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America's Best Dance Crew Contestants

Author : Source Wikipedia

Publisher : University-Press.org

Page : 32 pages

File Size : 40,16 MB

Release : 2013-09

Category :

ISBN : 9781230476445

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 30. Chapters: 8 Flavahz, Beat Freaks, Chachi Gonzales, Elektrolytes, Fanny Pak, I.aM.mE, Jabbawockeez, Kaba Modern, Massive Monkees, Poreotics, Quest Crew, ReQuest Dance Crew, SoReal Cru, Super Cr3w, We Are Heroes. Excerpt: Quest Crew is an American hip-hop dance crew from Los Angeles, California who were declared winners of the third season of America's Best Dance Crew. They made their first few appearances individually on shows like So You Think You Can Dance and at events such as Kollaboration 8 and World of Dance. The name "Quest Crew" reflects the support that the Quest Learning Center, located in Artesia, California, has had on growth within the team and individually. Quest Crew won the title of America's Best Dance Crew on the third season of the show and consists of ten members. Team members originally performed with the SickStep dance troupe, but later disbanded to recreate and include dancers to form Quest. D-Trix and Victor Kim are also part of the b-boy crew Fallen Kings, formally known as Flexible Flave, which won Freestyle session. The entire crew appeared in the Far East Movement music video "Dance Like Michael Jackson" and LMFAO's "Party Rock Anthem," "Champagne Showers," "Sexy And I Know It" and "Sorry for Party Rocking." Quest Crew also performed on Idol Gives Back in 2008, and toured with Gloria Estefan and Sheila E. Five out of the ten active members of Quest Crew have appeared on So You Think You Can Dance. Ryan and Hok auditioned for season one with another member of their former crew Sick Step; crew member Ryan 'Ryanimay' Conferido appeared on the first season as a finalist and Hok did not make it. Ryan was eliminated in the fourth week of season one. Steve Terada, Victor Kim, and Hokuto 'Hok' Konishi had all auditioned for the second season (this being Hok's second time). Steve and Victor were both...



American Hip Hop Dance Groups

Author : Source Wikipedia

Publisher : Booksllc.Net

Page : 34 pages

File Size : 26,81 MB

Release : 2013-09

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ISBN : 9781230790060

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 32. Chapters: 8 Flavahz, Art of Movement, Beat Freaks, Elektrolytes, Fanny Pak, I.aM.mE, Jabbawockeez, Kaba Modern, Massive Monkees, New York City Breakers, Poreotics, Quest Crew, Rock Steady Crew, Seattle City Breakers, SoReal Cru, Super Cr3w, We Are Heroes. Excerpt: Quest Crew is an American hip-hop dance crew from Los Angeles, California who were declared winners of the third season of America's Best Dance Crew. They made their first few appearances individually on shows like So You Think You Can Dance and at events such as Kollaboration 8 and World of Dance. The name "Quest Crew" reflects the support that the Quest Learning Center, located in Artesia, California, has had on growth within the team and individually. Quest Crew won the title of America's Best Dance Crew on the third season of the show and consists of ten members. Team members originally performed with the SickStep dance troupe, but later disbanded to recreate and include dancers to form Quest. D-Trix and Victor Kim are also part of the b-boy crew Fallen Kings, formally known as Flexible Flave, which won Freestyle session. The entire crew appeared in the Far East Movement music video "Dance Like Michael Jackson" and LMFAO's "Party Rock Anthem," "Champagne Showers," "Sexy And I Know It" and "Sorry for Party Rocking." Quest Crew also performed on Idol Gives Back in 2008, and toured with Gloria Estefan and Sheila E. Five out of the ten active members of Quest Crew have appeared on So You Think You Can Dance. Ryan and Hok auditioned for season one with another member of their former crew Sick Step; crew member Ryan 'Ryanimay' Conferido appeared on the first season as a finalist and Hok did not make it. Ryan was eliminated in the fourth week of season one. Steve Terada, Victor Kim, and Hokuto 'Hok' Konishi had all auditioned for the second season (this being Hok's...



Celeb 2.0

Author : Kelli S. Burns

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Page : 233 pages

File Size : 25,16 MB

Release : 2009-10-22

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 0313356890

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This volume looks at how the new capabilities of Web 2.0 are changing the worlds of celebrity fandom and gossip. With Ashton Kutcher's record-breaking "tweeting" more famous than his films, and Perez Hilton actually getting more attention than Paris, the actress often covered in his blog, the worlds of celebrity celebration and online social networking are pushing the public's crush on the famous and infamous into overdrive. Celeb 2.0: How Social Media Foster Our Fascination with Popular Culture explores this phenomenon. Celeb 2.0 looks at how blogs, video sharing sites, user-news sites, social networks, and message boards are fueling America's already voracious consumption of pop culture. Full of fascinating insights and interviews, the book looks at how celebrities use blogs, Twitter, and other tools, how YouTube and other sites create celebrity, how Web 2.0 shortens the distance between fans and stars, and how the new social media influences news reporting and series television.



Contemporary Directions in Asian American Dance

Author : Yutian Wong

Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres

Page : 281 pages

File Size : 36,89 MB

Release : 2016-05-11

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 0299308707

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Original essays and interviews by artists and scholars who are making, defining, questioning, and theorizing Asian American dance in all its variety.



The Very Last Word

Author : Daniel O'Rourke

Publisher : iUniverse

Page : 203 pages

File Size : 41,80 MB

Release : 2015-01-05

Category : Body, Mind & Spirit

ISBN : 1491757051

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The Very Last Word is a collection of newspaper columns originally published in the "Observer" in Dunkirk, New York. This book is the third compilation of Daniel O'Rourke's columns. Like the previous books, it is a reader. The sixty or so short chapters deal with life and death, spirituality and materialism, politics and prejudice. This book is to be read gently. Pick a chapter carefully. Read it and reflect upon it. This is not a novel to be read cover to cover; it is spiritual reading.





Reality T.V.

Author : Shannon Kelly

Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC

Page : 120 pages

File Size : 42,73 MB

Release : 2013-03-01

Category : Young Adult Nonfiction

ISBN : 1420511025

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According to a CNN 2013 article on reality TV and youth, behavior portrayed on some reality TV programs is inspiring real-life bullying amongst teens. Research by psychologists at Bringham Young University concluded that aggression in the brain is activated and motivated when youth watch reality TV. This engaging edition looks at the incredibly popular, ever evolving, and divisive form of entertainment that is reality TV. The book looks at what is defined as reality television and provides a brief history of the genre. It discusses why the format appeals to television producers and how it has been received by audiences. Criticisms of the genre are discussed and arguments that point to redeeming qualities of the shows are also examined. The volume includes discussion questions for each chapter and sources for further research on the topic.



Dance in US Popular Culture

Author : Jennifer Atkins

Publisher : Taylor & Francis

Page : 377 pages

File Size : 39,24 MB

Release : 2023-07-21

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 1000904547

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This innovative textbook applies basic dance history and theory to contemporary popular culture examples in order to examine our own ways of moving in—and through—culture. By drawing on material relevant to students, Dance in US Popular Culture successfully introduces students to critical thinking around the most personal of terrain: our bodies and our identities. The book asks readers to think about: what embodied knowledge we carry with us and how we can understand history and society through that lens what stereotypes and accompanying expectations are embedded in performance, related to gender and/or race, for instance how such expectations are reinforced, negotiated, challenged, embraced, or rescripted by performers and audiences how readers articulate their own sense of complex identity within the constantly shifting landscape of popular culture, how this shapes an active sense of their everyday lives, and how this can act as a springboard towards dismantling systems of oppression Through readings, questions, movement analyses, and assignment prompts that take students from computer to nightclub and beyond, Dance in US Popular Culture readers develop their own cultural sense of dance and the moving body’s sociopolitical importance while also determining how dance is fundamentally applicable to their own identity. This is the ideal textbook for high school and undergraduate students of dance and dance studies in BA and BfA courses, as well as those studying popular culture from interdisciplinary perspectives including cultural studies, media studies, communication studies, theater and performance studies. Chapter 11 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY 4.0 license.



Choreographies of 21st Century Wars

Author : Gay Morris

Publisher : Oxford University Press

Page : 385 pages

File Size : 37,78 MB

Release : 2016

Category : History

ISBN : 0190201665

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Wars in this century are radically different from the major conflicts of the 20th century--more amorphous, asymmetrical, globally connected, and unending. Choreographies of 21st Century Wars is the first book to analyze the interface between choreography and wars in this century, a pertinent inquiry since choreography has long been linked to war and military training. The book draws on recent political theory that posits shifts in the kinds of wars occurring since the First and Second World Wars and the Cold War, all of which were wars between major world powers. Given the dominance of today's more indeterminate, asymmetrical, less decisive wars, we ask if choreography, as an organizing structure and knowledge system, might not also need revision in order to reflect on, and intercede in, a globalized world of continuous warfare. In an introduction and sixteen chapters, authors from a number of disciplines investigate how choreography and war in this century impinge on each other. Choreographers write of how they have related to contemporary war in specific works, while other contributors investigate the interconnections between war and choreography through theatrical works, dances, military rituals and drills, the choreography of video war games and television shows. Issues investigated include torture and terror, the status of war refugees, concerns surrounding fighting and peacekeeping soldiers, national identity tied to military training, and more. The anthology is of interest to scholars in dance, performance, theater, and cultural studies, as well as the social sciences.



The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Competition

Author : Sherril Dodds

Publisher :

Page : 689 pages

File Size : 15,63 MB

Release : 2019

Category : Music

ISBN : 0190639083

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This Handbook asks how competition affects the presentation and experience of dance.