I just spent the morning presenting certificates to a group of exceptionally gifted young people, and I have to tell you it was fantastic. The urban scholars programme was set up to help young people in London Boroughs to access expertise and experiences that might not have been accessible to them otherwise. The Moody foundation funded the enterprise and the benefit to the graduating students was obvious. I was fortunate enough to be invited to give a key note speech and present the awards and I felt privileged to be asked. When there is so much negativity going on in the news right now about the hardship facing many residents of london it restored my faith in society to be able to celebrate the incredible achievement of these young adults. It took 4 yrs of commitment and a lot of hard work to graduate and to see so much joy in one place was wicked. I personally received so much positivity from the event it will keep me going for months! Congratulations to everyone involved in urban scholars both the staff and the graduates. Good luck to everyone you deserve everything you get. If you were at the event let us know what you thought, drop us a comment and stay in touch!
Here it is guys, an excerpt from our performance at Swan slam, If you were there drop us a comment, if you couldn’t make the show and this is the first time you’ve seen this drop us a comment anyway and let us know what you thought! By the way the style of dance here is called locking, one of the styles we will be covering at Hip Hop Don’t Stop 08! If you want to improve your dancing with some of the best dancers in europe take a peek at our Hip Hop Don’t Stop 08! video it’s sick! Click here to see what all the fuss is about www.urbanstrides.com/hhdsinfo.php
Last night saw Urban Strides headline at the swan slam hip hop dance show alongside professional companies Boy Blue and Jonzi D productions. The show was an awesome success, much respect to Maria Ryan for producing the show and bringing so many like-minded artists together. The crowd response we received was off the chain thank you so much to everyone who came and supported and made the effort to come and be part of the Hip Hop scene. It was dope to see so many urban strides family members from classes come and show the love! We kept it alive for our home town by dropping two new additions to our 2008 medley-a lockin duet and a piece to “I Mikey rock” by the cool kids, well done to the crew for all the hard work and extra rehearsals you put in you did the crew proud. If you were there drop us a comment let us know what you thought, its always good to hear from you.
Here it is dudes the hip hop don’t stop video, edited by our main man Jaymondo. This is our summer workshop, 5 days of the finest and funkiest street dance, classes, jams, cyphers and fun times! If you were there last year or are coming this year drop a message and spread the love, let the people know and spread the word. Tickets on sale very very soon watch this space!
Here it is breakin Convention 08! A 3 day festival with jams, cyphers and hip hop theatre performances, its a must for any aspiring street dancer or hip hop head. We have been asked by Jonzi D and the team at breakin convention to perform on the main stage on Saturday 3rd of may between 6-8pm at Sadlers Wells. Come and support we have a sick new section with our beatboxer, “experimental” that is exclusive to breakin convention, for tickets check out www.breakinconvention.com If you can’t make it check out our performance diary in the blog categories section as to when our next performance is. Come and represent you will meet some wicked peeps and be inspired I will be there all 3 days so come and say hi!
Yo peeps we represented tonight at a local thatre in MK where several schools in the area were competing, if you were there hit us up and lets us know what you thought of the night. I was judging the event and it was great to see so many young people having fun dancing, full respect to all the dance crews that were performing, keep doing your thing.
We performed tonight (6.4.08) to a fierce home crowd. Full respect to all the dance crews that performed at the Aylesbury civic at Activate. I know the Urban strides dancers really enjoyed their performance, and the reaction was great. Thank you to everyone who took the time to come and represent. If you were there hit us up with a comment, any feedback is greatly appreciated good or bad, let us know what you thought!
I went up to my second home (LIPA!) on Saturday for a weekend of hip hop luv. Teaching the authentic nature of hip hop dance styles with Jonzi D-Breakin Convention, Ivan-Birdgang, Mouse-2006 world BBoy champion and Bagzi-House master. Presented by Xena productions we all taught our styles to a wicked hip hop community, I had a great weekend and met some serious funk heads, a great weekend of sharing knowledge and cyphers. Thanks for all who attended and Christina for putting on a sick event. If you were there let us know what you thought.
I have been asked to do a lecture for over 100 young people on the urban scholars programme. This is a programme set up to help people achieve their full potential. I will be talking about the dedication, sacrifice but ultimately the feeling off fullfilment you have when you start to realise your dreams. I will be talking about the positivity needed when things don’t go as planned and how to keep on going no matter what, ( you know, light subject matter?!) Hopefully by sharing some personal experiences it should be interesting, if not it will just be me chatting rubbish on stage in front of over a 100 young people, standard fare really! should be fun! If you were at the lecture let me know what you thought feedback is always appreciated. have a good weekend!
