I planned to review the ‘hip hop dance’ competition, For The Love Of The Stage which was held at Rosehill Racecourse, Sydney, which was held as part of a car show. There’s not much I can say since I was told by someone who was there, not to bother. That would’ve been the end of it, except I was curious and asked those who went, about what happened. Turns out there was a lot of miscommunication amongst the organisers themselves and third parties who they thought were helping them out, so with no one knowing what was going on, Luke from SKB started telling everyone how it should be run, and chose himself and two others to judge the battles then ran a round-robin for the three crews that entered the battle competition. He wasn’t the only one who happened to be there and put their hand up to contribute to the comp. From that, the content of the battles were hype enough for them to recount with wild eyes, the amazing feat of low-key young crew Buoyan over the more established Justice Crew.

In the past, if an event like this came up, I would completely diss the organisers and rant about how wack everyone is and how they are detrimental to the local Hip Hop dance scene. Well I’ve done that many times, and got some really good things out of it like some new friends who are prominent dancers in Australia and in the world, and got better at identifying empty threats. But now, I’m not in the mood to hate, lots of things went wrong, people messed up – what I will take from what happened are two things:

1. Buoyan is a new and crazy crew that has established members of the SKB crew raving about how they are the top of their generation and are at the top of freestyle dancers in Australia
2. It is so great to see people who are truly in the Hip Hop and dance scenes in Sydney just unite and take over situations because they won’t give up so easily and will run things if needed. So props to Luke, David Tang and Leizel for stepping up.

There’s no videos up that I know of, but if anyone has any, hit me up.

Trina

Related posts:

1. Code Red, Sydney – Hip Hop Dance Competition
2. Encryption Sydney 2010, Hip Hop Dance Competition