Video: Pacman (Phillip Chbeeb) and Moon: Their tribute to Houston

Phillip Chbeeb (So You Think You Can Dance alum, Marvelous Motion) and Moon created a dance tribute to Houston. From thePacman Youtube Channel. Thanks for the tip, Niko!

Video Recap for World of Dance San Diego and info on upcoming WODs (Season Fries, anyone?)

WORLDOFDANCETOUR Youtube produced a recap video showing We are Heroes (ABDC4 winners), the competitors, the crowd, and the action. Like what you see? Then plan to attend upcoming World of Dance (or WOD affiliate) events in Viejo, Boston, Chicago, and/or Honolulu -- info here.  ABDC5 alums have been telling me some of the planning for a Seasoned Fried performance in Honolulu with members of 7 of the 9 competing crews -- I really wish I attend that one!!

Video: Kaba Modern Legacy at Urban Funk in Melbourne Australia

Kaba Modern (ABDC Season 1), Super Cr3w and others performed at Urban Funk in Melbourne Australia in August 2010. This video comes from bkodeTV Youtube Channel. <

Video: Royal Flush's Dakota Smith dances "Find Your Love"

Dakota Smith from Royal Flush (America's Best Dance Crew Season 5) created a dance drama called "Find Your Love", posted on his dksmithroyalflush Youtube Channel. Later this year, Royal Flush will be performing at World of Dance Chicago, as part of a larger Seasoned Fries group at World of Dance Hawaii (more on this soon!) and in workshops in Louisville, KY. Also, Dakota has a principal dancing role in the upcoming remake of "Footloose"!

Upcoming events: 9/17 and beyond

9/17: Quest Crew with Rock the Vote in Hollywood
9/17-25: Hype 5-0 in NY: 9/17- Club performance at Skat Productions; 9/18-workshop and performance at Alvin Ailey Extension;  9/25- Steps on Broadway workshops. More details soon at Hype5-0.com
9/19-11/9: Quest's Dtrix, Bboy Jose Ruiz, krumper Russell Ferguson and a dozen other phenomenal dancers tour the US with the So You Think You Can Dance tour; check to see when they'll be in your area
9/18: We are Heroes workshop at Stylz dance studio in Covina, CA 
9/18: Heavy Impact and Academy of Villains among the performers at Public Display IV in Sacramento
9/19: Poreotics workshop in San Diego 
9/24: BreakEFX competing at So Colorado Can Dance? at The Collective near Denver and appearing at a JabbaWockeeZ pre-party at Castlemens in Denver
9/24: Hype 5-0 at Boogiezone in Roselle Park, NJ
9/25: Static Noyze at Regent Theater in Arlington, MA
9/25: BreakEFX and JabbaWockeeZ perform at Wells Fargo Theater in Denver
9/25: Beat Freaks perform at PETA gala in Hollywood
9/25: Swagger Crew perform and judge at Filipino Pride Day in Jacksonville, FL
9/26: Hype 5-0 at I am Phresh Workshops in Philadelphia
9/26: Quest crew at Asian Culture Day in Los Angeles 
9/26: Bollywood Funk performs at Endangered I View Closing Night Gala in New York
9/27: Beat Freaks perform at We are Golden benefit in Los Angeles
9/28: Quest Crew and Kaba Modern at Rutgers University in NJ. Note: you HAVE to go to an art exhibit the day before to receive the (free) ticket to see the show on the 28th. Details on this link.
10/1: We are Heroes workshop at BoogieZone Torrance 
10/7: Kaba Modern at Dance-a-thon at UC Irvine
10/7- whenever: MUS.I.C. starring JabbaWockeez, with Super Cr3w appearing also, opens an extended run in Las Vegas at the Monte Carlo
10/16: Beat Freaks, Kinjaz (formerly known as Anbu Black Ops), Choreo Cookies, and a bboy battle between Dtrix vs. Lil Demon on tap for Enkore Dance Competition in Long Beach, CA

 Leave a comment if you want to add to this calendar for this period or in the future. Thanks!

Video: VERY entertaining video of Rhythm City on Chinese TV

Rhythm City (America's Best Dance Crew Season 4) performed in the US. Pavilion at the World Expo Shanghai during Summer 2010. They also appeared on Chinese TV during their stay. I'm not sure what's going on in much of this video, but it's a hoot. Click here to watch. Warning: slow load.

Video: HomeGrown perform at SoReal Studios Showcase

Though SoReal Cru is no longer performing with the members seen in America's Best Dance Crew Season 2, some of the original members are still helping run SoReal Studios Showcase. Here's a performance of the group HomeGrown at showcase in August 2010 from the Kwantran Youtube Channel (which has other videos from the event). Thanks for the tip, Hi!

Cool video called "Robot Symphony" to promote Oct. 2 Keep it Live street dance event in LA

"Keep It Live" is a new street dance competition starting up in southern California. The first jam is on Sat, Oct 2 and will be held in Norwalk, California. There'll be a 1-on-1 poppin' battle, a waacking showcase, and special surprises in store. This first event will be 3pm-8pm on Sat, Oct 2, 2010.  More details can be found on Keep It Live's Facebook community.

To promote the event, Calvin Leung created a non-narrative musically-driven video called "Robot Symphony."

VietNamTheworld and Kaba Modern Legacy -- a brilliant partnership

Ambitious Alex, Barry Goods, Tony Tran and Trandrew of Kaba Modern Legacy premiered their latest choreography set at Singapore’s annual Night Festival in July 2010.

I am reposting this to help spread the word about the group that helped sponsor this event.  This is one of many superb videos that can be found at VietnamtheWorldTour.com. From their website (which I encourage you to visit): "Viet Nam The World Tour is a movement of creative thinkers, artists, writers, performers, filmmakers, documentarians and cultural producers whose creative engagements attempt to challenge a global status quo...It exists as a series of live performances and a collection of media, photographs, films and writings that can be found online. These documents give proof and life to a movement that transcends national borders and ideas of nation-hood; a movement that brings together artists and a variety of art forms to celebrate the spirit of creative energy...it is a brand that uses the creation of art to inspire ideas and more art."

New Documentary on Hip Hop Dance available on DVD - Moving in the Moment

The GV Documentary Series on underground HipHop culture just released a DVD  called "Moving in the Moment." I haven't seen the DVD, but other documentaries in the series have received praise for being thoughtful, honest, and less exploitational than many films addressing hip hop topics. It's available now  from Amazon and Netflix. Here's their promotional video:

Video: Porche from Beat Ya Feet Kings sings! - rough draft for your consideration!

Porche of Beat Ya Feet Kings (America's Best Dance Crew Season 4) posted a rough draft (this is NOT the final product, folks!) of a song called "Walk Up in the Club" that she wrote, which was produced by Cortez Farris.  It's on her Queenpbyfk Youtube Channel.

Enter Week 10 of ABDC Master Mix Contest now!

We're at Week 10 of our 12-week ABDC Master Mix Contest, completely created by Dirtface X, and we're down to 3-second clips! In this variant on Name that Tune, our video contains a sample of an ABDC Master Mix, followed by a judge's comment about the routine. Your challenge: identify the tune AND the crew who performed it. You can use the tune name announced by Mario Lopez, instead of trying to identify the name of the exact song in the clip.. The mixes were prepared by District78.com (though only the Season 5 mixes are currently on their website). Full episodes of the programs can be found on MTV.com. Whoever can correctly identify the most routines (crew and song title) will be the winner.  Click here for all the rules. NOTE: I'm only accepting the first answer you send in (no changes) so take your time to get it right the first time!

For those of you who have trouble watching the videos, here's the judge's comment.  Shane Sparks: "Everything was sexy..."

Please send all entries to ABDCContest@gmail.com. MAKE SURE YOU USE THE SAME EMAIL ADDRESS EVERY TIME SO I CAN TRACK AND SCORE YOUR ENTRIES PROPERLY! All entries for Week 10 must be received by midnight on September 19. 

Video: Beast Mode open for Ray J

Beast Mode Crew opened for Ray J at the Highlands Club in Los Angeles on August 20, 2010. Video from BeastModeCrew Youtube Channel. If there's a new ABDC season, I REALLY hope Beast Mode auditions!

Short and sweet video of Brian Puspos at workshop

Short but sweet: Brian Puspos dancing at the Holy Family Church in August 2010. From Babybooangel9 Youtube Channel:

Video: Ringmasters dance at Freak the Bellz

We haven't seen a new performance by Ringmasters for a while now, but they were back in their usual unusual form at Freak the Bellz. They also have a great intro from Beat Freaks. Video from Pacific Rim.

ABDC Master Mix Week 9 answer: Status Quo dancing to "Hey Baby (Jump Off)"

This week, the 5 second clip featured America's Best Dance Crew Season 1 runners-up Status Quo dancing to "Hey Baby (Jump Off)" performed by Bow Wow and Omarion. Almost everyone who entered this week got it right, and there are still 50 people with perfect scores!

Here's the clip again, followed by Status Quo's performance. Thanks again to DirtfaceX for creating this contest and all the videos. And come back tomorrow of the next challenge -- we're down to 3-second clips from now on!

Video: Heavy Impact at Rock the Beat

Heavy Impact (from ABDC Season 5) were among the star performers at CF Academy's Rock the Beat Show on August 22, 2010. Video from HeavyImpactCrew Youtube Channel (which contains several other videos you should watch!)

Video: ABDC and hip hop Who's Who show up for Freak the Bellz

Pacific Rim assembled a montage from Freak the Bellz, including runway modelling of the new Tshirt, interviews, and performance clips. America's Best Dance Crew alums featured: Beat Freaks, Hype 5-0, Ringmasters. And, there are MANY more LA-area dance luminaries stopping by to talk, model, and dance. Thanks for the clip, DirtfaceX!

Student project: Opening titles for an imagined JabbaWockeeZ documentary

Reader the4got10one is a student in Digital Media at an Australian university. One of his recent class projects was preparing opening titles for an imaginary documentary about the JabbaWockeeZ. I'm especially impressed in that he was limited in how much actual video he was allowed to incorporate. What do you think?

Video: JabbaWockeeZ interviewed about changes to their Las Vegas Show - "MUS.I.C on steroids"

As reported earlier this week. JabbaWockeeZ show MUS.I.C. is moving to the Monte Carlo Hotel in Las Vegas as of October 7, 2010. The show will run for an indefinite period on Tuesdays through Saturdays at 9:30 PM. You can now buy tickets at the Monte Carlo website.

Pacific Rim talked to JabbaWockeeZ members at the recent Beat Freaks/Hellz Bellz event. Among the discussion -- they've added some new routines to MUS.I.C.  to encourage their fans to return to the show.

Higher-quality video of Hypeotics performance at The Movement

Hype50TV posted a high quality video of the recent collaboration of ABDC5 crews Hype 5-0 and Poreotics (aka Hypeotics) that was performed at the Movement on August 28, 2010. Thanks again for the clip, Draz!

Congratulations to DancePlug's 'Spark Your Career' Grand Prize winner -- Johnny Burgess!

DancePlug.com announced the Grand Prize winner in their Spark Your Career contest to help aspiring dancers. Johnny Burgess -- a hip hop dancer from Jackson, MS-- wins a pass to the Monsters Convention as well as all the other prizes given to the weekly winners. And, here's wishing Johnny and all the other entrants success in their dancing careers!