Ill Moves: Hip Hop Dance

All World Dance Has Launched!

I've been saying All World Dance was about to launch since late last year.  Just took me a minute to get to it but it's here now!

It's a site focused on dance across genres and across national boundaries, though the U.S. will tend to dominate due to their media machinery.  But I'll keep working on expanding coverage.

Yes, there's hip hop dance but there's also coverage of ballet, modern dance, dance on tv, dance movies, dance games and all sorts of other stuff.

Check it out!

Merce Cunningham Dies: A Giant Passes

I just found out that Merce Cunningham died Sunday night. No, he doesn't have much at all to do with hip hop dance but he was one of the great figures of modern dance and someone who all serious dancers should know about and all choreographers can benefit from considering more closely:

"Mr. Cunningham ranks among the foremost figures of artistic modernism and among the few who have transformed the nature and status of dance theater, visionaries like Isadora Duncan, Serge Diaghilev, Martha Graham and George Balanchine."

I studied modern dance in college from 1977 to 1982. I saw Cunningham's company a number of times over the years and even took a master class with him when I was an undergrad. As a young choreographer, he was one of my biggest heroes.

RIP, Merce.

Official Site: Merce Cunningham Dance Company

Ill Doctrine: For Frosty Freeze

Ill Doctrine: For Frosty Freeze

Jay Smooth:
"My esteemed colleagues miri park and joe schloss take a moment to remember Wayne "Frosty Freeze" Frost, who introduced breaking to the masses in Flashdance (though I remember him best for Style Wars)."

NYOIL Video Dedicated to Frosty Freeze

• NYOIL pays respect to International Breakdancing [Dedicated to Frosty Freeze]