Yo peeps this is 3 days of Move It madness 2008, edited together by our main man Jaymondo as a little reminder of the funk! Enjoy, and if you were there let us know when and where we saw you and if you have any photos email them to us at office@urbanstrides.com and we will put them up, drop us a comment below and spread the luv! Have a good Easter!x

I have been asked to do a lecture for over 100 young people on the urban scholars programme.  This is a programme set up to help people achieve their full potential.  I will be talking about the dedication, sacrifice but ultimately the feeling off fullfilment you have when you start to realise your dreams. I will be talking about the positivity needed when things don’t go as planned and how to keep on going no matter what, ( you know, light subject matter?!) Hopefully by sharing some personal experiences it should be interesting, if not it will just be me chatting rubbish on stage in front of over a 100 young people, standard fare really! should be fun! If you were at the lecture let me know what you thought feedback is always appreciated.  have a good weekend!

keep dancin

Andy

I have had a lot of requests for my music I used at move it. The warm up cd was a mix tape I received from a friend in LA and I have no idea what it was called.  The routine we did was an instrumental and was given to me by a student of mine in Liverpool again I have no idea who the artist is! Sorry I can’t be of more help but now you have heard the style of music I use hopefully that will spur you on to follow your own music journey.  I have spoken to Dj smokey (a good friend, hip hop head and all round music officiando!) and he will put up a list of old skool hip hop tunes that should start you off so keep your eyes peeled!  The other CD I used was my own compilation album and street dance tutorial “Urban Dance explosion” there may still be a few copies left, you can buy it in our dvd section on the website.

p.s. Smokey’s blog will appear in the culture category of the blog

keep dancin

Andy

March saw us return to Move it for 4 days of dancing madness! 6 sold out workshops, 2000 students, and 3 performances.  If you weren’t there find out how it went and read our feedback.

Move it was sick!  Classes were off the hook the feedback we received from you was awesome,thank you so much, it reminds us that we are doing the right thing.  I was so pleased at the interest we received in our authentic approach it re invigorated my faith in the dancers of today and tomorrow.  It seems many people have forgotten the need for foundation and education so respect to all you who came and did the Urban Strides taster class.  As for our performances thank you so much to the comments we received it was so great to hear that you enjoyed it so much.  If you felt our performance inspired or interested you let us know, thank you so much for all the comments left so far it means so much to us.   Let us know what you think, we appreciate any feedback, thanks for taking the time.

keep dancin

Andy

 p.s. we are waiting for the videos of all our performances they will be up here as soon as we get them! and check back soon to see our photos from the weekend

We have our big, “Move It” weekend coming up! Following on from the success of our “Move It” experience last year we have been asked to do twice as many workshops as last year, we are now doing two a day in the main metro urban Space where you know we will being smashing the place, US style! Last time I heard all of my workshops were sold out but I heard there may still be some available on Sunday in the 12-16 class 12.45-1.30 pm if you want to come and dance your face off book now at dance London to avoid missing out log on to www.dance-london.co.uk and go to Sunday’s classes.

After serving the main stage last year we have also been asked to perform everyday! It’s been missions rehearsing all during half term, as well as 14 hrs a weekend! The official dance crew have been making us all proud putting in the hardcore training to make sure we can truly represent. We have our beatbox show on Friday with “Experimental” we are trying out some new shizzle so it would be cool to get your feedback, we will performing on the main stage at 16.45-17.15

Saturday will be the same set we did for our arena tour last December, if you missed us at the O2 arena, come down and show the luv it will be on from 15.30-16.00, you need to see it live – it’s not quite the same on you tube!

Following on from an inspirational week of locking with boogaloo and locking legend Suga Pop I have been passing down the authentic nature of locking and will be showing our first piece in a long line of locking sections in the breakbeat section on the main stage between 11.45-12.15. It would be good to see you there come down and say hi we will be at stand no.34

Hope your all good.

Peace, Andy