Showing posts with label Dance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dance. Show all posts
Friday, June 11, 2010
Proverse - What We Do!
Clip of my homies Alex Nguyen and Tony Tran practicing in front of the Louvre. Enjoy!
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Thursday, April 03, 2008
5 Year Old Korean Dancing Fiend!
Haha, what can I say. Work life has been hard. And I've been under the gun for a long two months. Hopefully I'll be able to post a few blogs each month if I'm lucky. Enjoy!
Monday, January 07, 2008
Kid N' Play - House Party
Now this is more like it. Hip Hop when I remembered it best. It wasn't about popping guns or the cash you got. It was about dancing, girls, and having fun. Peace, love, and Unity. But what I liked most about Hip Hop was the dance. Running Man, Roger Rabbit, Robocop, Cabbage Patch, the Smurf, MR2, Charleston, and all of em'. My signature move was the Wop. And what not a better way to show off Hip Hop in the 90's then the commercialization of it called House Party.
Here is the notorious rap battle between Kid and Play. The verses are pretty cool and are easy to comprehend. Today, you need a whole urban dictionary just to understand some things. HAHA
The infamous dance steps. I know all of you have tried it once in your lives.
Here is the notorious rap battle between Kid and Play. The verses are pretty cool and are easy to comprehend. Today, you need a whole urban dictionary just to understand some things. HAHA
The infamous dance steps. I know all of you have tried it once in your lives.
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
History of House Dancing - 1991
Yo, this is an ill ass documentary. Peep this if you don't know what house dancing is. Gotta love it!
Thursday, October 04, 2007
Wednesday, October 03, 2007
Imperial JB's
Holy Shit. I can't believe I found clips from the Imperial JB's. When I was growing up, these guys were definitely one of my inspirations. These two videos bring back a lot of good memories. They are so crazy. Hopefully I find some more vintage Japanese bboys to showcase on my blog. Enjoy.
Tuesday, October 02, 2007
Hottie Cat - Reggae Dance
I really don't know what to say about this. Cute J girls doing dance hall. I don't know much about reggae dance or whatever you call it, but apparently in Japan there are people who do it. It's more perverted if anything. But that's just me. It's entertaining, I guess. I'm always down for chicks who go upside down and stand onto their heads. HOT!!!!
Saturday, September 29, 2007
Soul Sessions @ Grandstar 9/14/2007
So this is Soul Sessions @ Grandstar. Grandstar is conveniently located in Chinatown which is about a 10-15 minute drive from my house. If you like Hip Hop, Soul, RnB, Funk, Jazz, and everything else in between, you'll definitely like this place. It's a two story joint with live jazz on the bottom and the rest on top. The place kinda has a house party feel to it. Very urban and cool. A good place to go if you want to listen to good music, chill and lounge, and to dance. Grandstar is the joint but the venue we went to is Soul Sessions. It happens every other Friday, the other Friday is something called Firecracker. It's good too. Both are good. It's chill and you can wear whatever you like which is always a plus in my book. Drunk'n Times Rule!
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Chinese MC Hammer
All I can say is this guy is pretty dope. Regardless of how he looks, his dance skillz are pretty nice. And his mom in the background is priceless. Represent for the Chinese!
Wednesday, April 04, 2007
Super Chample - Beauty Girls Dance Battle
Number 1 reason why I'm a Japan-o-phile, lol! I recently saw this episode of Super Chample sent to me by my friend WW. It's freakin good. Japanese chicks battling it out "Hip Hop" style! Reminds me of You Got Served! I really thought Cheeky Clownz had mad energy. Peep it!
crap, youtube!
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
MGM Holiday Party 06 @ Cabana Club
For the first time in my 2 years at Metro Goldwyn and Mayer (MGM) Corporate, MGM decides to throw a holiday party to end the year. I don't know why we never had one before, ummm, maybe because we were bought out, sold, and then retained and rebuilt had something to do with it. Well, whatever the reason may be, I have to tip my hat off to our CEOs. They really know how to throw a party. The secret location of the party was at the Cabana Club. Included in our package were free valet and a free 40 dollar taxi voucher incase you were too intoxicated to drive home. Ohh and the best thing was, free booze and food till 10pm. As you can see in these photos, I was tore up. But I had a romping good time.
My main mission of the night was to have fun and hang with my friends. But, honestly, I wanted to meet some of the hot employees and temps that work in our building that I have not meet before. Sorry to say, I met a few (MERCEDEZ) but there actually weren't many. Either way, I still met some. HAHA, fun times. Hmmm, I hope I didn't have beer goggles. *Scratch* *Scratch* I was sure faded that night, though. Man, thank goodness for Patrick and Pepcid Complete (I’m Asian and I’m missing an enzyme that helps break down alcohol properly). That really helped me out there. And so did the raw beef and mash potatoes. Nice soaking materials.
I should have brought my camera, me thinks! These photos are courtesy of my friends at work and, I must say, either they are crappy photographers or I just look like shit in every photo. Damn, someone should have told me to fix my hair and my eyes from chinkying up. Oh wells, I just hope they throw another party next year. HAHA That’s if I'm still with the department. PEACE!
MGM CREW 2006
Thursday, November 30, 2006
The House of Glam @ Cabana Club
Nov 22nd, me and the fellas roll to the Cabaña Club for some romping good times. Yes, I am wearing a sweater. I was dying in there. And no, I'm not mentally ill. Well, not that I know of. But yeah, the Cabaña is a real cool spot. It was actually my first time there and will definitely not be my last. Glam did this spot justice. What a way to kick off the Thanksgiving holiday. The Cabaña Club has an in door dance area as well as an out door dance area. So if you were baking, like I was, then you'd go out and chill, grab a drink, a little smoke if you smoke, and just enjoy the vibe. There were plenty of hotties to dance with, but Asian girls in LA are kind of harsh. Even if you try, you'd probably get brushed off by most of them. Not all of course, but majority of the Asian fems gives off a snobby demeanor. HAHA But if you’re the man, then you got it easy. Still a challenge for me every time I go out. Till next time. PEACE!
Thursday, November 09, 2006
Halloween Party 2006 - Finally got the damn pictures.
Yeah yeah, Halloween is over. I know. Damn, it was damn fast too. Here are some pictures that I got from Aimee. So this is of us on saturday night Oct something. We all wanted to go out to a costume party so we all went to Century Club. And no it's not 18+. For some reason, that night only, it was 21+. I thought the party was pretty chill. Very chill, infact. I got my dance dance on. The best costume of the night had to go to the random white guy dressed as TRON. So sick. Had a glowing frisbee and everything. Sorry, I'm just not in the mood to write right now. You can tell by all my ramblings. Alright, happy Halloween. Till Next year, suckas!
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
The Room - On the Corner of Santa Monica and 14th.
Sup fam! Alright, so I was lucky enough to have been invited to this little gem located in Santa Monica. Man was it hard to find! The entrance is in the back of some shop and the club next door to it doesn't help the fact. However, this place is f'n off the chain. The spot is called "the Room". From my sources, there is also another "the Room" located in Downtown LA, but the one in Santa Monica has really dope music. I'm not 100% sure on what nights they play dope music, but we went on a Friday. So yes, go on a Friday! So what type of music? Well, they started off with a little Groove Theory (hee hee I love thier one hit single "Tell Me"). You know the song. It goes:-Tell me if you want me to
-Give you all my time
-I wanna make it good for you
-Cuz you blow my mind
-I promise boy that I'll be true
-You're the perfect find
-So tell me if you want me to
Okay back to the topic at hand. They also played a little rare samples from popular tracks and then they hit me hard with the real old school hip hop. Man does it feel good listening to a little Tribe Called Quest now and then.
The spot was chill. The occasion? We went for a friend of mine. It was her bday. Nice choice of venue. The crowd was mixed, just how I like it. And if the women are shitty, you still have the atmosphere (dim red lights) and music to vibe off of. For Kevin and I, it was a real chill spot to grab a few beers and mellow out.
But don't get me wrong. I'm a dancer at heart and we got down. Man, this picture looks hella wierd. I look ummm pretty GAY. Yes two thumbs up for this club. If they keep banging out dope music, pretty people, and fresh atmosphere, then you'll be sure to see me there on a weekly basis. HAHA, okay okay it aint super dope. Just something fresh to check out. Highly Recommended. GOOD price too. Holla!
Group Photo 1
Group Photo 2
Friday, October 27, 2006
7th Annual Culture Shock Choreographer's Showcase
Alright yall, this past Saturday Oct 21st was the annual Culture Shock Choreographer's Showcase. It's an event where all or most of the Culture Shocks come out and do a performance. DC, Chicago, Atlanta, Oakland, San Diego, LA, and many more others were there to represent as well as other teams such as Jabbawockies and Super Galactic Beat Manipulators. I wish I could tell ya that the event was dope however I did not buy a ticket. HAHA Isn't that funny. You get to perform on stage but if you don't have a ticket to the show, you can't watch. I was very broke at the time so I didn't have a chance to get to see all the acts. I did catch a few performances because the venue was kind enough to set up a TV in the back. Hopefully the DVD will come out soon or youtube videos so that I can peep the many awesome showcases that were there that night.
Oh, so if you don't know already. I am in the Culture Shock LA bboy team. And this past Saturday was my very first on stage performance doing choreo. I, actually, am not very good at choreo, I would be catagorized more as a freestyle dancer slash bboy. But yeah, I worked pretty hard to get the steps kinda right. I know I messed up a few times, but hopefully it wasn't too bad. I really thought it went well. I really enjoyed performing and what not and I am very excited about our next showcase in Las Vegas. Oh and seriously, I was soo nervous. I think I said "OH SHIT" twenty times before hitting the stage. It was a super rush.
Before the showcase started, there was a preshow outside were bboys and bgirls and funkstyle dancers and whomever get to come together and dance. It was a super huge cypher with different styles if you think about it. Culture Shock LA represented hard core. We seriously turned that shit out. Here are some pictures of us.
This is the Culture Shock Breakers. I think we have more bboys but I couldn't find all of them. Seriously we looked sick in the circles. LA represented to the fullest.
Here is a group picture of us and a few randoms in the upper left corner. It's all love though, I know everyone wants to be in a picture with me. HAHA but yeah, Culture Shock LA's street team is what your lookin at. HOLLA!
Last thing, I must say it was a helluva an experience. I really enjoyed the time spent together in San Diego. Just getting to dance, chill, party, and do watever made this trip very memorable. Even though I don't remember a thing that happend saturday night. Pass the alcohol, please!
Friday, October 13, 2006
Rino Nakasone
Sup yall. Damn, I've been soo busy with dancin' and breakin' that I haven't had the time to post any of my past adventures. So a few Sundays ago Culture Shock LA was honored to have Rino Nakasone aka Music from the Harajuku Girls come and teach a class. I must say, she's a nasty dancer. Straight old school flavor. Her routine was dope, but too bad I suck at choreo. I pretty much botched the whole ending up. But it was fun and cool nonetheless.
If you guys don't know who the harajuku girls are then you don't watch enough TV. HAHA They are Gwen Stefani's back up dancers for the album Love Angel Music Baby. When I first saw the video Holler Back Girl, it was pretty sick that they used Japanese back-up dancers. If you want to read up more on Rino Nakasone you can check her myspace account http://www.myspace.com/rinonakasone. Add her as your buddy :)
Monday, October 09, 2006
Lindy Hop Collective
Sup folks, it’s that day of the week again. Monday. Hurray! Work! Yes! Fun! Yes! Well, not really. More fun for me some times and not for others. Today is one of those fun days. I'm doing jack diddly at work. Well not necessarily jack diddly; I did happen to browse through youtube.com today. I don't even know what I was looking for. I was searching for some Japanese clips, then I tried searching for some bboy clips, and lastly I searched for Culture Shock clips. Too my surprise, the search brought me to this classic clip from a film called Hellzapoppin'. Dude, these guys are fresh. The whole jazz collab plus the dancers are nasty. Pure enjoyment. So much enjoyment that I did more searches and these are the recommended clips that I found. Enjoy them as I did!
This first clip is from Hellzapoppin' featuring The Harlem Congaroos (dancers, AKA Whitey's Lindyhoppers). The scene begins with workers moving props and finding instruments. They begin with a cool jam session which attracts maids and chefs to come out and dance the lindy hop. My favorite clip!
This clip has very little dancing but the music is outstanding. "Oh shit, I'm a poet and didn't even know it" (that's what Andrew Tran said to me in the Bay). Just check it out. Awesome musicians like legendary Lestor Young on tenor sax, Barney Kessel on guitar (I'm a jazz guitar fan), and Jo Jones on the drums. Also, Marie Bryant kills it on the vocals.
This clip is from the movie Don't Knock the Rock. Who said white folks can't dance. These guys are mean on the dance floor. And the track in the film is on fire. My favorite dancers are the first pair to go out in the circle (he's the one wearing the glasses who trips in his routine, pure flavor).
The last clip I checked out, before going back to do some real work, was from a sound short called After Seben. It stars Chick Webb & "Shorty" George Snowden. I guess from the synopsis they say this clip features the early beginnings of lindy hop. This clip is very cool but not as exciting as the others I have featured. However, there is one particular dancer in this clip that I wanted to point out. His name is James Barton. In this clip he plays the emcee performing in blackface. OMG this guy is freakin the nastiest dancer to live. Just check out his moves towards the end of the clip. He's a straight up bboy. I recognize some of his dance moves to be associated with breakin'. And that pogo action is bonkers. Haha it's crazy. Peep it!
This first clip is from Hellzapoppin' featuring The Harlem Congaroos (dancers, AKA Whitey's Lindyhoppers). The scene begins with workers moving props and finding instruments. They begin with a cool jam session which attracts maids and chefs to come out and dance the lindy hop. My favorite clip!
This clip has very little dancing but the music is outstanding. "Oh shit, I'm a poet and didn't even know it" (that's what Andrew Tran said to me in the Bay). Just check it out. Awesome musicians like legendary Lestor Young on tenor sax, Barney Kessel on guitar (I'm a jazz guitar fan), and Jo Jones on the drums. Also, Marie Bryant kills it on the vocals.
This clip is from the movie Don't Knock the Rock. Who said white folks can't dance. These guys are mean on the dance floor. And the track in the film is on fire. My favorite dancers are the first pair to go out in the circle (he's the one wearing the glasses who trips in his routine, pure flavor).
The last clip I checked out, before going back to do some real work, was from a sound short called After Seben. It stars Chick Webb & "Shorty" George Snowden. I guess from the synopsis they say this clip features the early beginnings of lindy hop. This clip is very cool but not as exciting as the others I have featured. However, there is one particular dancer in this clip that I wanted to point out. His name is James Barton. In this clip he plays the emcee performing in blackface. OMG this guy is freakin the nastiest dancer to live. Just check out his moves towards the end of the clip. He's a straight up bboy. I recognize some of his dance moves to be associated with breakin'. And that pogo action is bonkers. Haha it's crazy. Peep it!
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