As we look back!

Full Circle had a year complete with new dancers(foto)-- some of who experienced their first perormances with us on stage and some who were featured in the film -representing the mission of the company to spread the message of hip-hop as a culture to the world for the first time. This year we blended our dance company with our musicians twice in the year! Our first event in January -the Hitters panel discussion with slide show and party-- was historical and emotional since so many of our street dance pioneers have passed away. Yet the foundation is there, the Breeze Team, The Float Committee, and the TRansformers are still out here and their format still feeds this generation of HITTERS and audiences. RPM played alongside of DJ Dp ONe. The FC crew traveled to Poughkeepsie to do some youth performances and then to Washington D.C.

The Bronx Council on the ARTs blessed our film project with a grant award to continue work on the b girl documentary "All the Ladies Say" and to launch it in June. The featured b girl dancers were present for the screening party and shoot. The film is set to be released and screened across cities in U.S. in 2010. Thank you to the Ford Foundation for helping with travel subsidies this year. Roberta Uno is a visionary theater presenter and director who has looked out for this project from the start. Thank you also to Marcy Garriot who is a film director that has also donated her support to the film process.

Summer began with a performance at the Main Branch of the New York Public Library on 42nd street. We had three international dancers with us- Aruna and Stayfun from Rotterdam and Meli from Austria. In August with the programming of "Dancing in The Streets" managing Director Aviva Davidson (in the foto), Full Circle performed at Lincoln Center's Out of Doors concert with live musicians and dancers from Connecticut and Boston. check the link-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lBuAjt5hk0

September brought us back to the BronxMuseum to inaugurate the URBAN ARCHIVE exhibit which includes Kwikstep and Rokafella's items alongside Joe Conzo and Martha Cooper collection of Hip-hop history. Full Circle fotos and show ticket stubs are among the items in the vitrine. www.bronxmuseum.org The exhibit includes video and installations from Hip-hop artists from the 70's to present and will run til March! Full Circle brought back a dance piece from 2007 .. this time with out the grand piano or beatboxer but with new popper Jedi Nice along with Future and Onion at Dance New Amsterdam for thier evening "Residance".

October- Kwikstep and Ironman went to celebrate and represent at Battle of the Year's 20th anniversary in Germany and Rokafella performed with her Door dance class in Manhattan for UDH. Intermedia ARts' B Girl Be hosted Rokafella and Aiko (one of the featured dancers of the documentary) in Minneapolis with a successful screening discussion and workshop. Kwikstep and Ironman assisted with Red Bull's BC One competition at the HAmmerstein Ballroom and Rokafella participated in the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

November- Two fundraisers for the film completion funds were held at Food for Thought Books and at Bronx Academy of ARts and Dance. Thank you to all who donated their time and funds. We have already returned to the editing of the final product and will soon enter the remaining phases of sound mixing and packaging. March is our set deadline for a premiere in Minneapolis!

December-Full Circle held its Christmas party at Le Poisson Rouge(pronounced pwahsohn rooj) with DJs Dp One and KWikstep and will continue to produce a party at this club every first thursday of the month so look out for January's 7th e flyer.

WE thank you for your continual support and promise you we will get back to concert perfomances as soon as our film project is complete. Thank you to Melissa Ulto, Corinne MAnabat, to TAnya K, GAzino Scott, Diana Coryat, Michael King, MAiA Hunter, Aaron JEffaris. To the Hip-hop Association, MArtha Diaz and Black Robb. Thanks to DAnce NEW AMsterdam for housing our office.

If you would like to volunteer or donate to the company, do not hesitate to reach out to us as our talented staff's commitment fluctuates with the seasons and we rely on performance fees, grant applications and private donors to keep our company's mission alive. Please stay tuned, leave your email address and check out the b girl film website www.alltheladiessay.com

Blessings to you!
Happy Holidays!


-FCP family