PROGRAMS

HipHop Showcase (Dance)
Grade Level: K-6
Interactivity Level: Moderate
Overview: Custom tailored for various age groups, the urban dance showcase is well suited for large assemblies. The performance includes various dance performances and routines that take the audience on a journey through the history of HipHop Dance. Volunteers may be selected from the audience to help demonstrate some of the basic break dance moves and a short routine will be taught at the end of the demonstration!

HipHop Showcase (Music/Dance)
Grade Level: K-9
Interactivity Level: Moderate
Overview: Custom tailored for various age groups, the musical showcase is well suited for large assemblies. The performance includes a historical reference to different HipHop styles such as; "call-and-response", musical HipHop performance, a DJ turntable "scratch" demonstration, "beatbox" vocal percussion, and break dance routines. Volunteers may be selected from the audience to help demonstrate some of the DJ scratches and basic break dance moves. For older students, we also offer a historical overview of the HipHop culture, where students will learn the socio-economic conditions that forged the music we now know as HipHop.

HipHop Showcase: 2.0 (Music/Dance)
Grade Level: 10-College
Interactivity Level: Low
Overview: Custom tailored for various age groups, the musical showcase is well suited for auditorium or stage assemblies and student body events. The performance includes a call-and-response musical rap performance, a DJ turntable scratch demonstration, vocal percussion, and break dance routines. Volunteers may be selected from the audience to perform with the artists to demonstrate the level of talent that exists in their school.

Gym Class Breakdance Lesson (Dance)
Grade Level: K-6
Interactivity Level: High
Overview: As a special gym class lesson, you can have trained professionals with years of dance experience teach your students basic, low-risk dance moves (don't worry - no headspins), as part of a dance routine that can be learned in a single class session. Class sizes up to 50 a session and depend on workspace and room accommodation. Custom class and lesson plans can be sent before hand and meet most state curriculum dance and physical education requirements.

Music Class Hip-Hop Workshop (Music)
Grade Level: K-12
Interactivity Level: High
Overview: Students are given a brief history of HipHop music, and instructed in the arts of creative lyric writing, "beatbox" vocal percussion, and turntablism. Students will have a chance to experiment with the DJ equipment, and there will be a lyrical freestyle improvisational rap session at the end where students will have an opportunity to share their rhymes with the other students and record a class "rap" song.

Art Class Tutorial
Grade Level: 7-12
Interactivity Level: High
Overview: This package explores the visual arts aspect of HipHop in the form of unique lettering styles and character drawings known as "Urban Art". The tutorial begins with a brief history of HipHop art, and ends with an instructional session in which students can make their own mini-murals using the stylized letters of their own names. For a small premium students can demo the "aerosol art" aspect and create a "class mural".