Thursday, December 31, 2009
Correctional Facility Best Of DVD Promo Video 2010
Since 2006 Urban Artistry in collaboration with CAB CRU and The Assassins Crew International have come together to bring you 5 amazing urban dance and culture events called the Correctional Facility. Visit www.youtube.com/urbanartistry for more details on the event and uploaded footage that has already been released.
The full length DVD is complete with cypher footage, hip hop battles, bboy/bgirl battles, seven to smoke, locking performances, waacking performances, house dance performances and popping battles. There are call out battles with DC icons Vortex (Natural Elements Crew), Ghost (Lions of Zion Crew) and Fatrawk (Arrive To Defy) from Bulgaria's famous Sleepwalkingz, solos from Frantick, Future, Rashaad, Popula, among others and hot box footage with Maryland's own Ironman. This DVD box set promises to give you everything you would expect from a Best Of DVD Series.
See the promo available now and stay tuned for the full length DVD which will be available in late 2010. A special thanks goes out to the probono filmmakers who captured this footage for us, especially Geoff Bund, Nick Huynh, Daniel Lagdameo and their assistants, the DJ's, Baronhawk Poitier, Mate Masie, Halfstep and Obyeah, the local, national and international competitors, MC's Halfstep, Ironman and Guerilla Will and the many guests who made this event possible.
We are grateful to all the supporters who believe in the Correctional Facility Mission that when talk is ineffective, we can correct through movement. Stay tuned for more events to come in 2010.
www.urbanartistry.org/events.html
Montgomery College presents: Urban Artistry
Join Urban Artistry for their educational production teaching the origins of urban dance, music and arts culture at the brand new Montgomery College Theater in downtown Silver Spring, as part of the Saturday Morning Children Series on Saturday, March 6, 2010 at 11 a.m. http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/Departments/reppac/tp_childrens_events/urban_artistry.htm
CultureCapital.com: The House That Jack Built. With Urban Artistry., Discovery Theater at the Smithsonian, Smithsonian National Museum of American History
CultureCapital.com: The House That Jack Built. With Urban Artistry., Discovery Theater at the Smithsonian, Smithsonian National Museum of American History
Join Urban Artistry as they take you on a journey through the dances associated with House Music Culture. This is a family friendly show, open to all ages with an educational component. See the link below for more information.
http://discoverytheater.com/shows/may/house-that-jack-built.shtm
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Black Expressions: Hip Hop Festival!!! February 19th & 20th 2010
Join Urban Artistry at this years Mason/Rhynes' 7th Annual
Black Expressions: Hip Hop Festival!!!
Friday, February 19th 2010 at 8pm
Saturday, February 20th 2010 at 8pm
Takoma Park/Silver Spring
Takoma Park/Silver Spring
Performing Arts Center
Montgomery College
TP/SS Campus
Silver Spring, MD
TP/SS Campus
Silver Spring, MD
MRP brings you the best in dance, music, and spoken word in this heart-pumping showcase of DC hip hop. Let's put it this way, there are three exclamation points for a reason...check out the festival and you'll see why! Featuring Reggie Glass, Komplex, Shodekeh, Culture Shock DC, Urban Artistry, Tappening, RhythmiX, Dimensions of Funk, Just Tap, DCypher, and DJ 2-Tone Jones.
Tickets on Sale now for INTERSECTIONS
Coyaba Dance TheaterTappers With Attitude
Urban Artistry
ORIGINS, a joyful collaboration
ORIGINS, a joyful collaboration
among three top DC dance companies
celebrating the heritage and soul
celebrating the heritage and soul
of African American dance.
Joining forces for a one-of-a-kind dance celebration, three DC Dance companies will intersect their distinctive powerhouse styles to tell the story of African American dance, culture and heritage. Take Coyaba Dance Theater’s high energy drumming and traditional West African dance. Add Tappers With Attitude’s sassy blend of popular percussive dance steps from the past. Mix with Urban Artistry’s funkstyles, hip-hop and house dance moves spanning decades of popular urban dance history. Season it with Latin flavors, Afro-Caribbean Soul, culturally based Martial Arts movement and you have a recipe for an unforgettable retrospective of dance that defines America.
Joining forces for a one-of-a-kind dance celebration, three DC Dance companies will intersect their distinctive powerhouse styles to tell the story of African American dance, culture and heritage. Take Coyaba Dance Theater’s high energy drumming and traditional West African dance. Add Tappers With Attitude’s sassy blend of popular percussive dance steps from the past. Mix with Urban Artistry’s funkstyles, hip-hop and house dance moves spanning decades of popular urban dance history. Season it with Latin flavors, Afro-Caribbean Soul, culturally based Martial Arts movement and you have a recipe for an unforgettable retrospective of dance that defines America.
Ideal for the whole family, this show will be sure to get you on your feet!
Saturday, February 20, 2010 at 2:00 PM
Sunday, February 21, 2010 at 7:00 PM
ATLAS - Lang Theatre
1333 H Street NEWashington, DC 20002
Tickets: $15 student / $20 adult
For audiences of all ages.TICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW AT:
Hope for the Holidays!
On Monday, December 21st, 2009 Dream for Kids invited Urban Artistry to participate in an event to bring holiday cheer to many homeless, transitional living and foster kids living in the district. The event was a huge success and the folks at Urban Artistry had a blast performing for this kids, teaching them new moves and watching the kids teach us their favorite dances. The event culminated with gifts from Santa which was a thrill for all to watch. Although, the presents portion of the event was exciting, it warmed the hearts of the passionate Urban Artistry dance educators when some of the kids replied "more dancing" when asked what they came to the event for that afternoon. Artistic Director Rashaad Pearson organized the performance which included Directors and Performers, Emily Wessel, Russell Campbell, Phillip Chang, Ryan Webb, LaTasha Barnes, Rizqi Rachmat, Toyin Sogunro, Maren Cummings, Giovanni Galleno, Lynnette Brunson and our European guest artist Rusi "Roosee" Yusifov from the Sleepwalkingz Crew in Sofia, Bulgaria. The artists performed for 15-20 minutes and then spent the rest of the time dancing with the kids and parents who attended the event.
Unfortunately due to the snow and ice here in DC that weekend, many of the kids couldn't make it to the event that day to meet the dancers from UA. As a consolation, Urban Artistry has promised to provide another show in the spring or summer through the Dream for Kids organization located at the Georgetown Foundry Building in NW, Washington DC. Stay tuned for announcements for this upcoming show as well as other UA events in 2010.
We want to also take a moment to thank Andrew Horn, Director of Dream for Kids DC for organizing this great event and to Washington Post Staff Writer, Darryl Fears for his attendance, support and the kind article he wrote on Tuesday, 12/22/09 covering the event.
To see the article in it's entirety, please follow the below links
For more info about the organization and the event please see the link below:
Monday, December 21, 2009
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Urban Artistry is MOVING in 2010!!!
edited 10/26/2010 This program ended on 9/26/2010- Urban Artistry is no longer at the below listed location.
As 2009 comes to a close, we say farewell to Tenleytown/Friendship Heights, NW and say hello to Columbia Heights/14th street, NW!
As of December 20th, 2009, URBAN ARTISTRY has offically left The DC Dance Collective and will take up Residentcy at The Dance Institute of Washington starting in January 2010!
All of the current Urban Artistry Staff instructors have retired their classes at DCDC and moved in to our new partner location at 3400 14th Street, NW, Washington DC. There is 2 hour street parking avaliable, as well as validated parking at the Giant Foods and paid parking in the security lot under the Target/Best Buy in the Columbia Heights Neighborhood.
This new loaction is also metro accessible. It is about 2 blocks walking distance from the Columbia Heights Station on the Green Line.
The new class schedule will start the first week in January, with a week of FREE (yes, free) classes as our HOLIDAY GIFT to you!
The regular season of classes kicks off on Sunday, January 10th, 2010 with our new Open Practice Session every Sunday afternoon from 3:00pm to 6:00pm. This structured practice will give students and community participants a safe, clean, healthy place to practice with mentors, dancers and friends of the urban dance community. All styles of dance are welcome and instructors will be on site to help those who are new. This practice will be $5 per person, which goes towards the rent for the space which has been generously discounted to make this practice possible! A live DJ will show up to play the practice about once a month!
Thursday, January 7th, 2010
please click on the link to read the full brochure
please click on the link to read the full brochure
As of December 20th, 2009, URBAN ARTISTRY has offically left The DC Dance Collective and will take up Residentcy at The Dance Institute of Washington starting in January 2010!
All of the current Urban Artistry Staff instructors have retired their classes at DCDC and moved in to our new partner location at 3400 14th Street, NW, Washington DC. There is 2 hour street parking avaliable, as well as validated parking at the Giant Foods and paid parking in the security lot under the Target/Best Buy in the Columbia Heights Neighborhood.
This new loaction is also metro accessible. It is about 2 blocks walking distance from the Columbia Heights Station on the Green Line.
The new class schedule will start the first week in January, with a week of FREE (yes, free) classes as our HOLIDAY GIFT to you!
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
FREE CLASSES - ALL LEVELS - ALL AGES
Hip Hop from 7:00pm to 8:00pm
with
Junious "House" Brickhouse
Rizqi Rachmat
House Dance from 8:00pm to 9:00pm
with
Junious "House" Brickhouse
LaTasha Barnes
Toyin Sogunro
Desmond Howard
Thursday, January 7th, 2010
FREE CLASSES - ALL LEVELS - ALL AGES
Breakin (bboy/bgirl) from 7:00pm to 8:00pm
with
Emily "Incognito" Wessel
Gabe "Shamrock" Galbraith
Popping Performance Class Preview from 8:00pm to 8:30pm
with
Rashaad Pearson
Ryan "Future" Webb
FREE CLASSES - ALL LEVELS - ALL AGES
Breakin (bboy/bgirl) from 7:00pm to 8:00pm
with
Emily "Incognito" Wessel
Gabe "Shamrock" Galbraith
Popping Performance Class Preview from 8:00pm to 8:30pm
with
Rashaad Pearson
Ryan "Future" Webb
Locking Performance Class Preview from 8:30pm to 9:00pm
with
Baronhawk Poitier "JC" Williams
The regular season of classes kicks off on Sunday, January 10th, 2010 with our new Open Practice Session every Sunday afternoon from 3:00pm to 6:00pm. This structured practice will give students and community participants a safe, clean, healthy place to practice with mentors, dancers and friends of the urban dance community. All styles of dance are welcome and instructors will be on site to help those who are new. This practice will be $5 per person, which goes towards the rent for the space which has been generously discounted to make this practice possible! A live DJ will show up to play the practice about once a month!
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
ONGOING $10 Drop-In CLASSES - ALL LEVELS - ALL AGES
Hip Hop from 7:00pm to 8:00pm
with
Junious "House" Brickhouse
Rizqi Rachmat
ONGOING $10 Drop-In CLASSES - ALL LEVELS - ALL AGES
Hip Hop from 7:00pm to 8:00pm
with
Junious "House" Brickhouse
Rizqi Rachmat
House Dance from 8:00pm to 9:00pm
with
Junious "House" Brickhouse
LaTasha Barnes
Toyin Sogunro
Desmond Howard
with
Junious "House" Brickhouse
LaTasha Barnes
Toyin Sogunro
Desmond Howard
Thursday, January 7th, 2010
ONGOING $10 Drop-In Classes - ALL LEVELS - ALL AGES
Breakin (bboy/bgirl) from 7:00pm to 8:00pm
with
Emily "Incognito" Wessel
Gabe "Shamrock" Galbraith
Thursday, January 14th, 2010 to February18th 2010
6 week enrollment $75
ALL LEVELS- ALL AGES
Popping Performance Class from 8:00pm to 9:00pm
with
Rashaad Pearson
Ryan "Future" Webb
Thursday, February 25th, 2010 to April 1st, 2010
6 week enrollment $75
6 week enrollment $75
Locking Performance Class from 8:00pm to 9:00pm
with
Baronhawk Poitier "JC" Williams
with
Baronhawk Poitier "JC" Williams
Performance is informal and takes place in class on the 6th week.
This class is designed for beginners and those looking to clean up their skills.
Performance is Free and Open to the Public!
Performance is Free and Open to the Public!
IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR WOULD LIKE TO PRE_REGISTER FOR CLASSES PLEASE CONTACT:
Emily E. Wessel
Director of Operations
Urban Artistry
202.431.4202
Winner of the Dance Metro Dc Award for Best Emerging Performer or Group 2009!
Visit our in-school/after-school program though Class Acts Arts
Visit our International Urban Dancc and Culture Festival
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
The Underground: sponsored by Urban Artistry
The Underground is an event organized by Denise Kloeden, The British School, Rock Band- Company 28 and Urban Artistry Dance Company, created specifically for High School Students in the DC Metro Area as a place to party, dance, hang out and meet new people!
January 9th 2010
8:00pm to 11:00pm
2001 Wisconsin Ave, NW
Washington, DC
There will be music provided by Urban Artistry/CAB CRU DJ: Baronhawk Poiter and Rock Band Company 28, as well as a freestyle (allstyles) battle, 1 vs. 1 for a prize of $100 to the winner. The battle will be organized and judged by some of the Urban Artistry Company Directors who will also be making appearances in the cyphers throughout the night!
All DC Metro Area High School Students are welcome. You must present a valid high school ID to enter unless you are a member of Urban Artistry or the British School. For pre-registration, please email dkloeden@aol.com and recieve reduced admission for $15, the event will be $20 at the door!
Visit the facebook page also for more info and to RSVP!
http://www.facebook.com/#/event.php?eid=183387579789&index=1
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
THE ILL INGREDIENT 12.12.09 & Jammin on the 1 12.13.09
Friday Night: Dec 11th, 2009
Join us for the Artist in Residency Celebration at The Dance Institute of Washington
3400 14th Street, NW Washington, DC on the Green Line at Columbia Heights Metro Station
FREE Food & Drinks
Live DJ's, Performances, Cyphers, Film Screening and Special Honors Award from Urban Artistry to Sam "the man" Burns for his contribution to our Culture and Education Project.
Visiting guests: Paulskee (SF Bay Area), Roosee (Sofia, Bulgaria) & Mitsu (NYC) among others.
Then Saturday join us for the Main Event!
Join us for the Artist in Residency Celebration at The Dance Institute of Washington
3400 14th Street, NW Washington, DC on the Green Line at Columbia Heights Metro Station
FREE Food & Drinks
Live DJ's, Performances, Cyphers, Film Screening and Special Honors Award from Urban Artistry to Sam "the man" Burns for his contribution to our Culture and Education Project.
Visiting guests: Paulskee (SF Bay Area), Roosee (Sofia, Bulgaria) & Mitsu (NYC) among others.
Then Saturday join us for the Main Event!
Urban Artistry/ Assassins Crew/ Cab Crew present:
The ILLEST Ingredient
This event is open to ALL AGES and is FREE to Kids under 13!!
$10 Admission
The ILLEST Ingredient
This event is open to ALL AGES and is FREE to Kids under 13!!
$10 Admission
2 vs 2 BBoy/ BGirl "Odd Couple" Battles (PRIZE $400)
The format for ODD Couple is that you sign up to battle at the door.
Partners are picked at random once registration has closed.
BBoy Judges:
Roosee (Sleepwalkingz, Sofia, Bulgaria)
Ironman (Cab Cru/ Urban Artistry, Rockville, Maryland)
Paulskee (Rock Force Crew/ Mighty 4- International, Bay Area, California)
1 vs 1 Popping Battles (PRIZE $200)
Popping Judges:
Rashaad (Assassins/ Urban Artistry, Bay Area, California)
Ryan (Assassins/ Urban Artistry, Washington, DC)
Mitsu (Assassins Family/ Urban Artistry Family, New York, NY via Japan)
DJs:
DJ Baronhawk Poitier
DJ Mate Masie
DJ Obeyah
Sunday 12/ 13/ 2009
Pop Shop: Jammin On The 1!
open cypher jam session $5
open cypher jam session $5
2pm - 4pm
DC Dance Collective
4908 Wisconsin Ave, NW Washington DC 20016
4908 Wisconsin Ave, NW Washington DC 20016
12/11/09 at 7pm **FREE EVENT** Artist in Residency Preview Celebration at The Dance Institute of Washington
Urban Artistry and The Dance Institute of Washington proudly present:Artist in Residency Preview Celebration
Friday, December 11th, 2009 from 7:00pm to 11:00pm
Location: 3400 14th St NW, Washington, DC 20010-3401
This event is Free and Open to the Public
ALL AGES WELCOME
ALL AGES WELCOME
7:00pm Cocktail Reception - 8:00pm Program Begins
Performances by:
DJ Obeyah (Yeah Class/ Urban Artistry, Virginia)
DJ Baronhawk Poitier (CAB CRU/ Urban Artistry, Maryland)
DJ Mate Masie (CAB CRU/ Urban Artistry, Maryland)
DJ Roosee (Sleepwalkkingz, Bulgaria)
Special tribute to:
The Underground Soul Solution
DJ Sam “The Man” Burns (DC/MD/VA)
From Urban Artistry Family
Announcements for Urban Artistry’s Upcoming Classes at DIW
Announcements for Other DIW Programs and Performances
Introduce “Roosee” from the Sleepwalkingz Crew, Bulgaria
Talking about his experience with Urban Dance and Culture Abroad
Demo with the bboys/bgirls from Urban Artistry
Introduce Urban Dance Gear from Rogue Squirrel
Urban Artistry’s partner for the International Soul Society Festival
April 15th to April 18th, 2010 in Washington, DC
www.hiphopsoulsociety.com
COZZA CONNECTION DC DOCUMENTARY & PERFORMANCE
From the DJ Bassnectar Show at the 9:30 Club in November
Featuring: Youth Performers from Urban Artistry & Hip Hop Education
Meet the Filmmaker: Megan Keefe
Announcements for INTERSECTIONS DC at the Atlas Theater on H Street
Saturday, February 20th 2010 @ 2:00pm Sunday, February, 21st 2010
Documentary Film Creation and Production Overview
Tappers With Attitude, Coyaba Dance Theater, Urban Artistry
Filmmaker- Megan Keefe
Demo Performances from International Trips
Seoul, Korea and Smolyn, Bulgaria with Urban Artistry Directors:
Rashaad Pearson & Ryan “Future” Webb
Toyin Sogunro & LaTasha Barnes
OPEN DANCE CYPHERS & SOCIAL
w/ Live DJ’s & Performers
and later this month at the Dance Institute of Washington:
FREE CLASSES
Our Holiday gift to you!
Keep checking the blog or come to the event for details coming soon!
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