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.
I 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.
