Step Up Yo
Game
Date: July 15th
Time: 12pm-8pm
Where: Melbourne
Music Academy 53 Victoria St,
Melbourne
Link: (none)
$1200 in cash and prizes. 2on2 bboy
battles with popping, locking, hip
hop and krumping exhibitions
Throwdown 8 Date: July 8th
Time: 12pm onwards
Where: Footscray Community Arts Centre,
45 Moreland St Footscray
Link: Unitd
Styles
2on2 Bboy Battles, with O18 and U18 divisions.
$500 first prize for each division!
Dance2xs Auditions
Date: July 2nd
Time: from 11am
Where: Melbourne Music Academy, 53 Victoria
St, Melbourne
Link: Dance2xs Website
Dance2xs are running Jazz, Lyrical Jazz,
and Hip Hop auditions for all interested.
Patrick Chen Workshops
Date: July 1st
Time: from 12pm
Where: Melbourne Music Academy, 53 Victoria
St, Melbourne
Link: Dance2xs Website
International Guest and Director of Dance2xs
International will be teaching classes at
MMA. Don't miss this opportunity to learn
from the best!
Break! Date: June 21st - July 1st
Time: 7.30pm
Where: The Comedy Theatre
Link: Break
Show Website
Street Run 9
Date: June 17th
Time: 5.30pm
Where: Meet at TianJin Gardens outside Parliament
Station
Link: (none)
Bboy Lilou Workshop Date: May 18th
Time: 7.30 - 9.30pm
Where: Unitd
Styles
Link: (none)
The world famous Lilou from Pockemon Crew,
France is coming down! Easily one of the
best bboys in the world, and the current
Red Bull BC One Champion having beaten the
likes of Physix, Omar and Hong10, this is
an opportunity NOT to be missed.
GROOVE DANCE + CHASERS Date: May 12th
Time: 10pm - Late
Where: Chasers Night Club
Beatphonik Auditions Date: May 7th
Time: 2-4pm
Where: Unitd
Styles
Link: Beatphonik
Website
One of Melbourne's leading hip hop crews
will be holding auditions for new members
on May 7th at Unitd Styles. Visit the link
for more details.
Battle City
Date: May 6th
Time: 10am onwards
Where: Melbourne Exhibition Centre
Link: Unitd
/ EOC
2on2 bboy battles for $1200 and solo hip
hop freestyle showcases for $300. Previously
known as the New Apprenticeships Dance contest,
the Careers Expo has teamed up with Unitd
Styles to provide a fresh new competition
format!
Yasushi's Body Improvement Date: 1st Sunday per month
Time: 11am - 1.30pm
Where: Unitd
Styles
Link: Body
Improvement Flyer
Yasushi runs classes on injury prevention,
underexercise cancellation, body improvement
etc. It's a workshop not only for dancers,
but for athletes of all shapes and sizes.
$25 entry.
Freestyle Fever Date: April 25th
Time: 11am
Where: TheatreWorks, 14 Acland St, St Kilda
Link: Fever
Flyer
Under 16 dance comp with solo and crew bboy
battles. Free Entry!
Soul Survivor 2 Date: April 16th
Time: 2-7pm
Where: Unitd
Styles
Link: (none)
32 bboys in 8 crews of 4 bboys each. Elimination
format down to 31 losers and one soul survivor!
Melbourne Bboy History Date: April 8th
Time: 2-6pm
Where: Wesley House, 148 Lonsdale St, Melbourne
Link: Ozbboy
Forums
An open discussion forum for all to learn
about the origins of hip hop in Melbourne.
Meet and learn from our very own pioneers.
$3 entry
Get Krump'd! Date: April 7th
Time: 6pm
Where: Ukrainian Hall, Essendon
Link: (none)
Part of the Moonee Valley Youth Week activities,
crews from Melbourne will be performing,
with the winner to showcase at Queens Park
two days later.
Melbourne Music Academy, Dance
Orientation Date: April 2nd
Time: 11am - 6pm
Where: 53 Victoria St, Melbourne
Link: Dance2XS
site
Free Dance Classes All Day! Visit the link
to see the timetable of classes available
on the day.
Urban QuestFinals
Date: April 1st
Time: 4pm
Where: Dandenong Plaza
Link: (none)
City of Greater Dandenong's annual Urban
Quest dance competition.
Burn City Beat Street
Date: April 1st
Time: 3pm
Where: Various
Link: (none)
Meet at 3pm at Flinders St Station for an
open circle and jamming session with Melbourne's
bboys out on the streets in the CBD!
Vikings Dance Crew Auditions
Date: March 29th
Time: 8pm
Where: Urban Force Studios
Link: Vikings
News
Vikings are looking for new dancers to join
their crew. If you think you've got what
it takes to be in one of Melbourne's best
dance crews, be sure to turn up!
Vanilla Slam
Date: March 4th
Time: 7pm - 3am
Where: 911 High St. Thornbury
Link: Vanilla
Slam Flyer
Series one of seven starts March 4th. 8
bboy crews and 8 poppers will be battling
it out for $800 cash on the night!
Oz-Bboy Championships
Date: 25th February
Time: 1.30 - 5pm
Where: Glebe, Sydney
Link: (none)
8 of the BEST bboy crews from around Australia
battling it out in Glebe, Sydney. Iron Monkey
(Renegades) and Alieness (RSC / Zulu Kings)
will be judging.
RAW VIP
Date: 19th February
Time: 4 - 7pm
Where: Dallas Brookes Centre
Link: Vikings Dance
Hip Hop dance competition featuring a few of the best crews showcasing their talents for all.
MMA/Dance2xs Open Day Date: 19th February
Time: 4-8pm
Where: 53 Victoria St
Link: Dance2XS
Melboune Music Acadamy's Open Day featuring their dance branch for the first time. Free classes are available during the day.
Freestyle Fed Square
Date: 4th February
Time: 3pm - Late
Where: Federation Square
Link: Fed Square Flyer
Free all ages hip hop event featuring some of the best bboys and MCs duking it out on stage!
Melbourne
Bboy Conference
5 Days straight of bboying and
dancing madness!
workshops with some of the best in the world,
cyphers, discussion panels, and competitions.
You'll definitely want to be a part of the first
dance week of its kind in Australia.
The years biggest competition has
its construction underway and Groove will be sure
to keep you all updated! News on dates, qualification
rules and prizes are up!
ONE OF THE GREATEST HAS
LEFT US WE LOVE YOU, AND WE WILL MISS YOU
Skeeter Rabbit of the Electric Boogaloos
passed away a few days ago. The Electric Boogaloos
are one of the staple crews of the funk styles
history as they were the main pioneers of Popping,
Boogaloo and various other funk styles.
Groove
Dance Event at Chasers
(Update 1: 13th May)
The event was a success! Chasers
Night Club had an awesome crowd to dance to and
an awesome vibe and environment to chill in. Big
thanks to the performers and everyone who came
to support! We look forward to seeing you there
again!
(2nd May)
Groove Dance in partnership with
Chasers Night Club is bringing you all an event
especially for Groove Dance Members!
Make sure you don't miss this chance
to party just before the exam mode kicks in. The
Phat Controllers bboy crew will be performing.
Chasers Night Club, 386 Chapel St,
South Yarra, www.chasersnightclub.com.au,
Doors open 10am till late,
Dress standards apply, 9827 7379
Break!
Competition
Groove Dance in association with
Tiger Productions and Break! is pleased to announce
that THREE Double Passes to see the Premiere of
the award winning show Break! is
up for grabs!
An inaugural competition at the
Melbourne Exhibition centre featuring 2on2 bboy
battles for $1200 and solo hip hop freestyle showcases
for $300. Previously known as the New Apprenticeships
Dance contest, the Careers Expo has teamed up
with Unitd
Styles to provide a fresh new competition
format!
The day saw Fresh Sox take out the
Bboy Battles and Groove's very own Geoff win the
hip hop competition.
Results along with information,
pictures and videos are finally up!
Groove shot its commercial a few
days ago. Much thanks to all the dancers that
attended, and the cast and crew, and also to mother
nature for not raining on us!
The video is undergoing editing
at the moment, and should be ready for release
within two weeks.
Back Row from Left: Kevin (Liquid Xpress), Martin,
Deb (Liquid Xpress), Mandi, Geoff (TPC), Hide
(Mass Mayhem)
Front Row from Left: Reflex (KO), Leno (KO), Poppin
Fresh (KO)
Back Row from Left: Martin, Deb (Liquid Xpress),
Mandi, Geoff (TPC), Hide (Mass Mayhem), Leno (KO)
Front Row from Left: Reflex (KO), Kevin (Liquid
Xpress), Poppin Fresh (KO)
Ouch! Reflex (KO) and Geoff (TPC)
Soul Survivor
2 Results
(16th April)
Click on the battle names for links
to download from Megaupload.
Credits to wtfork for the footage.
CREWS
Art Tricks
Chosen Ones - Steve, Tien, Daz (Fresh Sox), ???
Bomb Biggy Bombs - JXL, Accomplice, Ninja, Nick
Pen Island - Ken, Elliot, Samir, Carl
Pokedots
Randoms - Dan (KO), Pta (TPC), Michael (Mass Mayhem),
Jason
Dota Allstars - JLow, Pat, Kevin, Eddie (Chosen
Ones)
Wickid Sox - Stash (Fresh Sox), Yasushi (Wickid
Force), Silenz (Fresh Sox)
SEMIS Randoms
v Chosen Ones (Daz qualifies
for final) Wickid
Sox v
DOTA Allstars (Silenz qualifies for final)
(Yasushi left the event early, leaving Silenz
to pair with a bgirl from the crowd.)
Congrats to Daz, who managed to
become the winner out of 31 bboys and claim the
title of Soul Survivor.
Big ups to everyone who attended and repped hard
in the open circles!
Get Krump'd
Results
(8th April)
Results are out! From 20 crews,
of which many were new and emerging crews, Beatphonik
managed 1st place ahead of crews such as Raydar
and Hi Voltage.
Urban Quest
Results
(1st April)
Results are out!
1st Place: Hi Voltage
2nd Place: Liquid Xpress
3rd Place: Beatphonik
Poppers
Boogie.T
Enigma
The Funk
Jesta
Inertia
Ray Pop
Winner: Adrian
The DVD Trailer came out just a few days ago!
Vanilla Slam DVD Trailer
Oz-Bboy
Championships
The 3rd annual Oz-Bboy Championships
was held 25th February. Fresh Sox managed to take
out Dancekool Gangsters (Sydney, Japan) in the
finals to defend their title for the third year
running!
Footage and coverage from the event
and also the Block Party the day before is complete!
Update 1 (24th February)
Thanks to all who came to sign up and watch our
performances. Despite the 32 and 36 degree days,
we had lots of fun and we look forward to seeing
you at class next week.!
Groove will be at the Concrete Lawn during O'Week
where you can sign up to become a member and receive
all our member benefits including all our free
classes for only $5!!!
The PHAT Controllers along with members of KO
will be performing for Groove at 1.30pm Wednesday,
11.15am Thursday, and 2pm Friday.
Be sure to check out our performances throughout
the day and sign up to become a member!
RAW VIP 19th February
RAW VIP was held today, featuring
7 crews;
Beatphonik
Filosophy
Funkey Fresh
NV-US
Replay
Sound Busters (Sydney)
X-Cape
With Caramell (Sydney) pulling out
last minute, and Filosophy and Sound Busters missing
a majority of their members, the event was set
for less hype than previously anticipated.
Raw 2 winners Funkey Fresh managed
to take out the competition and take home the
prize of $2000 cash plus various other goodies.
1st Place - Funkey Fresh
2nd Place - Beatphonik
3rd Place - Replay
FREESTYLE
FEDERATION SQUARE 4th February
In what turned out to be a hugely successful
event, many of the oz hip hop scene's elite performers
and artists turned out to entertain a massive
crowd at Federation Square.
Bboy Battles;
1st Place - Fresh Sox
2nd Place - The Phat Controllers / Hybrid Formz
Beatbox Battles;
1st Place - Solar
2nd Place - Oblivion
3rd Place - Halo
