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
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