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.

http://www.redetv.com.br/Video.aspx?52%2C15%2C268361%2Cjornalismo%2Credetv-news%2Cperiferia-antes-violento-bairro-do-bronx-em-nova-york-respira-cultura

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!!

For outdoor Dance concert info please check the link- http://www.summerstage.org/calendar/legendary-house-of-ninja-kr3ts-milteri-tucker-and-special-guests/

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!