Travis Wall, Teddy Forance & Nick Lazzarini present the hottest new contemporary dance company in the country, Shaping Sound — soon to be featured on the Oxygen network in their own show “All The Right Moves,” which documents the creation of this amazing assembled group of dance visionaries, and stars Travis Wall, Nick Lazzarini, Teddy Forance and Kyle Robinson.
Shaping Sound Presents Come Together
Tuesday, May 8th, 2012 at 8:00pm
Saban Theatre – 8440 Wilshire Blvd, Beverly Hills, CA 90211
To Purchase Tickets – http://www.flavorus.com/cometogether
Newsies the Musical opened on Broadway on March 29, 2012, and Just Dance was there to catch up with the cast and creative team behind the new Disney musical including SYTYCD veterans Alex Wong, Thayne Jasperson and Evan Kasprzak. Video Below 🙂
In Living Color is coming back! FOX is rebooting the iconic 1990s sketch series, complete with Fly Girls! Check out what potential superstars are at the Los Angeles auditions for the Fly Girls 2.0. including SYTYCD veterans Allison Holker and Comfort Fedoke. Napoleon and Tabitha Dumo a.k.a. Nappytabs are choreographing, and Keenen Ivory Wayans is the executive producer. Video Below 🙂
Today I stumbled across this seriously unbelievable dance animation video. At fist I wasn’t sure if I would like an animated dance video. One of the things I love is the dancers themselves and I think there are so many ways that animation could miss the beautiful qualities of dance. However, this video not only captures many of the beauties of dance, but also carries them to a new level and adds new layers of commentary to the dance. Ok, don’t take my word for it. Here’s the video:
See what I mean? Now go watch it again. It gets better the more you watch it I think.
Since we cover the music and I’m sure you’ll ask if I don’t tell you, the video is to the song “World Spins Madly On”, performed by “The Weepies”. You can find more information about how this video came together on the Ryan Woodward Conte Animated website. I love this list of concepts behind what he was trying to accomplish:
The exploration of the drawing the human figure in a variety of creative approaches. Â This stems from years of teaching creative gesture drawing.
2d Animation. Â This process of animation revisits the passion in my early career as a 2d animator. The illusion of life!
Contemporary dance. Â Although I am not a dancer, I appreciate the talent and dedication that goes into a beautifully choreographed piece. Â A graceful moving human form can communicate more emotion that any length of dialogue.
and finally, the exploration of experimental processes and concepts contributes to my own personal growth as an artist. Â Having worked commercially for years, this project has allowed me to stretch beyond my former understanding of art.
Great story and I’m happy to say he’s a professor at the University that I attended. I wish I was planning to visit family sometime soon so that I could see the full exhibit. I could see many of the images from the video as a pretty amazing t-shirt as well. Maybe I should contact him about selling some on the site.
I also found this 5 minute preview of the documentary video that was made about the above animated video really interesting. I’ve embedded it below as well:
As a real true fan of dance, I absolutely love the merging of multiple art forms like this video. I’d love to see So You Think You Can Dance use it somehow on the next season. Talk about a perfect special guest performance I think. It would be completely unexpected for most viewers and would be awesome! Are you listening Nigel?
