Date: Thursday 31st May
Time: 12-2pm
Place: Patrick Studios Australia, 4/40 Green St, Prahran
Cost: $20
Patrick Chen (Founder and Director of Dance2XS) and Lee Daniels (Dance2XS International) arrived in Melbourne just a few hours ago and are confirmed to be teaching at PSA this coming Thursday!
They are two of the leading choreographers in the world sharing working credits between them of; Mariah Carey, Aaliyah, Misteeq, Elva Hsiao and much more.
This is a one-off workshop in Melbourne so DON’T MISS OUT

Date: June 7
Time: 12-3pm
Place: The Space,

Trish Squire-Rogers is one of Melbourne’s leading dancers having had extensive experience in the entertainment industry, both in Australia and overseas. She has worked recently with So You Think You Can Dance (Greece), and also is credited with film credits such as “The Wog Boy” and “The Beach”.
She is looking for skilled and versatile Dancers and Singers for Highly Specialized Corporate Events.
Strong Dancers and Excellent Singers/Dancers, both Male and Female required for cabaret style shows.

First run of shows is 5th July till 22nd July

All Applicants will be required to dance first (jazz) then sing.
Please make sure you have a backing track to accompany you, as there will be no piano.
Please submit photo and biog to: trishsquire@mac.com
Your Audition time will be sent through to you.

Performance rates are on & above industry standard.

The Synthesis Collective is a collaboration event of 4 award winning, and highly acclaimed national/international Australian hip hop and street choreographers.

Alvin De Castro (Beatphonik), JC Reyes (IllAdvanced/Tantrumm), Marrietta Lam (Trick Nasty Crew), and Matty B (Trick Nasty Crew) will be holding their first classes as a collective on June 16 and 17.

Synthesis brings together almost twenty years of hip hop experience in one event to spearhead an attempt at a culture shift towards growth, education, collaboration, high level street dance, harmony and respect in our ever evolving urban community. They come from all schools, old, mid, and new - Synthesis aims to serve up hip hop at the highest and more complete caliber to prove true the hip hop mantra, “It’s not where yah from, it’s where yah at!”

Find out more about the Synthesis Collective

The Project Element Tour of Melbourne that was set for this Friday has been cancelled.

They will be teaching on Thursday at PSA however. (See above for more details)

PET will still be touring the other cities as planned.

Melbourne Music Academy has started some new classes starting this coming week! On Friday nights, two of the dancers from Nomadic Funk will start teaching the styles they specialise in. They are without a doubt, among the leading dancers of the style in Australia.

FRIDAYS:
Popping (Beginners [Steps & Groove]), 6:30pm – 7:30pm, Andri Widjaja [Nomadic Funk]
House (Beginners [Basics & Freestyle]), 7:30pm – 8:30pm, Katsu Suzuki [Nomadic Funk] - This House style is direct from Japan!!
(Please note that the Club Class with Kristi McCarthy [CKDI] will be postponed until Friday 2nd June)
Also, a reminder about the nu skool hip hop classes on Tuesday nights, Ryusuke is down in Australia for only a few more months so take classes while you can!

TUESDAYS:
Nu Skool Hip Hop (Intermediate), 7.00pm - 8.00pm, JJ [Jigsaw Sneakers]
Nu Skool Hip Hop (Advanced), 8.30pm - 9.30pm, Ryusuke Ueda [Jigsaw Sneakers]

VIDEOS:
Ryusuke’s Class
JayJ’s Class
Nomadic Funk @ Get Krump’d
The rest of the classes and the full timetable for MMA can be found here.

Rewind has finally gotten a new site! Rewind is considered one of the leading hip hop crews in Australia, and remains an inspiration to many of the younger crews around the country.

After winning Shakedown last year, they now have their sights on the world’s most prestigious and recognised hip hop dance competition, ‘Hip Hop International’. Last year, the Phillipine All Stars took out the competition and were crowned as the best hip hop crew in the world.

You can follow their journey at their new blog:

Rewind vs The World

With the close of Groove Melbourne’s first chapter tonight, there are no more confirmed dance events on the roster as many of the dancers will be taking a break to prepare for their mid-year exams.

A lot of exciting things happened this year with heaps of auditions, international dance workshops, competitions and new crews formed. Melbourne’s first official nu skool crew (Jigsaw Sneakers) and funk styles crew (Nomadic Funk) were formed. They will be some of the big names to watch out for this year along with The Project, Vikings, and of course, last year’s hard hitters Beatphonik.
This year has definitely been the busiest and biggest year for hip hop dance in Melbourne and it’s been hard to keep track of what happened so we’ve compiled a snapshot of the news and grooves that’s occurred in the past five months!

A Snapshot of Melbourne’s Hip Hop Dance scene in the first half of 2007 

Open Division:
1st - Beatphonik
2nd - Tantrumm
3rd - NV-US

Junior Division:
1st - Street Funk
2nd - Baby Bling
3rd - Katastrafy

Groovedance will not be providing any coverage for this event due to uni committments.

Bboying Battles:
1st - Virus (Tokyo, Japan)
2nd - Stylenators

Two of the Pokedots crews made it to the semi-final stage, but the big delight was Virus, recently arrived from Japan battling with some next-level moves and flavour. Virus will be here for one year so we can look forward to seeing more of them in the upcoming competitions!

Hip Hop Showcases:
1st - Jigsaw Sneakers
2nd - Nomadic Funk
3rd - NV-US
4th - Alpha Delinkwentz

Jigsaw Sneakers won their second competition with the same show they performed at Raw, except cleaner but with less a bit less energy. This is their second win this year, narrowly beating Nomadic Funk whom performed with just three members, by three points.

Groovedance will not be uploading the footage for a while since our university priorities have taken over :(.

The coverage for She Got Game is complete! Review, Results, and Photos from the day are all up!

The event was inspiring to be a part of, with the best bgirls from all over the world and the country gathering to showcase world-class skills!

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