PRE-Registration for the Soulidify 10th Anniversary 2 on 2 anything goes (open style) battle is now closed!

If you would like to register please show up at 5pm to register as the battles will start promptly at 6pm.

Join us at Casa de Cultura for Soulidify’s 10 year anniversary celebration!

2-on-2 Open Style Battle: $400 cash prize.

Casa de Cultura
1901 San Pablo Avenue
Berkeley, CA

August 29 at 5:00pm – August 30 at 12:00am

DJs:
…Sivan “Party Rocka Supreme”: Hip-Hop, Soul, Funk, Latin
CoFlo & Steve Rigmaden: House, Afro, Broken-Beat

Judges:
jZon (FLO-ology)
Free (Soulshifters / Circle of Fire)
Erik Thorough (Soulshifters / Soul Control)

Soulidify was created out of a desire to bridge the gaps between the many styles of dance out there. It stemmed from the inspiration of going to Club Shelter at Hubbert St. in 1997-98. It was amazing how so many styles of dance were getting loose in the same circle with the most amazing energy. It was like a feeding frenzy of dancers feeding off of each other. African dancers, tap, bboys, house, ballet. So many people just plain and simply getting loose. It was a camaraderie that I was not used to in the bay at that time. Souldify was an attempt to try and bring that feeling to the bay….

Its a new video to MindBodyFLO.com but an Old video on Youtube. Just moving over a video from 2005 into the MindBodyFLO archive. If nothing else its surely a beautiful track.

I thought it necessary to hit you guys with a little West Coast love since in the House Dance scene, since the West Coast is vary rarely thought of. There are many, many talented dancers (in the house music genre) in California – one of my absolute favorites is the Vibe Tribe (mainly based out of San Diego). Yes that is correct San Diego actually listens to house music – I know what your thinking, “Beaches, Burritos and Cyphers”? The Vibe Tribe has been inspiring me for many years not only with their talent in dance movement but also with their representation of the dance scene on the West Coast. They have started their own chapter, leaving their own mark on the House Dance Culture in the West Coast – good shit my boys!

Enough praise – I’ll let their feet speak for themselves. Here is the Vibe Tribe with a few special guest (Danny and Taka):

Dancers (from left to right) Larry, Houston, BG, Taka, Danny, Vinh:

Tsunami (FLO-ology / Soulshifters) and Kool Raul (Supreme Soul / Beats N Pieces) where used in a new online video game launching soon – about dancing. The game is called “Dance Groove Online”, it encompass such features as letting a player upgrade their character by learning new dance moves, creating crews, and battling. WOW SOUNDS AMAZING! Check out the game and more here – http://dancegroove.outspark.com/

Here is a video that was released officially from Outspark:

And here is a video that Tsunami made – behind the scenes!:

House Dance Conference 2009 San Francisco! This event was not to be missed, for those of you who did – just ask somebody (enough said). Although its been a week since the event, the timing is appropriate that we give props to those of you who came out and made it happen. In the words of Brian “Footwork” Green him self, “The House Dance Culture is about the love and togetherness” – HDC SF was the perfect example of like minded people coming together for the love of music and dance. Again, thank you, thank you, thank you, to all of you who supported – we will certainly do this again. Much respect to the dance crews who showed the conference love: FLO-ology, Soul Sector, Vibe Tribe, Open House, Renegade Rockers, Head Hunters, House Shoes, Dance Fusion, Supreme Soul, FLOorganics, Soulshifters, Beats-N-Pieces, Fresh Dynamix, DS Players, Groove Mechanix (if I missed your crew, i didn’t mean too we got love for all!). Major props to all of our contestants that entered the comp and a big and justified congratulations to Ritchie from Open House in LA for taking home first place and $500! A very special thank you to Brian “Footwork” Green for allowing us to host and organize the San Francisco chapter of his House Dance Conference. Keep coming back to MindBodyFLO.com for more info on the next House Dance Conference SF (It will be bigger and better we promise!).

Make sure you check out the video archive of all the prelim’s, battles and showcases. http://mindbodyflo.com/video

Here is the Judge’s demo from Brian “Footwork” Green, Shan S, and Bay Area Legend Patrick Wison:

Tsunami will be teaching a weekly class to share a variety of techniques from her own experience ranging from Ballet, Modern, House and Freestyle to name a few!
East Bay Arts High School – Tuesday Nights 7:00-8:30pm

About Tusnami:

As San Jose native, Tsunami has performed and shared her passion through dance and movement for over 25 years. Formally trained and national champion in classical ballet, lyrical, tap, and modern, today she embraces all aspects and styles of dance. Tsunami’s versatility for movement shines through in house, b-girling, hip hop, capoeira (brazilian martial art), as well as holding national and world titles in artistic roller skating.

In the early 90’s she began her journey into the underground House and Hip-Hop scenes in the San Francisco bay area. Here is where she began to blend and experiment her classical training with a more free and abstract range of movement. House music became a passion and a natural release of energy for her to express emotion through rhythm and dance. She performed for 4 years as a San Jose Saberkitten (Arena football league) and taught ballet, tap, jazz and urban dance at Dance Academy USA in Cupertino for children ages 3-16.

Tsunami left the Bay Area for about 10 years to seek an education in Architecture and explore the dance scenes of San Diego, Los Angeles and New York. She received her Bachelor of Architecture degree in 2004 from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. At this time she studied the dialogue of b-boying/b-girling, trained consistently in capoeira, performed and taught with Culture Shock NY and continued her growth within her own freestyle. Being solely independent from a young age she worked full-time through college and learned the true value of determination and setting goals. Her most important goal was to find and keep a balance between her two passions: Architecture and Dance. She has taught, competed and performed on both the West and East coast, danced in music videos for DJ Colette and The Pink Spiders as well as toured throughout the Netherlands.

In 2007 Tsunami returned to the Bay Area and is currently working as a Project Manager for a small Architecture firm in Los Altos designing custom homes and preparing for her exams to become a licensed architect. She is also currently working with FLO-olgy doing performances and event coordination for MindbodyFLO.com. She is looking forward to teaching classes at East Bay Arts High School to contribute and create an outlet for arts education, cultural unity and to educate the value of technique and self expression.

Each class will offer something new: focusing on musicality, versatility, use of space, rhythm and style. Tsunami believes that classic dance technique is a critical element for developing strength of the core, posture, poise and can be infused into today’s urban dance styles. Theory, history and vocabulary will be a part of each class.

So what are you waiting for!!!! Come check out a class!

$8 per class/$84 for all 12 classes

East Bay Arts – Dance Studio 3
20450 Royal Ave, Hayward, CA 94541
Contact: An Ta 510.317.4418 SuperAnTa@gmail.com

This last week we had alot of cool people in town for House Dance Conference. One good friend of ours “Eriko”, from Japan, (currently resides in NY) was hanging out and gettin’ down. The other day while Oj, Ten, Alex and I were on lunch break (we all work in Union Square) – we decided to shoot some video right quick for Eriko to take home. What you are seeing is a product of a bunch of friends chillin out and eating beats for lunch.

Dancers: Eriko, Co FLO, Ten, Alcoholex

Shot and Edited: Oren Ferrari

Music: Simon Grey “The Galatica Suite”

Peace!

Join us as FLO-ology and Brian “Footwork” Green are hosting the official “House Dance Conference” of New York for the first time on the west coast! We are lucky enough to be able to bring this incredible dance culture conference to our home of the San Francisco Bay Area.

Good Music, Good People, Dope Competition!

1 on 1 – Head to Head House Dance Competition

$500 PRIZE!

Judges: Patrick Wilson (Bay Area), Shan S. (NY), Brian “Footwork” Green

DJ’s: Patrick Wilson, Shan S., Cecil (The Peoples)

When: October 4th, Sunday – from 7pm to 2am.

Where: Temple Night Club “The Catacombs” – 540 Howard St, San Francisco, CA 94105

How Much: (Limited 50 Pre Sales @ $12) Pre-Registration/Pre-Sales online.
For Guarantee entrance to contest please buy pre-sales and pre registration online.
Doors open at 7pm contest starts at

8pm!!!!

ONLINE TICKET SALES AND PRE REG NOW CLOSED

See you at the door

UPDATE!

Shan S House Dance Workshop online Tickets CLOSED!

We got a couple new dance clips of Co FLO. One, a short little ground combo that was @ Icons in San Francisco (clip is a bit dark). The other Co FLO’s “in need of the song to start” judges show case @ Zen Lounge in Mtn View for the Soul Select 1v1 all styles battle. A quick shout out and congrats to Lil-B (AOV, Academy of Villains) for his win that evening – great job!

Make sure to check out the MindBodyFLO video archive for more dope clips! – http://mindbodyFLO.com/video

Co FLO Judges show case (song is Oh Lord, Kenny Dope Rmx):

Co FLO ground combo (quick clip):

Waaking / Punking Workshop

With Tiffany Bong

When: Saturday 3:30pm – 5:00pm
Where: ODC Dance Commons 351 Shotwell Street San Francisco CA, 94110
How Much: $16

Tiffany Demo:

Tiffany Choreo: