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...also suggested as a remedy. Chang and Pringle, now lithe and limber, are part of the 13-woman CDT, whose performance this weekend, “I want to be…MADE,” promises to be anything but awkward. With a routine containing pom, jazz, and funk sections—loosely organized around the MTV-style theme of fame and stardom—CDT’s performance will combine impressive athleticism, graceful lyrical dance, and incredibly sexy energy. The CDT spend most of its year intensely preparing for the National Dance Alliance Collegiate Championship in Daytona...
...possible she was merely adding her name to a long list of “samplers” in rap history. From its roots in Jamaican reggae and dub, hip-hop has always relied on the creative reuse of prerecorded material. Starting from simple looped beats of disco and funk tracks (think “Rapper’s Delight” and their shameless use of Chic’s “Good Times”), sampling quickly evolved into montage masterworks by artists like EPMD, the Beastie Boys, and De La Soul.But, not surprisingly...
...commitment to dance. “I wanted to do something that would enable me to choreograph and to use all of the styles that I had learned over the years,” she says. “Expressions, with its emphasis on student choreographed hip-hop and funk pieces infused with jazz and lyrical...was the perfect fit.”With her choreography for the 2004 Cultural Rhythms show, Cloud created an unprecedented fusion of diverse styles. “I set [my] piece to an old techno song by Prodigy and literally taught the women...
GNARLS BARKLEY ST. ELSEWHERE Rapper Cee-Lo and producer Danger Mouse (he of the gene-spliced Grey Album--a mix of the Beatles' White Album and Jay-Z's Black Album) present the best psychedelic soul record since the P-Funk era. Cee-Lo has Bobby Womack-style chops and a willingness to get vulnerable, but Danger Mouse replaces all the moldering soul tropes--over-the-top strings, key-changing hysterics--with minimalist bass lines, trippy samples and planetariums full of crunchy galactic sounds. The result on Necromancing, Just a Thought and the superb Crazy (the first single...
...area of work from one field to another.” Kabir ultimately chose hip-hop because it allowed him to combine elements of a variety of musical genres, he added. “I moved into hip-hop because I could include elements of Indian music, jazz, rock, funk, soul, R&B, or any other style that worked for the song I was writing at that time,” Kabir said. Kabir said that hip-hop is a perfect tool for political commentary. “I’m interested in the revolutionary potential...