House Dancing

I recently began learning about House Dancing since summer of 2009.  I still remember going to the city library for the first time, seeing Danny Dance with his DJ equipment with people dancing around him so freely.  Since that day, House has become one of my favorite styles of dance.  It is still fairly unknown amongst the mainstream culture, but there are many amazing House dancers in the world.  The style itself is very free and soulful, and you have to let your body loose.  The key is to let your body move as one with the beats of the music.  The main groove you must learn is the Jack.  The Jack is the essence of House dancing.  You can have all the moves in the world, but if you don't have the Jack, then you won't have House.

Blu --> Urban Artist

For our personal website assignment we have to create for our Project 1, I decided to choose Urban Arts as my topic.  I have learned a lot about this beautiful genre of art through research for this assignment, and I am happy to say that I am a fan.  The style is so unique and edgy at the same time. 

I came across an artist named Blu, which is just an alias name to cover his real identity.  He utilizes the art form and adds animation to it as well.  I believe he'd paint an image, take a picture, erase it with white paint, and paint the next continuous image.  So it is like a stop-and-go animation.  Can you imagine the time and patience it would take to complete a whole project like this?? I really really respect Blu as an artist, and I am just fascinated with his creativity.

Here's a few of his animated pieces.  Check it out!

MUTO - Blu



BIG BANG BIG BOOM - Blu

Evolution V

I just recently came back from New York/New Jersey about an hour ago, and once again, the east coast never ceases to inspire me.  I mainly went for major Breaking Event called Evolution 5.  The best of the best BBoys and BGirls from all around the world came together to compete in this joyous event.  Even though everyone did not know each other's languages, it was beautiful to see people from different countries interacting with each other through the language of dance.  New friends were made, new inspirations were created. 

It was my first ever major battle out of Utah, and it definitely had an entirely different feel compared to Utah's battles.  For one, the scene is a lot bigger outside of Utah, and people from all around the world were competing.  The dancers were doing moves I would never have imagined possible.  In the finale, it ended up being Maximum crew (Korea) vs. Found Nation (Japan).  It was a very intense and close battle, but Maximum ended up taking the win! The winners get to fly to France to compete in another major battle.

It was definitely a great opportunity I was able to witness, and I am so motivated to practice even harder!  I want to be able to cypher with the rest of the amazing dancers out there in the world.