PERFORMING ARTS
08.07.09
PERFORMING ARTS, Modern and Contemporary Dance, Popular Dance, Breakdance, Hip Hop
Last night, August 6th, I attended "Hip Hop Generation Next" - performed at 7:30pm outside at Damrosch Park Bandshell as part of Lincoln Center Out of Doors. The show was presented in collaboration with Dancing in the Streets and sponsored by Bloomberg. It included performances by Full Circle, FootworkKINGz, Chinese American Arts Council Martial Arts Society, Last For One, Lee In Soo Dance Project, and Baja + the Dry Eye Crew. There were five companies from three continents - from New York City to Chicago, from South Korea to Sierra Leone. The Martial Arts Society wowed the spectacularly large audience with its amazing stunts - flips, fighting sequences a la Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, breaking thick sticks against stomachs... The