Tonight: Body Rock 2011

Apologizes for the late notice, but tonight (7pm PST) is the annual Body Rock Hip-Hop Dance Competition! Body Rock is one of the biggest competitions of the year, and always showcases amazing talent. This year will be featuring competing crews, including Choreo Cookies, GRV, Sh*t Kingz (Japan), SGBM, Prestige (New Zealand), Kaba Modern, Team Millenia, Dangerous Game (Italy), and MANY more!

The event will be judged by Jet Li (Poreotics), Ellen Kim (Movement Lifestyle), Joe Larot (Jabbawockeez), Free Boogie, Jenny Kita, and Mike Song (Kaba Modern 6)

This year, there will be a Live Ustream of the event. [UPDATE] Show has started. We're live!: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/body-rock-dance-competition

Stay Tuned!

Video: Jabbawockeez on Shake It Up

Disney Channel's 'Shake It Up' keeps on racking up the dance stars. This time they've gotten the original ABDC Champions in Jabbawockeez to make a cameo. Below is the video of their performance on the show, which will air tomorrow (Sunday, June 12th) at 8:30 EST. I don't know if there's more to their appearance, but if anyone actually watches the show be sure to report back on it tomorrow!

Video: IaMmE's path to winning ABDC - highlights from Season 6

IaMmE created a demo reel of their finest moves from America's Best Dance Crew Season 6. Though it starts with footage of some of the injuries, fatigue, and emotions experienced, the dancing elevates the video to a joyous level. On PacMan Youtube. Thanks for the tip, Austin!

Video: Chachi (IaMmE) shows us how to eat a donut

We were so focused on the dancing skills of IaMmE's Chachi that we forgot to post this lesson on how to eat a donut. Now that she gets part of the $100,000 prize for winning America's Best Dance Crew Season 6,  there can be lots more donuts in her future.

Zekeish's Review of ABDC's Finale

The FINALE BABY! (Sorry for the lateness)If it wasn’t for the stupid red carpet pre-show along with the onslaught of commercials between performances, this would have been one of the best episodes of ABDC ever. All of the past champions return with new routines to blaze the ABDC stage once again and of course the headliners being the JabbawockeeZ. I wish that the finale would have been live, so the reactions would not have seemed so forced, but whatever, IaMmE won, so I can’t complain. Thank you guys for reading my reviews all season long, and hopefully I will be back next season. Well, go grab yourself some purple skittles and play some levels of Pacman, I.aM.zEkE-ish and its reviewin tyme. (BTW, I have never held back and I won’t this episode. I'm being extra harsh on the champions mainly because they won their respective seasons. That’s me. Here we go). Click here to read the full review.

SYTYCD Videos: the 4 hiphop dancers in the top 20; choreo by Christopher Scott (LXD) and Sonya Tayeh

So You Think You Can Dance Season 8 picked their top 20 dancers, including 4 who specialize in hip hop: Chris Koehl, Tadd Gadduang, Wadi Jones and Robert Taylor Jr -- click here to see their group performance.  The show that aired on June 9, 2011 featured some stellar choreography including the top 10 girls dancing Sonya Tayeh's interpretation of "Pop, Drop and Roll" by Chonique Sneed (one of America's Best Dance Crew's choreographers), and the top 10 boys dancing to Christopher Scott's (LXD) choreography:

The cost of competing on ABDC: ReQuest scrambling to raise enough money to defend HHI title

Possible bad news for those who planned to attend Hip Hop International to see ReQuest Crew: The New Zealand Herald reports that the girls don't have the $36,000 needed to return to defend their title. 

"Manager Brett Goebel...said the group's funds had been sapped by an appearance on America's Best Dance Crew..Though they were praised by the judges, the cost of competing on the prime time show has them scrambling to make the $36,000 needed to defend their title at the World Hip Hop Dance Championships in Las Vegas from July 26-31....The group gets no Government funding and has to raise all its money from touring and corporate shows, Mr. Goebel said. "If you drive past us and there's a ReQuest car wash on, please drive in. We're the world champs but those funding agencies don't give any money out." If you want to book them, go to their website, and you can follow them on  Facebook

Upcoming Event: MYX TV/KPOP takeover with Poreotics & Movement Lifestyle, June 17-18

MYX TV and K-pop’s top choreographers and dancers have come together to bring “KPOP Takeover“ on June 18-19 in Los Angeles.  Movement Lifestyle choreographers - Shaun Evaristo, Lyle Beniga, Keone Madrid, and Mari Martin -- will be at the convention breaking down dance moves from “the hottest Korean music videos.” In addition, Poreotics (ABDC Season 5 winners) will also be there teaching workshops.

This convention is open to all levels of dancers. And if you don’t feel like learning the dances to top K-pop songs, they also sell tickets for observers. Tickets are on sale now -- Click here for details and to buy your tickets. Thanks for the tip, Chocobopie!

Tell us your favorite performances during ABDC's Season of the Superstars!

Now that America's Best Dance Crew Season 6 is over, it's time to look back and nominate your favorite performances. Leave a comment on what you consider the highlights. Next week, we'll run a survey so that you can vote for your favorites!

Congratulations Zekeish and Alan -- winners of our Elimination Challenge and ABDC Top 4 contests

America's Best Dance Crew Season 6 is over, but there are still some awards to be given out:

• Zekeish won the Elimination Challenge contest with a total of 16 points. His estimate of 55 million was also close in predicting how many votes would be cast during the last week
• Alan won the ABDC Top 4 Contest by predicting the winning order: IaMmE/ICONic Boyz/Phunk Phenomenon/Street Kingdom in Week 5, a week before Teldon, 787 Crew Fan, and ABDC Freak

Zekeish and Alan -- please email BloggingBestDanceCrew@gmail.com so I can get you your prizes: a Tshirt worth up to $35 or a $30 iTunes gift certificate. And thanks to everybody else for playing along!

ABDC6 and the Season Finale = ratings success!

The special 90 minute season finale of America's Best Dance Crew, which included live coverage from the MTV Movie Awards red carpet achieved a 2.1 rating among people 12-34, up 38% from last year's Movie Award's lead-in. 

The finale was also a success for ABDC, with ratings up 17% from the ABDC fifth season finale. It delivered 2.6 million total viewers, up +24% from last season's finale. (Explaining the difference in percentages: rating = the percent of people watching ABDC compared to the total number of people watching any TV show at that time; total viewers = number of people watching ABDC (regardless of how many people were watching other shows).

For the season, ABDC averaged a 1.8 rating among People 12-34, up 13% from the fifth season average.  ABDC delivered 2.1 million total viewers each week, up  17% from season five.  ABDC is Thursday's #1 original cable series with People 12-34.  Congratulations, ABDC team!

Videos: Fanny Pak behind the scenes -- a new member and dance rehearsals

In this video from HouseofCrews Youtube, Fanny Pak announces that Phil is leaving the crew but will be replaced by Preston. The video also mentions FP leader Matt Cady in Poland's So You Think You Can Dance and shows some dance rehearsals. Thanks for the link, Michael C!

Video: Jungle Boogie dance in Jason Derulo's "Don't Wanna Go Home"

Members of Jungle Boogie (ABDC Season 5) appear in Jason Derulo's hit music video "Don't Wanna Go Home" starting at 1:50. Thanks for the tip, Elise 10!

The So You Think You Can Dance Party Room is open - join us!

The Party Room/Critics Corner for So You Think You Can Dance's Las Vegas extravaganza is now open! Join other readers as they transfer their passion from ABDC to SYTYCD, and watch some of our fan favorites -- Hiro, Lil O, and a few other hip hop experts.  IMPORTANT: If you want to write a long comment, write in in NotePad or Word and then paste it into the comments field. Otherwise, all your work may disappear if someone posts something new while you're in the middle of writing.    

After the show is over: The party has just started, so stick around and join many others to praise and complain. Who on this season do you expect to eventually appear on ABDC? Who do you want to win SYTYCD? What would you like to see in future seasons of ABDC?   This is your party --  humor, keen observation and almost everything else (except personal attacks/disrespect not related to the dancing itself,  spam, and obscenity) are expected and welcome.

Video: Quest Crew dances with LMFAO on Lopez Tonight

On June 6, 2011, Lopez tonight featured LMFAO performing "Party Rock Anthem". Their dancers: Quest Crew (ABDC3 champions). Thanks for the tip,Kotsu!

Party room tonight for So You Think You Can Dance -- join us!

Tonight is the first round of the Las Vegas performances and eliminations on So You Think You Can Dance, and we expect to see Hiro (We are Heroes) and Lil O there. This is a good excuse for a party room, so feel free to join us at 8 pm ET.

Please Help Empire Kidz win Guam's Got Talent!

Empire Kidz from Guam was one of our reader's favorite kid crews from the America's Best Dance Crew Season 6 auditions -- click here to watch their audition video.

Right now they have entered a small dance competition on Guam, ironically called "Guam's Best Dance Crew" but they are under a different crew name called the "Doodlekwisps." The crew can win if you vote for them online through www.guam.com (the link is on the TOP RIGHT corner of the website). In order to vote, you have to create an account, which is fast and simple -- I've done it and you can too! You can only cast a vote once per hour. They are currently behind but you can help them catch up!  Voting continues to Saturday June 11. Please help this terrific crew. To help convince you, here's some of their performance on the show: 

Video: Elektrolytes dance on America's Got Talent!

Elektrolytes from Arizona appeared on America's Got Talent on the June 7, 2011 episode and were called "one of the freshest routines I've seen in a long time" by judge Piers Morgan. They are moving on to the Las Vegas round. The crew has also auditioned for America's Best Dance Crew Seasons 4, 5, and 6 and competed at Hip Hop International. Thanks for the tip,Wings!

Video: Instant Noodles Photoshoot

Instant Noodles(ABDC Season 6)  posted some new scenes of some free-style dancing, candid moments, and a photoshoot (not sure what it's for. From InstantNoodlesCrew Youtube Channel.

Video: Quest Crew and Blueprint Crew partying and dancing

Quest and Blueprint Crews danced to Party Rock Anthem with everybody at Tokyo Bar in Quebec on June 4, 2011 (just days after Quest taped their ABDC6 finale performance). Video from MeezyBouahom Youtube Channel.