My love of dance movies, especially crappy dance movies, could probably all be traced back to Breakin'. In 1984 I wasn't exactly the hippest girl on the block (after all it isn't easy to be hip when you're nine years old), but when my dad took me to see Breakin' I thought this was the beginning of a long and industrious career as a B-girl. So, as you can probably guess, it didn't quite work out that way, but thanks to Breakin' I still listen to Rufus' Ain't Nobody featuring R&B legend Chaka Khan (which first appeared on Rufus' album Stompin' at The Savoy) .
Breakin' was directed by Joel Silberg and centered on the dancing duo of Turbo (Michael Chambers) and Ozone (Adolfo Quinones), who team up with Kelly, a pampered jazz dancer (played by Lucinda Dickey) in a battle with a rival dance crew by the name...
Breakin' was directed by Joel Silberg and centered on the dancing duo of Turbo (Michael Chambers) and Ozone (Adolfo Quinones), who team up with Kelly, a pampered jazz dancer (played by Lucinda Dickey) in a battle with a rival dance crew by the name...
- 11/27/2009
- by Jessica Barnes
- Cinematical
"I decided to take a risk. I didn't want to be a slave to the dance forms of the period," says Sergio Trujillo, choreographer of the new Broadway musical "Memphis," a celebration of rock 'n' roll's roots in the rhythm and blues (then called "race music") of 1950s Memphis. Speaking on the phone from Chicago, where he is working on the choreography for his next project, the Broadway-bound musical "The Addams Family," Trujillo explains, "I felt it was important for me to consider a younger audience and to make the choreography cool and hip and interesting and fresh for them, and also to push myself as a choreographer to come up with my own signature."Though decidedly a period piece, "Memphis" required little additional research on Trujillo's part, because over the past eight years he has become somewhat of a specialist in rock 'n' roll dances of the '50s and '60s.
- 11/25/2009
- backstage.com
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