these acts growing in popularity through word of mouth and, at the same time, the negative press surrounding hip hop, especially concerning groups like Public Enemy and NWA.

Well, whatever. NWA is in full effect.

Boingboing TV took their cameras to have a little chat about the hip hop times, when the Beastie Boys were a hardcore group, and Friedman introduced them to Rubin. The makings of a vast sum of money:



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Glen E. Friedman Google Image Search - loads of great photos by Friedman on Google, from his punk and hip hop days, to interesting self portraits.


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Batucada Sound Machine Hit Australia

January 24th 2009 03:06
Batucada Sound Machine

New Zealand's 13 piece hip hop, funk, samba mash-up group Batucada Sound Machine are bringing their crazy Brazilian percussion based performance to Australia for a week long tour this February. As they explain, "Loosely translated, ‘batucada’ means percussive samba jam, which aptly summarises BSM’s musical roots. BSM began in 2003 when five passionate drummers met once a month in the dimly lit lounge bar of Galatos nightclub in Auckland to experiment fusing 'batucada' with more local beats and influences. Before long, a talented group of diverse musicians had joined in and the band had grown to 13 members".

BSM 2
BSM 2

With the individual members of the band involved in various solo and group projects outside of BSM, you might recognise some of them from earlier works, most recognisably in upcoming MC Hazadus showing his own style of soul infused vocals after years of fame in Che-Fu and The Krates.

If your able to make one of these performances then your in for a sweet night, and from what i've heard and seen in their performances locally and in Europe, you might need to get your boogie shoes on for this one.

Batucada Sound Machine will play:

Feb 12 @ East Brunswick Club, Melbourne

Feb 13 @ The Factory Theatre, Sydney

Feb 14 @ Canival In The City, Canberra

Feb 15 @ Becks Music Box, Perth

Feb 28 @ Music Mountain Matakana, NZ

You can check out more of Batucada Sound Machine at:

www.batucadasoundmachine.com

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Zion I and the Grouch - 10 Fingers 10 Toes 10 lbs 10 oz

January 12th 2009 07:17
A few years back, I got tossed this album from an Oakland outfit called Zion I and the Grouch... I had seen a few of their tracks floating around, but had never taken a big, juicy bite.

My review of the album was glowing, especially since it appealed to an ol' grouch like me, surly and wrinkled after years of growing up with a style of hiphop now considered unfashionable.

And now, I'm weary of rappers trying to float an image that appeals to MTV and the pages of whatever novelty music mag is in fashion. Ice Cube is a children's entertainer and RZA is too tired to hold up the Wu-Tang Clan - I'm past my prime and I'm done trying.

That's why Zion I and the Grouch was so appealing, especially this track, "10 Fingers 10 Toes 10 lbs 10 oz", which is, essentially, about being glad to turn 30 and settle down and start a family.



To teenagers, this is explosive, scandalous stuff. Where are the drugs? The random killings? The brand identification? How are you supposed to know what to buy?

No, there's a sense of wise contemplation about this track, from the mention of the fact that he's glad to stick around, despite the fact that a lot of men in his community don't, to the simple, tranquil joy of the chorus, sung in Spanish.

It's because I, too, turned 30, this year, and it's with the same sense of contemplation that I'm looking forward to settling down... the same sense of exhaustion at the idea of going to a club and listening to music that no longer makes me feel like moving. Yes, it's time. Let's go, Grouchie.


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Trace the geneology of the Wu-Tang Clan

December 24th 2008 05:03
Wu-Tang Clan live 2007

It's a satirical piece from The Onion, but, like The Onion does best, there's an element of truth in the story:

Staten Island Historians Piece Together Wu-Tang Clan Geneology

"According to Wilburn, it took trained scholars hundreds of hours to parse out Wu-Tang's complex lineage, with experts in nearly every discipline studying the group's dope oral traditions, as well as its customary and often fresh style of dress. "

At one point, the Wu was so influential that they seemed omnipresent on the radio and MTV... hip hop kids were buying into the kung fu mythology so hard that the Clan even managed to put out a video game:



Of course, Wu-Tang delirium reached its apex when Ol' Dirty Bastard rushed the stage at the Grammys, announcing that Wu-Tang was 'for the children':



... he was one of a kind, a criminal poured into a business suit because of his insane skills on the mic. He wasn't built for this, and even though he wasn't the leader of the Clan, he was its most prized figure, the one that kept the attention on the Staten Island group.

When he died of a heart attack, after diving back into a huge pile of cocaine, that was probably the moment that the world turned the page on Wu-Tang. Let's go out on a Brooklyn Zoo:






*this image is from The Phoenix
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D2MG Christmas Party Sat 20th Dec 2008!

December 11th 2008 12:54
Celebrate the holiday season with us as we bring back the block party and the soul train! D2MG has invited a range of dance schools around Sydney to be a part of our event, including DarrioStreet, Dancekool, Dance Central and Caramell, with DJ Libre on the decks along with many other special guest DJ, MCs and beatboxers to make up one big jam session. Help keep us alive with a $5 donation or more, and feel free to BYO. See you there!

www.d2mg.com

D2MG Christmas Party 2008
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Pharoahe Monch interview

December 5th 2008 06:32
Pharoahe Monch wrapped like a mummy

Cocaine Blunts has a post on Pharoahe with a video interview with the man himself, something that we'd all like to see. I first heard about Monch recently, when I heard his sick cover of "Welcome to the Terrordome", bringing it up a notch, even though Public Enemy already lit that noise on fire.

That's this track:



Cocaine Blunts also has an embedded track, "Ghost Weed Acapella", recorded live this year.

Here's the interview with Monch:



This image is from rap.about.com, the album cover from Desire, Monch's second album, one that was initially ignored but made everyone go 'woah'.

Who is this reincarnated Egyptian pharoah? Do we pay tribute? Or just heed the cries of gun control and open the gates to the Terrordome?
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Movie Preview - CENTRE STAGE: TURN IT UP

October 22nd 2008 03:37
Movie Preview - CENTRE STAGE: TURN IT UP

Turn it up movie poster


Return to the Centre Stage phenomenon with new passions and partners as Sony Pictures Releasing brings the amped-up, high-energy Centre Stage: Turn It Up to cinemas on October 30!

All self-taught dancer Kate Parker has ever wanted to do was perform with the American Academy of Ballet. But when she doesn’t make it after auditioning, she learns that it takes more than precision and perfection to succeed in the dance world. With a turn in a cutting-edge hip-hop club and the help of a good-looking former hockey player, she may just find the passion she needs to make her dreams come true. Peter Gallagher (TV’s “The O.C.”) and a cast of hot up-and-coming stars including newcomers Rachele Smith and Kenny Wormald rock to a new beat in this unmissable sensation!

Starring Rachele Brooke Smith, Kenny Wormald, Peter Gallagher, Ethan Stiefel and directed by Australian filmmaker, Steven Jacobson

Only at the Movies! October 30 For more infomation, visit the official website.

Preview the trailer:

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