Check out tonight’s show as the bring you the Judging panel for the B-Series: B-IL event this weekend! DJ Flymaxx on the decks live! THE B-SERIES presents: B-IL (Spring 2017) a two day dance festival, celebrating the local Street Dance community in Chicago.
“Be Inspired by Local Legacies”
APRIL 14 & 15
@ The Dance Center of Columbia Collage Chicago
1306 S Michigan Ave, 60605 IL CHICAGO
Events are FREE & OPEN to the public
***Movement Workshops on Saturday morning are charged***
Schedule:
Friday, April 14 (Room 300)
4PM: Open Cyphers/Session
Come jam out with us and get down at the open session.
6PM: B-IL Verbal Cypher: Featuring cross-generational conversations about the Street Dance Scene of Chicago
7PM: Community Organizing w/Asad Syeda Jafri
What does the Street Dance Scene want from the City of Chicago and how do we organize to get it? Come learn tested organizing strategies and techniques to push the community to the next level!
Saturday, April 15
Room 300
12PM: House Workshop with Boogie (Ancelstors & Astrals)
1PM: Footwork Workshop with Quanzy (Don’s of Chicago Footwork)
Workshops $10 each or $15 for both
*Columbia Students $7 each or $10 for both*
Dance Center Theater
2PM-8PM: B-IL Jam
Celebrating Local Legacies!!!
Featuring 1×1 Open Styles Battle
Judges ==>
Wicked (Phaze II Crosstown Crew)
Quanzy (Don’s of Chicago Footwork)
Boogie (Ancestors & Astrals)
Space Capitol (Robot M.A.F.I.A.)
Jose “Tin” Amaro (Thee Chulitos)
$200 for 1st place
$100 for 2nd place
Master of Ceremonies ==>
BraveMonk (Phaze II Crosstown Crew/Alkemy/BraveSoul)
DJs ==>
DJ Phil (Teklife)
VADER (NINJACHURCH/Boogie Knightz)
This semester in collaboration with partnering organizations:
GIRL ILLA Tactics
BraveMovement Dance
The Center for Community Arts Partnerships
Judges Bio:
Boogie:
This woman is one of the pioneers and a big inspiration in the hip hop dance and culture scene in Chicago. Blessed to have her come and share her movement with us as well as join us for the jam as one of the judges. Workshop on April 15th 12PM at The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago.
Boogie McClarin is a Chicago based teaching artist, performer, and choreographer committed to explorations of freedom, power, transformation and liberation. Using a vocabulary steeped in African diasporic traditions, sustained improvisation, and folk forms, she creates ground breaking works exploding the myths and matrices of oppression with sound and movement.
From 1999 – 2003 , she and Anthony Wolfe produced of The L.I.F.E. Show, the first urban dance showcase in Chicago. With shows every 60 days, The L.I.F.E. Show was an incubator for choreographers and companies, providing access to theaters, production and marketing for groups considered outside of traditional dance programming.
Ms. McClarin’s approach to critical theory, movement and culture has been highlighted in academia and speaking engagements. She has spoken at Columbia College Chicago’s B -Divine Festival, Chicago Ideas Week, Chicago Public Libraries, and as a featured artist at Brown University’s Rites and Reasons Theater Chicago House Dance Weekend.
Boogie McClarin is founder of The Chicago House Institute and continues to grow and share her love of movement as faculty of the Old Town School of Folk Music.
Wicked:
Bboy Wicked came up back in 1982, with his 3 older brothers. They were fortunate to learn the art of Breakin from the Rodriguez brothers who moved to Chicago from the Bronx N.Y. who are also credited with creating the crew name Phaze II Crosstown Crew. From there Wicked along with the Phaze II Crosstown Crew went on to become a powerful force in the 90’s with a decade of strong wins! Winning Pro Am 98 and being invited to compete for Germany’s “Battle of the Year” in 1998, where they placed 3rd, earning them them the honor of putting Chicago breaking on the map on an international level. Wicked took a break from the scene for health reasons. Wicked has returned with full force to build the scene, mentor, and take Chicago to new levels in the Breaking community.
Quanzy:
A.k.a Q.V.I.P grew up on the west side of Chicago. He used to go to to Park District with his mother to see Main Attraction and Fade Squad dance and got bit by the footwork bug. This started his footwork career in 1993.
The first group he was in T.W.J (Together We Jack) was located in the Garfield Park area at the Golden Dome. They had opportunities to perform in various places such as the Bud Billiken Parade and the Apollo (the show Showtime at The Apollo) which got cancelled due some money issues. Shortly after that the group broke up and he found himself trying out for Main Attraction and making the squad and eventually becoming the captain of the best squads on the west side.
He was thought by some of the best footworkers in the world such as Pork Chop, Bo, Stickx, Davidson, Boone, Tracy, Popcorn, Mario, Rob, Defly, Puppet Master Rob, Bobby, D.B and Rome.
He started a group called 187 (Murder of the Dance) and as a group they went around Chicago looking for dancers to help train them and make them stars. They also had opportunities to perform for various people at their concerts such as Soulja Boy, Diggy Simmons, Chris Brown, Bow Wow, Mims, Rick Ross, One Chance and New Boys, as well as performing in Twista’s “Pimp like me” and “Watch my feet” videos. They also performed at the WGCI back to school jam, America’s Got Talent-Chicago, America’s Best Dance Crew-ATL, and New York Blaze the Stage besides doing their own 187 concerts. Currently he has a new group called Don’s of Chicago Footwork, who are actively performing and spreading the footwork love around the world!
Tin:
Jose ‘Tin’ Amaro started dancing at the age of 13 teaching a high school pompom. At the age of 14 he started his own dance group, a kids version of the group he became part of at 16 became known as The Culitos. From late 80s through the late 90s he choreographed for 15 consecutive years as number the one dance group in Chicago. They competed with mostly choreographed routines with a sprinkle of solos now and then, he called the style urban contemporary. They competed in several venues such as Jenals, Rainbow, Centrum Hall and many more. All the competitors had to help out post flyers and try to reach people as there was no cellphones or internet at the time. The Culitos competed with various groups and in fifteen years came in second place one. He has always strived for excellence and through this group he became known as Tin from The Culitos.
Space Capital:
Chicago veteran that started in the 70s. Everything from roboting, breaking , locking, Jacking, etc. he has over 30 years of experience. He was born in Mississippi but raised in Chicago’s West side. Creator of Bboy.com, the first website for breakers worldwide. Space capital worked with a few promoters to bring Chicago crews (Phaze II and Junkwartz) into international highlight from events such as Battle of the Year and the London Breakdance Championship. From dancing, teaching, performing, producing, and more, Space Capitol has always worked hard to create platforms for all types of street dancers to have an outlet.