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-- bring planet b-boy to toronto !!!
bring planet b-boy to toronto !!!
2008 U.S release dates announced.
3/21 New York, NY - LANDMARK SUNSHINE
3/21 Los Angeles, CA - LANDMARK NUART
3/28 San Francisco, CA - LANDMARK LUMIERE
3/28 Berkeley, CA - LANDMARK SHATTUCK
3/28 San Diego, CA - Theater TBA
3/28 Washington, DC - LANDMARK E STREET THEATRE
4/04 Boston, MA - LANDMARK KENDALL SQUARE
4/11 Minneapolis, MN - LANDMARK LAGOON
4/18 Philadelphia, PA - LANDMARK RITZ @ THE BOURSE
4/25 Atlanta, GA - LANDMARK MIDTOWN ART
4/25 Seattle, WA - LANDMARK VARSITY THEATRE
5/02 St. Louis, MO - LANDMARK TIVOLI
http://www.planetbboy.com/
take a minute and send them a msg to bring this masterpiece to toronto
one love !!
Montreal's Lazy Legs > planet b-boy
Hell yeah!
i've been following this from the start... used to be big into breaking until I finally broke something
BBoy Puzzles reppin for the T.dot
Sick battle with two of the world best bboys...Sonic vs Pelezinho
Droppin that real shit!
Toronto needs to host the Red Bull BC 1 contest and bring the worlds best to our fine city, or even the IBE Notorious competition which in the past has been an awesome showcase. In any case, 1 Love for all the real flava and real bboys and bgirls doing their thang.
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Sonic is facking SICK!!! Check him out in IBE 2004 against Bboy MACHINE. Epic crew battles (US vs Germany/Denmark)
I love Pelezinho's spins though, the boys got some serious torgue!
Junior (France) --- Unbelievable upperbody strength, and a totally unique style.
Bboy MACHINE --> The best stateside bboy in my opinion (along with Roxrite and possible Omar). Strong footwork, style and powermoves.
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| Originally posted by Kytracid Sick battle with two of the world best bboys...Sonic vs Pelezinho Droppin that real shit! Toronto needs to host the Red Bull BC 1 contest and bring the worlds best to our fine city, or even the IBE Notorious competition which in the past has been an awesome showcase. In any case, 1 Love for all the real flava and real bboys and bgirls doing their thang. |
Re: bring planet b-boy to toronto !!!
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| Originally posted by Xavier Moriarty one love !! |
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| Originally posted by Owen M you just love the breaks eh? I'd goto a planet b-bot show if it was withn bus driving distance from my house. |
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| Originally posted by Xavier Moriarty check out their site and fill out that form. im trying to get it to toronto |
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| Originally posted by Kytracid Junior (France) --- Unbelievable upperbody strength, and a totally unique style. |
Your wish has been granted;
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| Bboy Unit Regional Elimination Canada Pre-Olympic Qualifications WHO WILL REPRESENT CANADA AT THE INTERNATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP? TORONTO, March 5 /CNW/ - Back to the Underground's Bboy Unit R.E. Canada is back for its second year, bringing Canada's far corners together again to clash for the title of number one bboy (breakdance) crew in Canada. Top crews from all over the nation will bring up to ten members on their squad to do battle in this modern day dancing martial art known as bboying. Beating their opponents with moves, not fists, as they battle for their chance at glory. The battleground is Toronto's renowned venue The Guvernment Nightclub. Each crew will go head to head in a bracket style elimination to be judged on creativity, fundamentals, battle strategy, execution and dynamics. The winner receives the title of Team Canada and ten free flights and accommodations to Seoul, Korea AND Beijing, China for the Bboy Unit World Championship. The finals are an official Pre-Olympic event and the world's biggest bboy competition. The some of the crews prepared to do battle include Toronto's own world famous Supernaturalz Crew, Montreal's Fresh Format, Ill-Mask, Ottawa's Canadian Floor Masters, Calgary's Original Roots, Central Canada's O-Mighty and last years returning champions F.A.M. DJ Starting From Scratch will be killing it on the wheels of steel and hosting this historic night will the notorious Lenny D from Hip Hop dance crew Do-Dat, with Starting From Scratch's on air partner in crime, Taboo. The art of bboying in Canada has never been seen at this level, until now. The clash of these seasoned dancers will be a night to remember. Tickets for Bboy Unit R.E. Canada will be available at Play de Record (Yonge and Elm). Doors on event day open @ 9pm. For further information including event details, visit www.backtotheunderground.com Back to the Underground has become known for their success carving an industry from the grassroots culture of bboying. These pioneers are creating educational programming in Toronto's high risk schools to invest in our youth and organizing local and international events for the existing community. They have been called "THE endemic site for bboying" in Toronto by J.D. Wheeler, Field Marketing Director for Redbull Canada. They are quickly becoming known for their innovations and accomplishments revolutionizing the urban dance community in Toronto. |
bboying???? BBOYING???? lol, jesus christ !!
now thats what im talking about. i strongly advise everybody to come and check this shit out !!!!!
one love !
one day we will rule the world !!!
one love !
Now if I can only dig up some old pictures with me and my crew from 1983.
Hey guys,
Im so hyped that y'all have a passion for the art of Bboyin,
I posted the Bboy Unit info on here a few days ago (check events listing in T-dot), with an added link to a review I found on here about last years event!
Check this link, for footage of last years event (Mod Club):
www.backtotheunderground.com
Here's a clip of Canada's own legendary Bboy Dyzee from Supernaturalz, winner of Rock Steady 2003, reknowned for his original and unique foot work patterns, and leading expert on threads:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=1WfK6i8jQHw
Here's one of R16 a crew show in the '88 Olympic stadium in Seoul, from last summer:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=bDG8Jw8VBxo
They're gonna be on Much MOD, this Thursday...
Come out to this years event... it's gonna be sooo DOPE!!
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| Originally posted by Xavier Moriarty lets get together sometime man, i think we're past due. lets get emz too. let me know when you get some free time, we'd like to see you, jelena says hi |
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| Originally posted by dEsidEL [color=white] man i don't think i've broke bones with all you guys since the Goldclub era |
Planet B-boy screenings and event at Hot Docs 2008. + Canada releases
Dear friends and family of Planet B-boy!
The film is beginning to reach places we never imagined, like Alaska, Hawaii, and Tennessee. We are excited to announce that Planet B-boy will be screening at this years Hot Docs Festival in Toronto. There will also be a very special event to honor the late great Frosty Freeze.
We are also excited to announce that the film has received Canadian distribution! This means that the film will be opening in select cities in May. Please stay tuned as we begin to announce the details shortly.
If you know of anyone who would like to receive updates about film screenings in Canada, the DVD release, and any other info relating to the film, please ask them to sign up for News updates:
www.planetbboy.com/ml_test/pbb_mailing_list.swf
SCREENINGS
Thursday, April 24
9:30 pm
Inns Town Hall
2 Sussex Avenue
(one block south of St. George Street and Bloor Street West)
Saturday, April 26
11:55 pm
The Bloor Theare
506 Bloor Street West
(at Bathurst Avenue)
To purchase tickets online, please visit:
http://hotdocsaudience.bside.com/20...boy_hotdocs2008
THE FREEZE TO PLEASE event
Friday, April 25
Doors open at 10 pm
Planet B-boy and Bboyizm presents:
The Freeze to Please (in dedication to Frosty Freeze)
Circa
126 John Street
Toronto, ON
Admission: $15
1 vs 1 b-boy / b-girl battle ($300 first place winner)
Battle registration: [email protected]
Judges:
Nemesis (breaks kru NY)
Benzo (bag of trix TO)
Trac 2 (salsoul crew NY)
Poppin demo from Frank Boogie (boogie brats crew)
Silent auction of graffiti for Frosty's Family
DJ's: DJ Serious and DJ Fathom
We thank everybody for their continued support and enthusiasm. Hope to see you all in theaters soon. Please let all your friends and family know that Planet B-boy is coming to Canada. Peace and much respect.
NEW PLANET B-BOY TRAILER
Planet B-boy coming to Toronto
Planet B-Boy will hit theatres May 30th!! Visit www.mongrelmedia.com for more details about the movie and youtube.com/mongreltrailers or www.planetbboy.com for trailers and dance clips.
The movie will be playing from May 30th at The Royal in Toronto (on College St.) Check it out!!
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| Originally posted by LindsayPai Planet B-Boy will hit theatres May 30th!! Visit www.mongrelmedia.com for more details about the movie and youtube.com/mongreltrailers or www.planetbboy.com for trailers and dance clips. The movie will be playing from May 30th at The Royal in Toronto (on College St.) Check it out!! |
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Toronto, N.Y. in B-boy film showdown
Two movies with one theme battle to become definitive documentary on breakdancing culture
May 25, 2008
Susan Walker
Entertainment Reporter
A battle of the b-boy documentaries is shaping up and it seems to call for a breakdance faceoff between Toronto and New York.
Toronto-born, New York-based filmmaker Benson Lee brought his Planet B-Boy documentary to Hot Docs last month and got up the nose of the Toronto crew Supernaturalz when the New Yorker, accompanied by a Manhattan b-boy, tried to co-opt them into a mini-battle at Circa nightclub.
It's only natural in the very competitive landscape of b-boying, graffiti drawing, emceeing and dj-ing that Lee's documentary Planet B-Boy, opening Friday, would spark rivalry from Toronto dancers supporting a local documentary All Out War, now in post-production.
Lee's doc is the first to chronicle the contemporary b-boy world with complete coverage of the supreme international competition, Battle of the Year. He profiles champion b-boys in Las Vegas, Korea, Japan and France to give a global view of the best b-boying and the socio/political/familial context for it.
Local filmmaker and media artist Rob Pilichowski has been working on All Out War since March 2003. His documentary traces the history of breakdancing and follows four dancers based in Toronto and New York. Alien Ness, a 44-year-old, original break-boy from the Bronx, provides some background. He is featured in the film alongside Dyzee, from the Toronto crew Supernaturalz; Casper, an up-and-coming b-boy, and Machine, both of whom sometimes "repp" Zulu Kingz, a Bronx crew.
The two films are quite different in style and substance, but share a common narrative.
As the story is frequently told, breakdancing began in the late '60s and early '70s in the Bronx, where the break-boys battled on the streets and in neighbourhood clubhouses. The form is linked to martial arts and resistance-type dances such as capoeira. The breaks are the rhythmic and percussive sections of songs � interludes in the main melody. DJs would strip out the breaks and put them in a loop for the dancers.
James Brown gets credit for inspiring the dance style. The music still preferred by hardcore breakers is funk, soul or hip hop with a more positive or older vibe.
B-boy history is oral and much contested. Some observers claim breakdancing grew out of the hip hop movement. The dancers themselves say hip hop tried to usurp them. When the music and the dance moves became commercialized in the 1980s, true b-boys went underground.
Benson Lee points out the effect of the 1983 movie Flashdance on bringing breakdancing into the public realm. His chroniclers insist that beat-boys (no relation to the Doobie Brothers' song) is the right derivation for b-boys.
Most Toronto dancers would say they are break-boys or girls.
Breakdancing became associated with inner city ghettos, says Lee. He's a Korean-American who was born in Toronto and lived here until he was 9. At the University of Hawaii, he got into film and earned his first producer credit on Miss Monday, a dramatic feature that opened at the Sundance Festival.
The overriding fantasy figures were gangs and pimps, Lee says of early b-boying. "They emulated the fighting and that's how this dance started out."
Breakdancing, he says, became a way "to promote peace, love and unity. They found ways to battle without hurting each other."
There's this fantasy world associated with hip hop, says a b-boy standing amid highrises in a housing project in All Out War (alloutwar.tv). It's about "that need to be somebody. You're backed up in a corner and your dreams are really shattered. You've got nothing to inspire you, then you find something that's really going to move you to the core: you're gonna dance.
"But it's really easy for some ghetto kid to come out and say `I got bodyguards; I got two big cars.' It's that desperation. It's that need to be somebody."
One of Lee's on-screen authorities is Ken Swift, a legendary b-boy from New York City. Lee calls him "the Baryshnikov of b-boys." He's in his early 40s now.
Planet B-Boy points out the Latino influence (mainly from Puerto Ricans) on the dance styles and then goes out into the world � using some fancy graffiti art graphics to shift scenes with a moving train image � to see the cream of the crop in France (B-boy Claude), Korea (top dancers Gamblerz), Japan (Ichigeki crew) and Las Vegas (Super Crew).
The movie hints at a certain resentment among American b-boys who have lately been eclipsed in the Battle of the Year competition by crews from Japan, Korea, Germany and France. But it's all friendly, Lee insists. "Hip hop has evolved to the point where it's uniting generations."
Rivalry between filmmakers is merely picking up on the competitive spirit of the breakdance genre, Pilichowski says. "You'll get different perspectives from different artists. Having more than one film on one genre is a good thing for the culture." He hopes to have All Out War entered in film festivals by the end of this year.
Planet B-Boy, opening on college campuses and in about 25 North American cities, is out to set the record straight with some thrilling footage that spreads the gospel according to break/beat boys.
No word yet on a battle of the b-boy film crews.
source:
http://www.thestar.com/entertainmen.../article/429628
if you're within 200clicks of ottawa jun 23 and you manage to miss this you were raised all wrong
(I'm actually thinking of going down that weekend instead of the canada day weekend, tough one, wat u sayin sketch?)
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