Thursday, May 31, 2012

May Daze

May opened up with an in-store appearance at Brooklyn Industries on Atlantic ave.
Thanks to a hook up from our newest female FC member Toko. It was the launch of the Summer line entitled "Jungle Fever". Thank you to Lori DelMundo who arranged our performance with DJ.


Along with BI manager and Lori are 4 FC members pictured above
are Rok, Toko, Sole Junky and Tyfoon.


Six weeks at Bronxworks culminated in a poetry, visual art, music and dance informal performance on May 23 with 12 young girls and four instructors as
part of Pepatian's Hip-hop Academy. An entreprenuerial workshop was also
offered to the teens of the center during the series of arts programming.
Big thank you to Shanika Blount and Jane Gabriels who organized the project. Also pictured below are Fred Ones, La Bruja, Crystal Clarity and Rokafella.

This year Full Circle participated in the Annual AIDSWALK and surpassed
its goal of $500. thanks to crew member support.
One of our new board members also joined us and helped to raise
sponsor funds. Big shout to one of our Door member students-
Sonja Blade who joined the team and completed the walk with us.


Thanks to our supportive programming staff at
Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance,
Full Circle presented it newest dance theater piece
"Soul InTension" during the
Boogie Down Dance Festival bringing together crew and
dance company members on stage.
It was the return performance for Tiffany Craddock
and for Keny Zulu. We hope to perform this piece again in the
near future. In the photo below are some crew
members stretching out just before tech rehearsal.
Thank you to the Jerome Foundation and to
Charles Rice-Gonzalez, Arthur Aviles, Carlo Quispe
and Damon who helped make this night a success.


Thanks to Aviva Davidson, a reporter from the
Brazilian TV network REDE TV interviewed
Kwikstep and Rokafella for a short story on the Bronx and
its present Arts movement. Check out the link to the news
story. Below the link is a photo taken during the interview that
happened minutes before showtime at Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance.






The Behind the Groove party in May was live and full of vibrant energy
tho we missed DJ DP One but Jaze Art Remote
filled the space with his House set
and Ron Renaissance on the Trombone!
Kwikstep hit us hard with a Beastie Boys tribute unlike any other!!!
It has not been easy to extend our party to other nights in the month
at other venues as we had envisioned and we are sorry for having to
cancel the Yotel edition of the BTG party. BUT we could not
bring our one-of-a-kind DANCE party to a location that
wouldn't honor our home grown dance vibe. Stay tuned for some new
developments for BTG at the new Gonazalez and Gonzalez restaurant/club
on Mercer presently scheduled to be held on the last Saturdays of
month beginning with June 30th.
Yes.. Saturday!


Kwikstep has been teaching on Tuesdays
at the Inwood Branch of the Public Libary and will wrap up the first week of June.

Full Circle will perform at two NY Public Libraries
with a free dance class immediately following their performance.
On June 11th FC will be at the Grand Concourse Branch
on East 173rd st at 4pm(718 583 6611- Sabrina)
On June 13th FC will be at the Mott Haven Branch 321 E 140th street
at 3:30pm (718 665 4878 Advondale).

On June 21 Rokafella will perform her music
as part of Make Music New York festival at the
West Farms Sq NY Public LibraryBranch at 3:30pm and
then head down to the Afro Asian Block Party on Rivington at 6pm.



June 30th is the dance concert Rokafella has helped to curate/organize which will have amazing performance by dance icons such as Milteri Tucker, Ismael Otero, The Bedstuy Veterans, Kim Holmes KR3t'S, The Legendary House of Ninja and
Full Circle Souljahs who will be premiering routines
that mark the return of
"Fresh Frank" --Master/Bx Legend/Popper/
Newstyle Choreographer from back in the day!!
The concert will be hosted by Rokafella and with DJ
set from Kwikstep--a.k.a KS 360.
Tthe AFTER PARTY will be held at
the NEW Gonzalez and Gonzalez
--yes of the 20+ NYC Salsa dance fame on Broadway --
so mark your calendars for a day/night of dance!!

Thank you for all your support in the form of
show attendance, AIDSWALK sponsorship and inspirational words.
We are very close to launching our new easy-to-navigate website.
We will have a full line up of Summer library performances and dance classes taking place throughout NYC posted up on the next newsletter/blog.

"All the Ladies Say" will be screened
in July as part of Dance Films Association -details to follow soon.

If you haven't already done so,
please join our Facebook group pages for
Full Circle Prod Inc, All The Ladies Say and
Behind The Groove for updates.
and follow us on Twitter- Fullcirclesoul.

If you would like to support our company with your administrative, web/media services or a donation please reach out to us at fullcirclesoul@hotmail.com.

Pictured below is our FC crew and family
movie night out to see "The Avengers".
PEACE, and breakbeats!



posted by Full Circle Souljahs @ 8:59 PM  

Thursday, May 03, 2012

Full Circle 4.12



April came and went so fast with so much going on for Full Circle on all levels--the dance company, the battle squad and the Directors. The New York Public Library has sponsored dance classes at their many branches with Rokafella and Kwikstep. Tuesdays were the day and the Webster and the Huntspoint Branches were the place. Thank you to Selo and to Karina who brought their youth group members to attend. We will have classes at the Inwood Branch at 3:30pm every Tuesday in May.



We were happy to welcome Kmel back to NYC to begin a new film project. The students at the Door were excited that he came to visit the Door as he was a Full Circle Souljah dance company member late 90's and in the first years of the millenium.
The Kadets (Tyfoon, Sole Junky and Kilo) also known as the Full Circle Souljah battle cats went to the SUNY Buffalo Breakin battle and took first place. Thank you to the rest of the Full Circle heads who also traveled 8 hours to support Henry Chop who left to college last Fall and has continued training.
This year will mark the second year Full Circle will participate in the "Dancing in the Streets/Casita Maria" block party. Thank you to Aviva Davidson who always offers our young dancers' a chance to perform. Below is the Vimeo link to our show last year.
http://vimeo.com/39368084

On April 9th Kwik and Rok performed in "How to Break" a play about Teens diagnosed with terminal diseases still finding courage to be street dancers. The work in progress was presented at the D lounge written by Aaron Jeffaris and Cristopher Edwards at the New York Theater Barn. Pictured are the Playwright Aaron Jeffaris, Adam Matta, Kwik and Rok and the actress. Kwik and Rok have been consultants in this project which was spawned at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 2010. Big shout to Claudia Alick. We hope to present it in the Fall at Here and word has it there may be support from the Hip-hop Theater Festival to develop it further. Stay tuned for info.

One of our dancers Kamsy "Flash" Duarte wrote and performed his debut one-man show
"Now and Then" which was directed by Kwikstep with dramaturgical support from Rokafella at
La Tea's "The One Festival". Thank you to Veronica Caicedo for still offering this
festival to all who applied. Big Shout to Ernie Silva who brought his play
"Heavy Like the Weight of a Flame" and a new excerpt to the festival.
Below is a foto of Flash during his performance. We hope to continue developing his one-man show til it becomes a full evening length. Stay tuned for future show dates.

Behind the Groove was a fun place to celebrate Spex's birthday. Violet and Mighty Mike
brought Speedy D to the party. It was a Full Circle reunion of members from
1998+ (picured below)
May's BTG party will be on May 8th.

Thursday May 17th All The Ladies Say will be screened at Miami's Pro-Am breaking event.
May 12th Full Circle Souljahs dance company and FC Kadets will join forces to premier a new dance piece entitled "Soul Intension" at Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance during the "Boogie Down Dance Festival". We hope you can join us and check out some of the other dance performances happening duriing the festival. We thank the entire cast and the Jerome foundation for helping us develop a piece that shares the deeper side of street dance, a side
most never see.





On May 20th Full Circle will participate in this years AIDSWALK NYC and we hope you can make a donation or join our team-- Full Circle Prod Inc team 9317. http://t.co/BeSQ64th Hip-hop has lost many family members to this disease and we hope to make an effort towards finding a cure!

Monday June 11th Full Circle will be at the NY Public Library Grand Concourse Branch offering a dance class and a dance performance at 4pm 155 EAST 173rd street.
Wednesday June 13th Full Circle will also offer a dance class and show at the NYPL Mott Haven Branch 321 East 140 at 3:30pm

Wednesday June 25th Kwikstep will open for CHIC's outdoor concert at Lincoln Center with a Behind The Groove unique set of dance music.

Saturday June 30th St Mary's Park will host the "Kaleidoscope of Dance" concert which boasts perfrmances by the likes of Ismael Otero a Bessie Award 2011 Nominee, Violeta Galagarza's (a 2011 Bessie Award recipient) KR3t dance team plus a highly anticipated performance from the Vogue Icon Willi Ninja's House--The Legendary House of Ninja. The dance event will begin at 7pm with a free Breakin' Dance class offered by one of Full Circle Souljah's.
http://www.summerstage.org/calendar/legendary-house-of-ninja-kr3ts-milteri-tucker-and-special-guests/

Please look out for The Ladies of Hip-hop festival happening in
July!  http://www.ladiesofhiphopfestival.com/
If you would like to offer your administrative, fund raising or media services please do not hestitate to reach out to us at fullcirclesoul@hotmail.com.
Our website is still under construction, we thank you for your support and patience.

posted by Full Circle Souljahs @ 8:56 AM