Review - Project Element Future.Love.Sex.Groove Dance Workshops (Sydney)
November 22nd 2007 02:17
I'm sure many people who went to one of Justin Timberlake's concerts enjoyed the dancing and maybe even wondered where they can learn to dance like Marty Kudelka (Justin's choreographer) and the rest of the crew. That's where we were fortunate enough to host the Future.Sex.Love.Groove workshops where Marty, Skye, Nick and Eddy taught four hours each of some world class Hip Hop and Street Funk.
With four classes running simultaneously and not knowing which to choose, I had just missed out on Nick's smooth moves to Musiq Soulchild's "Just Friends". Knowing how intricate and fine detailed the choreography would be, at least my brain was fresh for gorgeous Marty's chilled "For the night' routine, also by Musiq Soulchild.
I have even more respect for him after he sat us down after class to have an open question and answer session, and explained how the style that he's teaching, and that is popular today may be known as "Hip Hop", but the true Hip Hop styles are bboying/bgirling, popping, locking, boogaloo and so forth. It's so refreshing to see a teacher actually give a brief history lesson and get the facts straight to his students straight up.
The very sexy Eddy made us work in his routine to Beyonce's "Baby Boy". It's kinda hard concentrating when you're constantly checking out the teacher. Skye went old school and taught us his favourite style, Locking, which I'm glad to see many of the students enjoyed. It is a fun and funky style after all, one of my favourites also along with wacking which he just touched upon.
I can't wait to see the Project Element DVD with their interviews and snapshots of routines. There's footage up on Youtube from other countries using the same routines but it's so worth being actually taught by these guys and not from a video...
We'll work on holding more workshops like these, and making them more affordable and accessible as the demand is increasing more and more these days, especially with the rise of tv show So You Think You Can Dance. Which reminds me I have yet to post about, after hanging out at the Sydney auditions...
Write soon!
Marty Kudelka
I have even more respect for him after he sat us down after class to have an open question and answer session, and explained how the style that he's teaching, and that is popular today may be known as "Hip Hop", but the true Hip Hop styles are bboying/bgirling, popping, locking, boogaloo and so forth. It's so refreshing to see a teacher actually give a brief history lesson and get the facts straight to his students straight up.
The very sexy Eddy made us work in his routine to Beyonce's "Baby Boy". It's kinda hard concentrating when you're constantly checking out the teacher. Skye went old school and taught us his favourite style, Locking, which I'm glad to see many of the students enjoyed. It is a fun and funky style after all, one of my favourites also along with wacking which he just touched upon.
I can't wait to see the Project Element DVD with their interviews and snapshots of routines. There's footage up on Youtube from other countries using the same routines but it's so worth being actually taught by these guys and not from a video...
We'll work on holding more workshops like these, and making them more affordable and accessible as the demand is increasing more and more these days, especially with the rise of tv show So You Think You Can Dance. Which reminds me I have yet to post about, after hanging out at the Sydney auditions...
Write soon!
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