Thursday, March 29, 2012

Video: The-Dream - Kill the Lights [ft. Casha]


Here is the latest clip from The-Dream, from his next album which hopefully coming this Winter.

Monday, March 26, 2012

Video: Far East Movement feat. LMFAO - Live My Life

Red Foo joins the Far East boys on the Party Bus for their new clip.

Essay: Who Can Dance?



It was mentioned to me on the weekend that someone might ‘not feel right’ about doing a dance style if they were not a part of the culture that dance style originated from.  This was in respect of K-Pop and poses an interesting question. 

Can you feel ‘right’ doing a dance style that originated in another culture?

Of course you can.  Starting out as a pre-dominantly Hip-Hop dance school, you’d think this issue would have been raised with us before.  How can a bunch of ‘Aussies’ co-opt Hip-Hop and claim it for their own?  ‘Aussies’ don’t understand about being raised in the projects and having Hip-Hop as their only outlet for culture.

Of course we don’t, and we don’t pretend to.  We all have our own connections to music and dance and film and whatever form of culture.  I grew up loving Hip-Hop because I was poor and felt that Hip-Hop represented me a little better than the middle-class pop stars littering the airwaves.  Other people like the beats.  It’s all good.

K-Pop is in a similar position to where Hip-Hop was in the 80’s.  It’s becoming a global phenomenon and people justifiably wonder why everyone else in every corner of globe is jumping on bandwagon.  I don’t want to get into a discussion here about the shrinking planet and global connectivity, but the moral of the story is, we don’t own our culture anymore.  I may love the Hilltop Hoods, but some dude in France may love them even more, and who am to tell him he can’t listen to them?   

As a dance school (I like ‘dance community’ better), our job is to teach you to dance, help you get fit and introduce you to other people who like dance.  It’s also to realise a dream, however big or small that dream may be. 

For me, the dream is indulging my fantasy of being Justin Timberlake for an hour a week at Beginners Hip-Hop.  Maybe it’s a pipe-dream, but there’s always the chance it’s not, however stacked the odds against it may be.  That’s why we do anything, because it might be the first step to something great!

That’ something great’ for you might be to dance like G-Dragon or Daesung, or any other K-Pop luminary.   Is anyone else going in Adelaide going to help with that?  Unfortunately, the answer is no.  Knowing that that void exists, and knowing that we have the tools to help, is what drives us to change and adapt to your needs.

If you’re a dance teacher, and you can teach a dance that might be foreign to you, but loved by others; teach it.  You’ll b helping a bunch of other people to enjoy themselves, and that’s a great thing. 

And what we do here, and have been doing here for many years. – is to try and work out what that dream is for each student and do the best we can to fulfil it.

We might not always succeed, but we’ll always die trying.

K-Pop classes are every Saturday 1pm-2pm

Friday, March 23, 2012

Video: Korallreven, “Sa Sa Samoa (Elite Gymnastics Remix)”


A few old school ravers will find this video scarily familiar, and the middle part of this track will have them grabbing the nearest Onion magazine and finding somewhere to relive the glory days.  A sweetly uplifting Jungle track that segues into something completely foreign and industrial and raw.  The ecstacy and the agony of dance music at its core.


わめく▷ ⎛VISUAL⎠ from ELITE GYMNASTICS on Vimeo.

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Video: Jay-Z's South by Southwest concert from last night - In FULL


Apparently it was pretty awesome, so I'm going to check it out now.  All y'all click on the link below and y'all can watch it too!

Watch it HERE

Video: Diplo feat. Nicky Da B - Express Yourself


Thanks to Pitchfork once again for being on top of the video premiere game - Diplo assists New Orleans Bounce protagonist Nicky Da B with this trippy piece of stuttering booty music.

Friday, March 9, 2012

Video: Usher - Climax


Usher's stellar new single (and one of my favourites of the year) 'Climax', has a video.  Check it out below.

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Video: Gorillaz/Andre 3000/James Murphy - Do Ya Thing


This Converse collaboration could've been a disaster, but with these three talents behind the boards, you really couldn't go wrong.  And whilst the track isn't a instant smash, it has grown on me and becomes very addictive.  The video clip is instantly iconic however, with it's mix of animation and reality, a warped Jamie Hewlett world of shared housing and sweat collectors.