Danzation~ (Edited)

Went to the NRA (New Revolution Age) Danzation at NP yesterday...

So. Totally. Cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh my god... You should have watched them dance!!!!!!!!!!!! *Gush*

All the hiphop, jazz, locking, raggae, latin............ and so on!! It's a perfect combination of all sorts of modern dance with ballroom dances~~!!!! I'm so inspired!!! i Wanna dance, dAnce, DAnCE~~~!!!!


HAhaha... okok, i'll start from the beginning...


JX invited me to go for their school's dance concert some time ago. She told me her friend is performing at the concert, so she, HY and a few of her other friends are going to give their support. But another of her friend couldn't make it to the concert at the last minute, so there's an extra ticket and she couldn't find anybody else. SO i WENT~ for free! Hahaha....

So at first i thought, oh school dance concert... should be nothing much bah... Reach there at 8pm, should be able to reach home by 10 le. While thinking of PJ Opening ceremony (which is quite not exciting...), and those mini-concerts in NUS (which lasted a little more than an hour only...).


But in the end, it turned out to be the exact opposite of what i thought.


At the opening, they showed a little video of some girl who fell out with her parents over her dance practices, because according to her parents, she wasted a hell lot of a time practising her dance that they don't get to see her at all. So they forbid her to go for her practice totally. She ran out of the house in the rain and came to NP....

Then the opening dance starts... According to brochure, "An opening that will leave you breathless! Featuring various genres of dance, lyrical hiphop, powerjazz, popping, locking, house, new school hip hop and raggae. It's an opening too good to miss!!"

I totally agree...

The opening performance have totally blown me away.. The dances are neat and the dance choreography is so cool and professional!!!!!! The performance don't only feature 1 or a few talented dancers, the whole dance troupe is equally talented!! All dancers are really really professional looking!!! And we are talking about a troupe of 100+ dancers!!!!!!!!!!!!

And i must say.. they are really open-minded dancers... which may be attributed to their professionalism bah. When it comes to hugging, they really did hug... When it comes to kissing, they almost did kiss... And some of their positions and movements... errr... really suggestive...

Professionalism, professionalism~~!!!

But i can't help wondering what their parents would think, sitting in audience and watching... Heh.

Oh and all the female dancers are so hot sia!! With their wild hairstyles, makeup, outfits and of course their nice bods... the guys (both dancers and audience) really 赚到了 man...

Later in the performance, there is a showcase of different genres of street dance. Like Street Jazz, (which is cool sia~ i wud definitely learn this if possible!!), hip hop and of course break dance. The dancers can really break well.. imagine standing on your head for 10 secs!!

Then there's a cute performance of short, spunky mcdonald's girls (dressed in bright red and yellow outfits) fighting with tall lanky guys.. Daphne Khoo, one of the Singapore Idol's top finalist, acts as one of the mcdonald's girls. Heard from JX that she's in the NRA organisation too.

Then later she sang 2-3 numbers... but couldn't really remembered what she sang.. Because i'm totally wowed by the dancing in the background and how they actually can complement with Daphne's singing really well. The whole dance choreography is great.. I think Daphne's voice sounded like Britney Spears', like a little faky kind of voice, but still sound good nevertheless...

Crazy in love by Daphne...


There are 2 more singers in NRA too. The guy sang 爱如潮水 and some Wilbur Pan's song. The girl sang 睁一只眼闭一只眼 and 爱的主打歌... They are really good~!! Heard they were also trained in some established Singapore singing schools... But anyway, the whole performance is really like what you see in MTVs!!! The whole choreograph, costumes and everything!! So coooolllll!!!!!!


睁一只眼闭一只眼 by the female singer...


Oh yar, there's also a very humorous retro (or obiang?) performance where the guy was nerdy-obiang-and-toot-looking, wearing a high-waist pants with 2 suspenders on each side of his body. He sang a Hokkien song which starts with "Kia lid eh hong jin tao...". Then his background dancers are all female dancers, half of them wearing those qibaos that are similar to those waitresses you see in Chinese restaurants and the other half wearing those fur boas which you see those A-go-go singers wearing in the 70's or 80's. (See here if you don't know what a feather boa is.) It's damn cute and hilarious man~ Haha...

There are many performance with other different themes as well... For eg, army recruits doing funky dances, chambermaids having fun after their mundance chores, men and women in their posh evening gowns moving to the seductive latino groove, and ended with a grand finale of some percussion music which sounded pretty Brazilian to me.


Overall....

Songs:

Their songs absolutely made me sway to the groove and move to the beat... The genres were like R&B, hip-hop, Pop, Jazz and so on... There were many many songs but i can't only recognise and remember some like

Britney's Toxic, I'm a Slave For You, Stronger and some of her other hits;
Beyonce's Crazy in Love and some of her other songs;
Nelly Furtado's Promiscuous;
Mario's Let Me Love You;
Mariah Carey's We Belong Together;
Mary J. Blige's Be Without You;
Black-Eyed Peas' Fergie;
Kelly Clarkson's Because of You;
U.G.L.Y in Bring it On movie;
Classic song... Fever;
Some korean song, Any Motion (i've always tot this is just a sample mtv song by samsung, cos it's found in my prev samsung phone. Never know that such song really exists... lol.)


Choreographers:

I think they played an extremely important part to the success of this concert... Without them, there would probably be no performance. 5 in total: Ryan Tan, Xue Gao, Lionel Araya, Don Tsai and Ann Tan. I think the most impressive one has got to be Xue Gao. He's a Taiwanese Celebrity choregrapher who has worked with famous singers like Jay Chou, Jolin Tsai, JJ Lin and so on... No wonder the dances looked exactly like from the MTV videos~~!


Dancers:

Full of energy and vibrance... There's one Botak guy singled out by JX. He danced real charmingly and... i don't know how to put it, let's just say he has the X-factor that the other male dancers lacked.

Some modern dance...Can see that guy near the end of the video... At the center of the stage. So charming~ But the video got cut off a short while after he appeared... =(


After-concert thoughts...

Great thanks to JX and HY　for inviting me~!!! ^_^ I really don't regret the whole 3.5 hours there at all.. I have nothing but praises for the whole production! I'm totally wowed by their talents, their energy and their efforts. Of course, all these would never have been possible without hard work. They have been practising from 5-11 everyday in school for 6-7 months!!! I finally understand what the opening video is all about... to explain to the parents in the audience, and to show them the fruit of their child's hard work in past 6-7 months. Though i'm not a parent, but i too, felt touched by their intentions.

On another note, now my current dance class at the CC seemed totally like the Singapore Workout man... Argh. HAha... I wanna learn how to dance like them!!! I want, i want!!!! So that i can really enjoy the music to another level, so that i can pursue a real hobby, so that i can jian fei, so that i can show off~!!! Ahahha...

So inspired right now~!!! i Wanna dance, dAnce, DAnCE~~~!!!! =D