I just got an update from my friend Katsumi of Orientarhythm on his latest project. He’s been experimenting with projected visuals and dance for a while now, and his latest effort is extremely impressive. Katsumi developed this piece for a performance on a Japanese TV program in front of a live audience - whose reactions shared my enthusiasm. [...]

School’in Session, presented by B-terps and a host of other organizations at Univeristy of Maryland, College Park.  A 2 vs 2 battle, with over 50 groups of 2 that entered.  Judges were Toyz, Gunjack, and Spirit.  DJ Fleg was jockeying the discs.  All ingredients for a dope jam, and all that was left was to [...]

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What a beautiful day.  Under a clear October sky, surrounded by art and the best of company.  One of the highlights was seeing Javier and Rene battle together and do amazingly well, I’m mad proud of them, they  stuck all their stuff hard.  Now, for some reason, Sonny exercised some poetic license and chose to register [...]

So I volunteered at the Cherry Blossom Festival (Sakura Matsuri) a while back as a translator for the performers that were coming from Japan, and by a stroke of awesomeness a Japanese dance group came that specializes in Hip Hop dance… with nunchucks…  Basically, they’re hip hop ninjas.  They’re called Orientarhythm, and their concept is [...]