Ill Moves: Hip Hop Dance

The LXD: In the Internet Age, Dance Evolves

The LXD: In the Internet Age, Dance Evolves

Last year at the annual TED conference, the Legion of Extraordinary Dancers, aka The LXD, performed in between talk by the organizer, director Jon M. Chu, and profiles of the dancers. Great footage of live hip hop dance, some of it to other music styles!

Available on Amazon: Jon M. Chu

Related Hip Hop Dance Coverage:
Step Up 2 The Streets DVD Out Tomorrow

Over at netweed: Hip Hop Albums ~ Movies ~ Videos

The ART of Teknique: Lil Krumpin' Kids

Lil Krumpin' Kids

These kids define the meaning of ill!

Find The ART of Teknique on Facebook.

Over at netweed: Hip Hop Albums ~ Movies ~ Videos

Naledge Challenges You to Eat to a New Beat

Naledge of Kidz in the Hall Accepts the Challenge

To find out how you can enter the contest and maybe grab some loot, check out:

Naledge of Kidz in the Hall Joins Eat to a New Beat Dance Off

Available on Amazon: Kidz in the Hall

Ill Moves: Hip Hop Dance to Join All World Dance [NOT]

Though Ill Moves has been quiet for a minute, I've been gathering resources for a totally new site that will include an awesome new hip hop blog as part of its offerings:

All World Dance: For All Dancers

Launching soon!

Update: Looks like All World Dance is on hold so I think I'll start posting here again.

J.U.i.C.E. Fest, Miami HEAT Seniors, HYPA Showcase

• BallerStatus.com » LA Non-Profit J.U.i.C.E. Preps 3rd Annual Hip-Hop Dance Festival

• Welwyn Garden City dance group’s appeal to fund trip - What's on - Welwyn Hatfield Times

• Seniors Bump 'N Grind To Be On HEAT's Dance Team - cbs4.com

• At Miami Heat dance tryout, `it's good to be golden' - Miami-Dade - MiamiHerald.com

• America’s Best Dance Crew winner to teach hip hop master class in Franklin Thursday - Medway, MA - Wicked Local Medway

• HYPA to showcase hip hop dancing | Sunshine Coast News | Local News in Sunshine Coast | The Sunshine Coast Daily

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Bring It On: Fight To The Finish DVD & Soundtrack

Bring It On: Fight To The Finish DVD

The Bring It On: Fight To The Finish DVD will be available September 1st.

Bring It On: Fight To The Finish Soundtrack

The Bring It On: Fight To The Finish Soundtrack will be available on CD on September 15th and is expected digitaly on September 1st.

Over at Hip Hop Press:
BRING IT ON: FIGHT TO THE FINISH SOUNDTRACK SET TO RELEASE
WITH THE ALL-NEW MOVIE ON DVD & BLU-RAY HI-DEF SEPTEMBER 1ST

Haircuts of the World Hip Hop Dance Championships 2009

The Hair We Wear

Via Hip Hop International 2009.

Over at ProHipHop:
2009 USA & World Hip Hop Dance Championships

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