Chairperson - Sandra Bell Kirchman
Phone: 745-2000
Email: sandra@myedac.com

Note: There is a need for someone connected with the Performing Arts (comedy, music, acting, or other kind of performing) to step up to the plate. Sandra is filling in until such a person arrives, someone who wants to promote the Performing Arts in Esterhazy & District, who wants to help performers in the area do their thing more easily and help audiences in the area have the opportunity to view some of the best right here in beautiful downtown Esterhazy, Spy Hill, Gerald, Stockholm, Dubuc, Tantallon, Atwater, or anywhere else in the district where the love of performing abides...

B-Boy/B-Girl Dance Workshop with Flipped Out Crew from Regina featuring their own real live DJ

Date: Saturday, March 6, 2010
Time: 1-5pm
Place: Esterhazy High School, Junior High Gym
Registration: A small ($2 or less) registration fee will be charged - spectators will be admitted free
Pre-registration is preferred (see contact info below) - payment can be made at the door.
(Refreshments will be available.)

B-boying (and B-girling) is coming to Esterhazy and District soon. Some of us might scratch our head and ask, "What the heck is B-boying?" We might even make the stretch to think it somehow connected to breakdancing, a term we are familiar with since the 1970s. Close, but not exactly right. Here's what Wikipedia has to say about B-boying.

Breaking or b-boying, commonly called breakdancing, is a style of dance that evolved as part of hip-hop culture among Black and Latino American youths in the South Bronx during the 1970s. It is danced to both hip-hop and other genres of music that are often remixed to prolong the musical breaks.

There are four basic elements which form the foundation of breaking. The first is Toprock, a term referring to the upright dancing and shuffles. The second element is Downrock which refers to footwork dancing performed on the floor. The third element is the Freeze, the poses that breakers throw into their dance sets to add punctuation to certain beats and end their routines. The fourth element of b-boying is the Power Moves. These are the most impressive acrobatic moves normally made up of circular motions where the dancer will spin on the floor or in the air.

Though widespread, the term breakdancing is looked down upon by those immersed in hip-hop culture. This is because the word breakdance is a term created by the media to describe what was called breaking or b-boying in the street. The majority of the art form’s pioneers and most notable practitioners refer to the dance as b-boying.

Whatever they call it, it's playful, refreshing, and takes very high levels of rhythm, physical fitness, grace, agility and acrobatics, and, from what I see, a pretty hard head. I have no idea how they are going to teach the workshop participants (I am in spectator mode, myself), but it is guaranteed to be fun. It's also an insight into what some of the young people of today are into...their fun and their hip hop music.

This project was made possible by the Sunrise Health Region Health Promotion Grant.

Go here for a video look at Flipped Out Crew in action.

Call Jaime Rieger in Gerald for more information or to pre-register
at 745-2503
or email her.