Hip Hop is a cultural movement which emerged from predominantly African-American and Latino economically depressed and deprived communities across East coast America, specifically the Bronx, in the 1970s. Hip Hop culture consists of 4 MAIN elements; Grafitti DJing Breakin’ (Commercially known as B
It’s National Careers week, and some of you may be at that vital stage where you are leaving school or college and are starting to think about your future career. The first thing we will say is DO SOMETHING YOU ENJOY! So much of your life will be spent in education training for your job […]
Back in December, we welcomed Laurence, AKA Crooked District through our doors, to teach us some Krump! This was the first krump workshop we had ever facilitated, and for many of the children, it was their first taste of Krump. Krump is a style we have only slightly touched on with Elevate Arts, but
This week (the 4th-10th February 2019) is Children’s Mental Health Week. When we think about being healthy, we often focus on our physical health and wellbeing – Things like what we eat/drink and getting enough sleep and activity. However, to be healthy overall, it is important we also look afte
Freestyle, in terms of dance, specifically street dance, is freedom of expression to music. It is how your body responds to the music, it is YOUR way of moving. In freestyle, the moves are not pre-thought out or choreographed, they are spontaneous, whatever happens, happens. EVERYBODY can freestyle.
Everyone struggles with mastering a move at multiple points in their dance careers, even the professionals…so don’t panic! We all find different things difficult and progress at different rates. Just because Bob has the move, you aren’t a “bad dancer” because you are struggling to get the
In the summer, we ran another of our 5 day Urban Dance Camps. We had veterans there who have attended every single camp – to complete beginners. We had teenagers alongside pre-schoolers, but they all managed to get along so well and produce some fantastic work together! We could tell some of them
Eximius, our dance crew from Berrymede Junior School were lucky enough to be selected (for the 2nd year running) to perform in stage at the London Youth Games (LYG) finals opening ceremony at Crystal Palace National sports centre on 5th July. It was an early start, we met at the school for 7am and h
In June, we welcomed Corrie ‘Corrieography’ King to Elevate Arts to deliver a freestyle & choreography based workshop to our students. This was the second specialist workshop we have organised and it went just as well as the first one! Our aim is to bring in top dance specialists who have p
So you may have read our previous blog about our school crew, Eximius, competing at the Great Big Dance Off regional heats? Well, we placed 3rd in the London heats which meant we would go up against the winners of the other 8 regions in the Nationals. That is over 30 groups! In the lead […]