Dance Workshops
B-Girl Be 2009 Guest Artist Workshops
All workshops will be held at:
Hennepin Center for the Arts
528 Hennepin Ave South
Downtown Minneapolis, MN 55403
Specific studios listed below.
All workshops are two hours long and cost: $20
All workshops are open to both men and women.
Space is limited! Reserve your spot now! Call Intermedia Arts at 612-871-4444 or email info@intermediaarts.org for more details.
Popping with Pringlz and Tutting with Pandora Master Class
Friday, September 18, 2009
4:30pm-6:30pm
HCA Studio 4A
Pringlz Pandora
All levels welcome. Learn basic popping and tutting, original styles of hip-hop dance, from the funky duo Pringlz (Fort Wayne, IN) and Pandora (Los Angeles, CA) from the nationally recognized Venus Fly Trap Crew!
Pringlz began popping over 13 years ago in her home town of Kansas City, MO. Since that time she has been a member of 3 B-Boy (breakdance) crews representing as their primary Funk Stylist (specialist in the street-dance style known as popping), an original and co-founder of Animated Beat Mechanics (popping crew), and has worked with such noted hip hop artists as the Black Eyed Peas, Tone-Loc, The Roots, Rakim, EZ Rock and Rob Base, among others. She was nominated Best Female Popper at the Hip-Hop Dance Awards in L.A. in 2000 and 2002, and Master of the Art of Popping Championship in 2006.
Pandora has competed in many high level dance competitions throughout the US as well as Europe, Japan, Canada & has won 1st place at street dance competitions such as LA’s legendary “Radiotron,” “How Tha West Was Won,” & the UK's festival for women in Hip-Hop: “BSupreme.” Pandora was also presented with an award for "Outstanding Popping Skills" at the Los Angeles Hip-Hop Dance Awards, received a standing ovation on Fox 11's "So You Think You Can Dance," and is a 2008 Durfee Foundation Artist Award recipient.
Chicago House Master Class with Kelsa “Kadance” Rieger
Friday, September 18, 2009
4:30pm-6:30pm
HCA- Studio 4B
All levels welcome! Learn Chicago-based dance style that combines house movement with the partnering techniques of salsa, hustle, and Chicago stepping from house dance expert and member of the Venus Fly Trap Crew- Kelsa “Kadance” Rieger!
Kelsa (A.K.A “Kadance”) is a performer, instructor, and choreographer specializing in street-dance styles including: hip hop, funk, samba, capoeira, and her forte, house, a street-dance style born in Chicago. Her primary training has been in the authentic Chicago house music scene, where she played an essential role in the development of a Chicago-based dance style that combines house movement with the partnering techniques of salsa, hustle, and Chicago stepping. Kelsa has studied and traveled extensively in South America, particularly in Bahia, Brazil. Her distinctive house dance style is recognized for blending the hard, raw “Chicago-jack” and intricate house footwork with the soft, sensual and undulating elements of Latin, African and Brazilian movement.
Battling and Power Moves for existing B-Girls/Boys Master Class with
B-Girl Rokafella!!!
Saturday, September 19, 2009
10:30am- 12:30pm
HCA- Studio 2A
Some basic b-girl/boy skills recommended.
Learn battle techniques and power moves from experienced visiting B-Girl Rokafella. Get to the next level with breaking!!
Hip-Hop dancer/choreographer Ana “Rokafella” Garcia was born in Spanish Harlem where she grew up with a strong Latin background. At the age of 16 she began going to clubs and started to do back up dancing for freestyle singers in the local NYC party scene. Her Hip-Hop dance style became her bread and butter when she began street performing with such crews such as The Transformers, The Breeze Team, and the New York City Float Committee. In ‘94 she ran into Kwikstep who urged her to audition for GhettOriginal- a Hip-Hop dance company. She was cast and became further exposed to the “old school” dance technique. After experiencing international appreciation for Hip-Hop, she decided to offer classes back home to prevent it’s fading away. She has taught workshops at NYU and Howard as well as neighborhood high schools and community centers. The non profit company she co founded with her husband, “Full Circle Prod” presented “Soular Power’d” on Broadway’s New Victory Theater which received rave reviews, and was their Hip-Hop theater directorial debut. The videos she’s appeared in feature her unique ability as a B girl ‘for example Fabolous’ “Holla-back Youngin”. She has been hired by Red Bull and the International Battle of the Year in Germany to judge break dance competitions. She is presently producing a documentary based on the challenging lifestyles of female break dancers featuring b girls from all over the world. She wrote the intro to the photo book by Martha Cooper “We B*Girlz” proving her credibility as a multitalented artist. She represents the positive image of a woman confident in both her Puerto Rican and Hip-Hop cultures. She believes this culture was born to help urban youth get through the ups and downs of life with something to hold on to.
Locking Master Class with Aiko
Saturday, September 19, 2009
10:30 am – 12:30pm
HCA - Studio 1A
All levels welcome. Learn basic funkstyles (Bay Area Style/Northern California) from international locking legend, Aiko of Jam Patrol and Collective 7 with 25 years of experience!
Aiko started street dancing at the age of 11 in the parks of California (San Jose) and performed by the age of 15 with her group, Quick Style, opening up for Ice T in 1983. This began a long list of performances, for major bands and singers which Quick Style opened up for in the Bay Area of California. In 1995 she began to teach street styles to the local youth in San Jose at the local youth centers and still does to this day. Aiko has been teaching after school programs for the past 7 years for YMCA and Catholic Charities. In the past 16 years of teaching street dance to the youth she has been writing a curriculum to add to her classes so that her students can embrace the history of Hip Hop and how it can be better than what the media has portrayed it to be. She has taught street styles everywhere in the states and most recently at the B-Girl Be 2007 in Minneapolis, Street Science 2008 in Holland, and The Film documentary release for “All the Ladies Say” in New York in 2009 (she is one of the leading Ladies in the film). She has been quoted saying “ Hip Hop has been there for me and has saved my life and I will be here for Hip Hop for the rest of mine.” - Aiko
Hip-Hop Composition 101 with “Teena Marie” Custer
Sunday, September 20, 2009
11:00am- 1:00pm
HCA- Studio 6B
All levels of choreographers welcome. Learn tips and tools to create the most dynamic dance pieces possible using hip-hop dance styles with internationally recognized choreographer and dancer "Teena Marie” Custer!! You can’t get this class anywhere else!
“Teena Marie” Custer is a b-girl and hip hop dance theatre artist. Her solo “The Be-Girl Diaries” was performed at the Breakin’ Convention in London, England, and in addition to theatrical works, she has won underground freestyle dance battles such as “Underground Movement 5,” Enter the Cypha I, and was also seen on an episode of MTV’s “Made.” Teena was most recently a featured dancer and assistant choreographer for the film “Leading Ladies” starring Benji Schwimmer and Melanie LaPatin from “So You Think You Can Dance.”