April 1st, 2009
Filed under: Life | Tags: dance, graffiti, hip hop
A friend of Ivy’s, Jay, invited us to go watch her perform some Hip Hop dancing. She was performing in a show for a Hip Hop class she goes to. Each of the members did a solo dance that they choreographed themselves. They also did a bunch of group performances. All in all it was a pretty fun night. The only thing I didn’t like was it was held in a church and between dances they played little videos advertising how cool and youth focused their church was.
I also got to meet Pauly after the show. Pauly is a graffiti artist, a pretty good one as well. I have been trying to get hold of him for some time now, but he has been painting over in L.A.. I want him to do a mural on the outside fence of the pre-school I work at and after tonight’s meet up it looks like things are all go.
http://www.vimeo.com/3953841
March 2nd, 2009
Filed under: Life | Tags: christchurch, dance, festival
Latin Dance Festival 09
Went along to the Latin Dance Festival this weekend. It was held at the town hall and basically consisted of 2 hours of professional dancers strutting their stuff. The majority of it was very impressive and the crowd really got it to it. During the half time break a Latin band performed and about a quarter of the crowd got up to dance. It was a fun night out.
They also did some dancing work shops during the day in Victoria Square and sold a variety of South American Food. Unfortunately the weather didn’t hold up and rain put a bit of a damper on things.
February 20th, 2009
Filed under: Life | Tags: christchurch, dance, festival, friends
Latin Dance Class
Ivy’s friend and classmate, Maria, runs the Latin Dance Festival here in Christchurch. The festival will be starting on the 28th of February and to drum up some interest she has been running free Latin dance classes at Christchurch Art Museum on Wednesday nights.
Ivy and I went along to this weeks class. I was surprised with the turn out, there was at least 50 plus people there. It started off pretty slow with us all in a line copying some basic steps. Before I knew what was going on we were paired up and learning our first of three dance moves. After an hour of spinning and toe crunching we managed to become quite good at the three moves and were dancing away happily.
It was a pretty fun night and I would recommend it to anyone. Especially you guys out there. The girls out numbered the boys two to one, making dancing classes a great place to pick up chicks. Plus once you learn to dance your chances of pulling while out on the town are bound to increase exponentially.
January 3rd, 2009
Filed under: Rants | Tags: dance, rain, storm
Dancing in the Rain
After a lovely day of sunshine the weather quickly did a complete 180, as is so often the case here in New Zealand. At around 4:30 the wind started and the first of the raindrops. It wasn’t long before it started to hail. After a bit of hail and some crazy winds the real storm hit. Thunder and Lightening from all directions and rain, buckets of it. It’s at this point Ivy and I knew what we had to do, get our groove on. So that’s exactly what we did, out into the street we ran for some dancing and puddle jumping. Life is good.
oooooh just like dicky Gere in "shall we dance"…keep it up son,your blog is
full of cool stuff.(read it out to my wife and she started to swooooon…).
love that hand motion(part of the dance or pure inspiration?)
It was part of the dance, but I like to think I gave it a little something special.
2 to 1 Epic! I'm going to have to sign up to these courses in Blenheim!