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Cool kid got moves

Posted by Anna on May 12, 2008

This is a great video, this is 2 boys in a talent competition. You know the little one looks up to his big bro as if he was Moses and follows his instructions as though they were in fact part of the 10 commandments.

Hey, Great job boys.

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All I can say is GO LUKE!

Posted by Anna on May 12, 2008

This takes some nerve, and Luke you go for putting it out there and allowing us to watch. keep on dancin

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Online dance battle

Posted by Anna on May 12, 2008

Proof that slippery clothes and slippery floors are a formula to cool dance videos. I am talking about the intro to this dance battle with the clips of the dancers slidin across de floor from a promo of sorts for Step Up 2. This is the Online dance battle with a good amount of hip hop dance moves. And, these fools have the hip hop flipping midget. Can’t beat that with a stick.

The story behind this “dance off” video is a bit long, but here it is…

Miley Cyrus and Mandy Jiroux GET SERVED by
The ACDC (Adam/Chu Dance Crew) and a host of ALL STARS in this epic dance collision.

Jon M. Chu (Director of Step Up 2 The Streets) and Adam Sevani (Moose in Step Up 2 The Streets) along with their other Step Up 2 cast members and other ACDC recruits battle back at Miley Cyrus and Mandy Jiroux in this epic online dance battle that has taken YouTube by storm.

“M&M came back strong, now we get to show what we got”

HISTORY:
April 10, 2008
Jon M. Chu and Adam Sevani challenge Miley and Mandy to “The Biggest Online Dance Battle in YouTube history”. The rules are…there are NO rules. both crews are allowed to do whatever they want, however they want. Jon and Adam name their crew the ACDC (Adam/Chu Dance Crew). They release their first battle video.

April 15 2008
Miley and Mandy respond with a giant video to Madonna and Justin Timberlake’s song, “4 Minutes”. In 24 hours their video gets OVER A MILLION hits and become an instant YouTube classic. It gets posted on Perez, Access Hollywood, Yahoo News, Ellen etc. They even recruit one of Step Up’s own to be in their video (Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan).

April 28, 2008
Adam and Chu release a teaser for their response to the Miley and Mandy video. It sets a date and time for the release of their next installment, “April 30th 9pm PST.” Buzz grows.

April 30, 2008
There is an ONLINE frenzy on the ChuPictures youtube page where the fans have gathered for the live release of the battle video. Chu’s youtube triples it’s views in twenty minutes before the video has even been uploaded. Technical difficulties lead to the delay of the video release for 1 hour. Frenzy only gets bigger.

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Step it up and dance - Bravo new dance reality series

Posted by Anna on April 7, 2008

So last night I watched the new Bravo show “Step it up and Dance”. The show just started a week back which brings together 12 dances from around the world and puts them into a dance off. Here is the promo for “Step it Up and Dance” from Bravo TV.

At first, I really did think the show would suck, from the previews it looked a bit silly. Male ballet dancers doing hip-hop? But after watching for about 15 minutes, I gotta say, I really got into it. It did not take long for all the reality TV drama to get started. Before the competition even begins, one of the women tears a muscle and goes home. Now there are only 11 contestants before they even begin eliminations.

Unlike any other reality show I watch, this one did elimination a bit differently. They had a short freestyle dance off and Jamie King split the dancers into 2 groups, the stronger freestyle dancers and the weaker ones. The dancers in the “strong” group were now dancing for the win, while the weak group dancers were  dancing to stay alive and not get eliminated. So basically, no one in the “weak” group could win and no dancer in the “strong” group could be eliminated. So it really sucked when Cody, who was in the “weak” dance group did so well and was told had he been in the “strong” group, he most likely would have won. Janelle winner of Step it up and dance episode 1Remember… they picked the groups from a short little freestyle dance off to begin with.

The winner was Janelle, who did a good job, but I do not think it was great. Her facial expressions during her solo dance routine looked horrible to me. She looked angry and ugly. Being passionate is one thing, but this was way over the top. I wish I had a video, as soon as I do, I will post it.

Another show fave is James and poor Adrianna got sent home. She too got the short end of the deal by being in the “weak” dance group since one of the girls in the “strong” group, Jessica, really screwed up badly and even left the stage DURING the dance sequence. Yep, everyone is dancing, Jessica gets lost and runs away. Jessica would have been eliminated had she not been in the top group.

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Step Up - the dance movie

Posted by Anna on April 7, 2008

Step UpI really love this opening sequence for the movie step up. Not a new movie at all(2006), but available on DVD now and Step Up is a great dance flick that showcases many different styles with a great cast of dancers and choreographers. And yes, a good amount of Dirty Dancing. Directed by Anne Fletcher, the movie has a simple plot and maybe overdone plot about following your dreams, and of course, being from the wrong side of the tracks while trying to go from criminal loser to top dance “”winner”, but who cares, this flick is all about the moves and the dance and this cast dances their butts off.

This is the cast below…

Channing Tatum … Tyler Gage
Heavy D … Omar
Jenna Dewan … Nora Clark
Damaine Radcliff … Mac Carter
De’Shawn Washington … Skinny Carter
Mario … Miles Darby
Drew Sidora … Lucy Avila
Rachel Griffiths … Director Gordon
Josh Henderson … Brett Dolan
Tim Lacatena … Andrew
Alyson Stoner … Camille

In 2007 the film won a Teen Choice award.

From IMDB, the plot goes like this…

In Baltimore, the troublemaker and street dancer Tyler Gage lives with his foster parents in an Afro-American lower class neighborhood. His best friends are Mac Carter and his little brother Skinny Carter and they use to hang around together, going to parties and stealing cars. After being expelled of a party, the trio breaks in the Maryland School of Arts and commits vandalism, destroying the stage. Tyler is arrested and sentenced to 200 hours of community service in the school and Director Gordon assigns him to help the janitor cleaning the place. One afternoon, the ballet dancer Nora Clark sees Tyler dancing in the parking area and when her partner Andrew has a strain and Tyler offers to help her in the choreography, she accepts the offer; they rehearsal and become close to each other while Tyler becomes friend of the students Miles Darby and Lucy Avila. When Andrew returns, Tyler that is known for quitting everything he starts gives up dancing and leaves Nora alone. After an incident, Tyler has to decide to follow his dream or return to his life of rebel loser.

Anyway, if you love dance, don’t miss this flick.

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Dance evolution for the masses

Posted by Anna on March 27, 2008

Before you play this one, you gotta watch the other 2 dance evolution sketches below.

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Dance evolution remix

Posted by Anna on March 27, 2008

Too funny, Optimus Prime takes us through the ages from Elvis to Eminem in a tribute to the comedy sketch dance evolution.

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Dance evolution

Posted by Anna on March 27, 2008

 This is amazing, this youtube video has been viewed over 79 million times. this is dance evolution with comedian Judson Laipply showing us how hip he is by dancing every dance from the last few decades.

Remember how many of these you have done!
Judson Laipply is dancing 

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Heather does the dance

Posted by Anna on March 24, 2008

heather_slapdance.gifWill Heather now get her own show? any bets on this one. For anyone who does not know, Heather is the awsome stripper from Rock of Love 1 with Brett Michaels who lost, but got so popular that they seem to keep bringing her back!

We see this trend in reality TV where the losing contestants get their own “Love” shows… hey NY did it in Flavor Flaves show and now she has 2 seasons going.

anyway, Heather is a character, a much better one than sorry, aging, pig (show me boobies), is that a wig, Brett Michaels. Yep… we shall wait till next season to see. Hopefully Brett will be out and Heather will be in in the “Rock of Love” VH1 reality house.

heather shows stripper boobies dance

Here is the Miss Rock of Love Heather with I hope you brought an extra liver bitches!

rock of love heather

Heather, you go with your bad self…girl!

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