Full Circle News: August 2006

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Can you feel it? The HEAT.. and the rain.. and the 'vapors'… wow.
Checkin in with you guys again.. mid '06..Willie Ninja GET WELL!!!
The Ten Year Anniversary was fun and hectic all in one..


WE gave out a third Full Circle award… this time we called it the

THE ON FIRE AWARD…

Violet Galagarza, Baba, Mildred Ruiz and Steven Sapp,

and Angel Rodrigues were the recipients

We were very proud of Project 2050 ..they broke the ice and let the world know the youth is ready to speak truth to power… Big Shout to Mildred Gamal and Ninja who brought the Universe's BX flava to our stage and also to KR3T's and their fire..

Angel and Hector had us all singing "Hip-hop and gua guanco!" with the dance accompaniment of I-Shea from Massachusetts and Shadiya from Jersey..
oh and an even bigger shout to Palms Down who blessed us with their percussion..
who did we miss.. oh el SENOR AMADIS who hit us with some Salsa.. wassup Nynji..

Our host with the most, the poet / singer Sali Kadi who hails from New Orleans (I kno I always misspell it .. hit me over the head with it.. so I never forget it…)
and yeah let's not forget New Orleans.. they still goin thru it….
Our techies Robert Henderson and Amy Hayyer and Kevin Rivera who is on hiatus right about now.. too hot.. summer is just too hot …
as far as the ten year dvd montage.. big THANK YOU to Brooknam /Brisk of Footnote films who did an excellent job and brought tears to all our eyes…
Right after this, Kwikstep and Rokafella performed at the closing ceremonies of the High School of Graphic Communication where they taught for four months. Arts Connection is the best.. Lonnie and Tracy you rock!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO KWIKSTEP. JUNE 24
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO KWIK AND ROK FOR THEIR 6TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY ----tho they been together for 12 yrs…

Tiffany is now christened B GIRL INFINI T


The United Way show at the Apollo, who's theme was Compassion, was great especially because at the urging of Angela Kariotis, Kwik and Rok got to work with a violinist who accompanied Kwik's words and Roks moves..AND Tiffany got to perform with her students from Grady High School in Brooklyn. She also performed with Rok at the closing of the program they taught at the Bronx High School of Visual Art hosted by PEPATIAN

Kwik and Rok were then called to teach some workshops on Hip-hop theater at Alvin Ailey and it went well made some new friends.. re connected with some old ones..

Thank you Yvette Campbell.

Then it was on to Minnesota for the B girl BE summit hosted at Intermedia Arts.. People we gotta give it up to these ladies who made sure this event was intense at every turn… that is not an easy thing to do. I mean they had a TV and video screening, they had a cool gallery exhibition of the abstract, in your face, spray can, paint brush, photo shop, and sculpture round the world collection of art made by female artists. They even had a hair salon set up where you could get your hair braided and purchase some merchandise personalized by artists. International B girls Aruna from Rotterdam, Morgana from Brasil, and Genesis from London- big shout to Kevin.. were in the house and dancing up a storm.. Aiko, Asia One, Lady Champ, Vendetta and Severe also rocked non stop thru out the weekend and from Puerto Rico Lady D and Miosotis brought us back to Africa with their Bomba percussionists…big shout to the local b girls.

The company performed at the Smithsonian in Washington D.C. They faced minor technical challenges and still performed an excellent program. In July Kwikstep and Rokafella traveled back to Massachusetts to work on yet another year of New World Theater's Project 2050 Deconstructing Dualities. It was intense and fulfilling as always. Congrats to the youth who graduated and will move onto colleges in the area.. we wish them all the best and hope they stay in touch! Big Shout to Kelly Tsai who worked for the first time with the project.

Rokafella judged the 'Kings of New York' event hosted by Rue and was happy to know that NY is rising up--- another cycle of fire.. big shout to Breaks Kru and X Fenz and Dynamic and Supreme Beings and BKC.. Thanks to Rue who awarded her with a Queen of New York certificate…

Kwik and Rok then traveled to Philadelphia to offer classes at Rennie Harris's Illadelph Legends workshop series. New faces and some old ones came to class and we were able to spend some time with our peers who we rarely have the time to kick it with.. big shout to Stretch, Tweety, Chezronne, Don Campbell, Michelle, Raphael and Jamie. Congrats to Zen One, Traci Bartlow, Nicole Smith and Montazh on their performances!

Tomomi returned from her visit to Japan just in time to perform with Rok and B girl Infini T for Bloomberg's Culture Bites as part of the promotion of the We B girlz performance at Lincoln Center's Out of Doors on August 10, 2006. It was fun and the audience had really good questions… and lunch too! Can't beat that..

Rokafella is headed to another b girl panel discussion in San Jose- California curated by Aiko. Jaquita Ta'le is going to shoot the activities.. welcome aboard!
The flyer is on our site as well as the flyer for the details to the Lincoln Center Out of Doors event . That same weekend Full Circle will perform at the Jackie Robinson bandshell in Harlem..we hope you attend and enjoy the program we have planned which includes the addition of MC Queen Godis and the poet Frantz as well as two FC ON FIRE awards will be given to our friends who have helped us and who could not attend the anniversary so we waited to honor in a big way in front of our community.

We have to give a big shout to Ken Fury who won the RSC footwork on Concrete contest.. and to Rocism who just returned from Russia!!
Stay tuned.. we have to hit the bboy summit and Chicago. And then off to London and Germany and Brasil..wow..
not to mention.. some more classes in Brooklyn and the Bronx and more performances…we welcome some potential new members who will remain nameless until they step up

A decade of braving the storm!! And then some…

Oh and if you can ..Please go see the movie "An Inconvenient Truth"….

A-'che!