I totally forgot about this video that my Bestest Brohina and I made from last Xmas. It was for our friend Christine’s school project. PR manager Behi Shamsai realized it was more efficient during economic downtimes to purchase a robot santa as opposed to hiring a human santa. AND its just cooler… Enjoy a bit a robot ridiculousness:
I had the opportunity to do a quick video to help promote LXD’s Oscar performance this last Sunday. If you didn’t catch it keep an eye out for it as itwazzz quite amazing. For this baby, they had painted Chadd gold by the time I arrived and there wasn’t enough paint for my white bod, so I got to play the janitor—YAY! haa. It was fun as always playing around on camera. I know, I know, I should win an oscar for my performance as “Bobby” the janitor in this vid! ENJOY the maddness that is the chaddness, my brobotic robotic sensei:
So the other day I wrote this long blog entry about my amazing experience at Vibe 15. I went to save it forgetting to copy my entry JUST IN CASE and sure enough my OWN CMS logged me out and I lost it all. So I’ll attempt to remember what I originally wrote. First, I was there repping Kallusive and hosting a behind the scenes look at vibe. Be sure to peep the site in coming weeks for the vid. Second, let me state, the level of commercial hip hop choreo has increased to a ridiculous magnitude. The lyric matching musicality and dynamic movements are amazing to watch, especially when squads of 30 to 60 are performing the SAME movements. Mike Song’s piece from his new “family-gathering,” Anbu Black Ops was my personal favorite:
I loved choreo cookies, Kaba Modern Legacy and this piece by Unity is just beautiful, in addition to being a nice break from all the choreo choreo choreo.
As a side note, I do wanna say that I hope I can assist in being a bridge for the very large gap that exist between Street Dancers and Choreo Dancers. It always blows my mind how this kids can move sooo well doing choreo but then when you tell them to just dance, the task proves quite difficult. I also have to say that watching this “bubble” of a dance community in Irvine makes me quite envious of how it must be to have a college experience full of a supportive dance community. I didn’t have that in ATL Shawty but it makes me thankful that I found Totem and Joy my two bboyin sensei’s. Definitely grateful that I at least experienced the community that Totem built even if now where near the size of the dance bubble in So Cal.
Congrats to Choreo Cookies, Common Ground, and Team Millenia, for placing 1st,2nd,3rd. Also, remember to check out Kallusive.com in the next couple weeks for the behind the scenes look at vibe hosted by yours truly.
Tell me all of you have seen DJ Steve Porter’s Slap Chop Remix????? If not please watch it .... NOW:
Tell me that is not #$%&in incredible. Now that you watched that! SOOOoooo My friend the last month sends me a text saying hey man I like the slap chop MOONWALK!!?? I’m like what is he talking about. So I look it up and find a breakdancedvd fan has made a combo of my moonwalk lesson and Porter’s Slop Chop! ITs only 30 seconds long but its freakin awesome. I tried contacting ‘toyloverz’ via his youtube channel but no response thus far. I want to thank him for making this and send him some free stuff so hopefully he’ll respond soon. If any of you care to make videos like this with my material or your own parodies mocking my stuff PLEASE DOOOO! I love it and welcome it. The world would be such a better place if we could all poke fun at OURSELVES.
Here it is in all its 30 seconds of glory:
Hey Party People!
You’ve been asking so here it is FINALLY, the Learn To Groove Trailer. This is a dvd that really focuses on fundamental dance knowledge. Counting hip hop beats, rhythm training, stamina, and isolating different parts of your body to different parts of an 8-count hip hop beat including the downbeat and upbeat. Enjoy:
Also, I decided to upload the original Top 20 Breakdance Moves Trailer as well! Double Enjoy:
I filmed the Learn To Groove dvd in HD but of course the Top 20 in SD so you can see the production difference. Both are available in standard DVD quality. If you are interested in learning more click right…....... HERE!
HAPPY HAPPY NEW YEAR from Breakdancedvd.com!!!! May your 2010 be full of incredible memories, health and well-being, financial improvements, and full of a new array of dance moves. Speaking of dance moves. I spent my New Years this year at Home in the ATL SHAWTY! If you’re anything like me, you love dancing at the club and it was sooooo packed (as usual) that my friends and I just ended up doing obnoxious moves like the body roll all the night long!!! I realized how powerful the body roll really is. Not to mention the face that alot of people really can’t properly perform the body roll. You know, the body roll is really a necessity if you wanna do isolations like waving and of course “the sexy dance.” I thought for sure I was going to be punched by some dood for body rolling but in fact, the opposite happened. I was body rolling it up and doods, sometimes after slight or even extended hesitation, would join in and ladies were lovin it. So this New Years, I salute you—SIR BODY ROLL. Thank you for bringing happiness and smiles to people around me on New Year’s Eve via your mastery of obnoxious yet hilarious bodily movement.
-Ace
p.s.
If you guys want me to teach a body roll tutorial… just let a brotha know. In the meantime check out the new Learn To Groove Dvd for some helpful basic club dance moves. WERD!
Let me begin with a HUGE THANK YOU SO MUCH for all of your support over the past couple years whether it be via purchasing my products, sending me compliments on youtube, creating response videos, and most importantly, letting me know that many of you are really learning and improving your dance skills. At heart, street dance is my number one passion and Breakdancedvd has provided me a venue to expose people to this art form.
With that baby said, Happy Holidays everyone!!! The countdown is here for the 2010 or I mean the 210 or i mean 010 or THE TEN! I don’t know what to call it yet, feeling 210 at the moment out of the above options. I do know that a great New Years resolution is learning to dance and I believe I may have something that can help.
I want to welcome the new year in with some very exciting changes including a new basic hip hop dvd called Learn To Groove (add url link to dvd), a revamped more interactive site and next year even more tutorials. I haven’t posted any new instructional material in quite some time and I want to let all of you know that IT IS coming. This past year I have been quite busy working in the industry and not to boast but it helps for you to know that I landed a Maxwell House International commercial, a Burger King National Commercial in addition to dancing for the Groovaloos and being invited into Jon M Chu’s amazing crew, THE LXD (thelxd.com). All of this, while further studying street dance art forms such as Breaking, Locking, Popping/Robot, New Jack Swing. My studies include learning from masters, but also includes developing techniques to better teach these art forms to beginners.
I better stop myself now before I write an essay! Once again thank you all for your support and I hope you’ve all had a wonderful holiday season up to this point and I wish you all a Happy New Year filled with the gift of DANCE!
The website is currently being updated and I can’t wait to be able to better respond to to all of your feedback, comments and questions via this new blog.
