2008 Woodie Awards
Dance Crew Entertains At Spring Weekend Kickoff
Christopher Duray
Issue date: 4/23/08 Section: News
Despite the fact that most of their members were absent, a hip-hop break dancing crew played to a large crowd of students at Jorgensen Tuesday at the Spring Weekend Rally. After the demonstration, SUBOG handed out free T-shirts and goody bags filled with whistles, flashlights, bandages and condoms.
The event was organized by SUBOG and the dancers were introduced by SUBOG's vice president of programming, Jen DuBois.
Because of car troubles, only two of the six dancers scheduled to perform actually appeared; but dancers Kid Dynamo and Honey Rockwell, managed to put on several routines. In one, Kid Dynamo traveled the stage on roller-skates, occasionally doing a cartwheel, spin or mime routine.
During the rally, students were invited on stage to show off moves of their own, starting with one-on-one dance battles and culminating in a 21-person crew dance-off.
Honey Rockwell stopped the show at one point to explain more about breakin' culture, saying that the phrase "break dancing" was an inaccurate one made popular by the 1970s media.
"Hip hop is a general term combing other elements," she said - namely, emceeing, DJ-ing, graffiti art, break dancing and clothing.
She also downplayed some elements of the genre, like vandalism.
Many of the students only showed up for free T-shirts, avoiding the dancing, but others expressed a great interest in the spectacle.
"I really liked the end show the dancers put on," said Anna Rush, an 8th-semester civil engineering major.
Others were impressed by the efforts of their fellow students.
"[The student dancing] was awesome," said Caitlin McFarlane, and 8th-semester nutritional science major. "It was a real eye opener."
Contact Christopher Duray at
Christopher.Duray@UConn.edu.
The event was organized by SUBOG and the dancers were introduced by SUBOG's vice president of programming, Jen DuBois.
Because of car troubles, only two of the six dancers scheduled to perform actually appeared; but dancers Kid Dynamo and Honey Rockwell, managed to put on several routines. In one, Kid Dynamo traveled the stage on roller-skates, occasionally doing a cartwheel, spin or mime routine.
During the rally, students were invited on stage to show off moves of their own, starting with one-on-one dance battles and culminating in a 21-person crew dance-off.
Honey Rockwell stopped the show at one point to explain more about breakin' culture, saying that the phrase "break dancing" was an inaccurate one made popular by the 1970s media.
"Hip hop is a general term combing other elements," she said - namely, emceeing, DJ-ing, graffiti art, break dancing and clothing.
She also downplayed some elements of the genre, like vandalism.
Many of the students only showed up for free T-shirts, avoiding the dancing, but others expressed a great interest in the spectacle.
"I really liked the end show the dancers put on," said Anna Rush, an 8th-semester civil engineering major.
Others were impressed by the efforts of their fellow students.
"[The student dancing] was awesome," said Caitlin McFarlane, and 8th-semester nutritional science major. "It was a real eye opener."
Contact Christopher Duray at
Christopher.Duray@UConn.edu.
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