Introducing…A LAP Dance Workshop Tour 2011
This series of workshops features me, Austin Lim, and choreographer Andrew Phan (AL AP, get it? hahaha) teaching at a handful of college campuses.
Dance2XS Purdue – West Lafayette, IN – April 23rd, 2011
(also the birth place of the RainDodgers Crew!!! Be exciteddd….)
ReFresh Dance Crew at Northwestern University – Evanston, IL – June 5th, 2011
Dance2XS UIUC – Urbana, IL – October 23rd, 2011
Also a guest appearance of performances by Random Pieces, featuring additional choreography by Teddy Chavez and Matt Pumanes
Animation Dance Troupe at NIU – DeKalb, IL – November 29,2011
In 2012, A LAP Dance workshops will be expanding to more college campuses, so keep an eye out for these opportunities to take classes with some of Chicago’s choreographers. Interested in booking A LAP Dance Workshops at your college campus? hit me up!
parking at this venue is a bitch. first of all the guy guarding the gates doesn’t speak english, but i dont have a problem with that. i DO have a problem with the fact that there are at least 10 parking spots in the parking lot he’s guarding. the other option is the northwestern college parking lot where they are constantly threatening to tow you. apparently, no one checks. just so you know.
Rot10 had the booth set up selling all kinds of new dope shit, my favorite being the “thats when she swallowed” tee lol. i got to see this design when gino showed us all the designs in vegas before they got printed.
just to clarify, yes that is a swallow roosting on the right side of the shirt lol. also, we have THE dopest rot10 brand hangers, blankets, gloves, and yes, even oven mitts.
i also learned through the help of Dance Central for the xbox kinect, that i fail at following all kinds of directions. fail one, you would think its pretty easy to stand in the right spot for the camera to see you, cuz the little graphical representation of you shows up in the corner of the screen. fail two, why are the people dancing doing so many things at the same time. seriously? i didn’t come to the rot10 booth to dance. fail three, i freestyle when i feel like it, not when there’s a break in the dance central remix of paparazzi. sorry gaga, nothing personal.
there are two videos of our performance on youtube that ive seen so far, i like this one the best…its taken from the balcony
since i didnt even look into my wallet until the next day, i didnt discover that all the money had been jacked. i mean, thats what happens when you leave all your shit zipped up in the side of a busted ass black bag kept under a coat under a chair upstairs in the performers dressing room. dear thief, thanks for only taking only my money instead of stealing my credit cards, driver’s license, car insurance, very valuable miscellaneous food and gas receipts, and the three bandaids i carry around.
and, andrew baterina’s people at homegrown were ridiculously dope. big ups to them for winning.
this is the piece i taught for Dance2xs UIUC when i went down a couple months back. its got a lot of story behind it.
in short, someone i used to look up to and respect called me out publicly on facebook (thats about as fuckin public as it gets) for “limiting myself to one style.” of course i choreograph in one style – my style. its fake as hell to choreograph like someone else. so in true passive-aggressive retaliation, i made this piece, exaggerating the stuff that is most MY style, and limiting my outside influences.
if you’ve listened to the lyrics of the song (or seen the hilarious music video, which you should), its about cee-lo who has given everything for some girl, but she still doesn’t care about him. i give so much of myself to my dance career, and for someone who i respected to be shitting on me is pretty damn serious. the best thing you can do is just put a cheesy ass grin on your face while saying ‘fuck you’
so fuck you im gonna keep doing me. hate me haters. keep feeding me.
Casey’s class:
let the drummer kick by citizen cope. the track was supposed to be at the end of our people are strange set from a year ago (super rando way to end that set, i know)…when i first heard the song i swore one of the things he said was “constipation.”
Teddy’s class:
beastly fuckin piece. i wake up sore the next day in the thighs and side no matter how many times ive done it. i also somehow managed to cut myself on my shoe (??who does that???) last night at rehearsal doing this piece
and my class from a couple weeks ago:
teenage dream, this was the class that got turned into the vid w davina in the previous post. as soon as manilastar tweeted about casey / teddy’s class i asked if they had my video and it was up in a day. go manilastar! i totally sucked in the short film, and i like the way it turned out in the vid from class better. so look at this lol.
im gonna keep doing me. hate me haters. keep feeding me.
