The preliminaries for popping and locking battles at Freestyle Fed Square next year will run next week in Richmond!

Discussion Here!

If you’re interested in flying up to Sydney in December for the Australian Bboy Championships, Battlegrounds and other dance related activities, Virgin Blue has good sales for a limited time!

Sale Ends: Midnight Tuesday 9 September 2008
Travel Periods: 15 October to 16 December 2008 and 13 January to 7 April 2009

Fly from Melbourne to:
Sydney - $78
Brisbane - $108
Gold Coast - $68
Perth - $158

Visit the Virgin Blue website for more details!

All the performances from Looze Control National finals are up! Major thanks to Nojon Entertainment for running the event and Marina for uploading.

Watch the videos HERE.

Audition Dates for SYTYCD Australia have finally been released!!!

So You Think You Can Dance Australia? The time has come to prove it.

The search for our nation’s next favourite dancer is on.  The prize for our eventual winner is $200 000 plus overseas dance opportunities and more.

If you’re Australian, aged 18 to 35 as of 1st February 2009 and you love dancing - we can’t wait to meet you - whatever your moves. 

This year we are also on the hunt for UNIQUE styles of the dance that are hard to learn and take years to perfect.  We are committed to showcasing these specialist genres on our studio shows.  So we’re calling all tappers, poppers, breakers, acrobats, contortionists, balletic dancers, traditional dancers, in fact whatever your style - amateur or pro - come and show us your stuff…seriously.

Click Here for the Audition Dates and discussion!

CREW BATTLES
Juse v Zealous
Skill @ Will v KO
R.A.W. v Hybrid Consciousness
Flesh Mobb v Liverpool St 2

Juse v Skill @ Will
Flesh Mobb v R.A.W.

Finals - Skill @ Will v R.A.W
Winner - R.A.W.

SOLO BATTLES
Qtrs
Taz v Boogie Boi
Pepito v Monsta
Yogi v Falcon
Nasa v ?

Semis 
Taz v Yogi
Nasa v Pepito

Finals - Nasa v Yogi
Winner - Nasa (Fresh Sox)

Junior Division:
1st - Urban Force Jnr
2nd - Urban Youth Project
3rd - Street Funk

Senior Division:
1st - Seapuog
2nd - Doppelgangerz
3rd - Random Select

Discussion HERE

There are a few workshops coming up over the next few weeks:

Aug 28 & 29 - Red Bull BC One Workshops
Aug 31 & Sep 01 - Vince Workshops (Rewind)
Sep 6 & 7 - Suga Pop (Electric Boogaloos)
Sep 6 - Global Alliance Dance Initiative
Sep 12 - Fresh from USA” - Travers Ross, Jesse+Joel Rasmussen

Details of Our Backyard have been released!

Where: Hamer Hall, The Arts Centre - this seats up to 2500 people
When: Sunday September 21 2008
Time: Event runs from 1-5pm, Foyer activities incl. the Qualifying round for the Breakin’ Battle commence at 11am
Audience: All-ages event
Cost: This is a FREE ticketed event. Tickets are available NOW. See the Arts Centre website for more details.

Visit this page for more info on the schedule, performers, and registration!

The audition dates for Season 2 are set to be released on the 1st of September. Stay tuned for the list of dates, venues and tips!

The most star-studded line up of dancers EVER is currently in Australia, and there are a flurry of events running so you can see, learn, and jam with them!

Red Bull is doing a tour with;  Benny (RSA), Hong 10 (KOR), Lilou (FRA), Physicx (KOR), Roxrite (USA), Ben-J (SEN) and Pelézinho (BRA). Click here for a list of tour dates.

Also, they will be running FREE WORKSHOPS in Brisbane on August 16, Melbourne on the 23, and Sydney on the 28th. Click here for more details on the free workshops.

And last but not least… SHADOW WARS III will be running on August 30 in Sydney. This is widely regarded as THE bboy event of the year. There are approximately 80 people travelling up to Sydney from Melbourne that weekend for this event and Looze Control so the anticipation is rife!!!