A while ago we posted a Blog titled “5 concepts to help you create” to give you some ideas of how to creatively develop your freestyle skills. We hope you found these concepts helpful and found some new ways of moving through trying them out. If you managed to create new movement, fantastic! If
On the 12th May, we took our competition crew TRNSCND to Bethnal Green in East London to compete in The Hotstepper UK. Since the new crew formed in September, this was our first competition together as a team. We trained hard for this event as a crew because we knew the standard would be super [&hel
In November last year, we decided to take our crew, TRNSCND to compete at the UK Street Dance Championships in Harrow, London. As we only started our training in September, we didn’t enter a group piece, but instead gave our young dancers the opportunity to compete as soloists and duos. For many o
Waacking emerged from the disco music of the gay nightclub culture of the late 1960s/1970’s in Los Angeles and was primarily a Black and Latino dance style. Blacks and Latinos had everything stripped away from them, their neighbourhoods were ghettos and What is they were fighting against this oppr
Hip Hop is a cultural movement which emerged from predominantly African-American and Latino economically depressed and deprived communities across East coast America, specifically the Bronx, in the 1970s. Hip Hop culture consists of 4 MAIN elements; Grafitti DJing Breakin’ (Commercially known as B
It’s National Careers week, and some of you may be at that vital stage where you are leaving school or college and are starting to think about your future career. The first thing we will say is DO SOMETHING YOU ENJOY! So much of your life will be spent in education training for your job […]
Back in December, we welcomed Laurence, AKA Crooked District through our doors, to teach us some Krump! This was the first krump workshop we had ever facilitated, and for many of the children, it was their first taste of Krump. Krump is a style we have only slightly touched on with Elevate Arts, but
This week (the 4th-10th February 2019) is Children’s Mental Health Week. When we think about being healthy, we often focus on our physical health and wellbeing – Things like what we eat/drink and getting enough sleep and activity. However, to be healthy overall, it is important we also look afte
Freestyle, in terms of dance, specifically street dance, is freedom of expression to music. It is how your body responds to the music, it is YOUR way of moving. In freestyle, the moves are not pre-thought out or choreographed, they are spontaneous, whatever happens, happens. EVERYBODY can freestyle.
Everyone struggles with mastering a move at multiple points in their dance careers, even the professionals…so don’t panic! We all find different things difficult and progress at different rates. Just because Bob has the move, you aren’t a “bad dancer” because you are struggling to get the
