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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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