| The
Juke Joint: where Hip Hop meets the Blues
August
26 & 27, 2005
  
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1) Neopolitan members Robert D. Lupo & Dahrio "Wonder"
Hutton
2) New Style Motherlode co-founder, Corey Action
3) Onstage with New Style Motherlode Dance
4) New Style Motherlode co-founder, Teela Shine-Ross
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Join us at the Oakland Metro for a special
run of interactive dance performances by Oakland's own New
Style Motherlode Dance Company (NSM), featuring dance styles
ranging from hip hop and jazz to modern and praise dance. The
exuberant performances will feature dancers from NSM
as well as Diamond Dance (NSM's youth dance ensemble)
and Neopolitan Dance.
What: THE
JUKE JOINT, where Hip Hop meets the Blues.
Who: New Style Motherlode Dance Company
When: Friday and Saturday August. 26th and 27th
2005
Time: 8:00 PM - curtain / 7:30 PM - doors
Where: Oakland Metro, 201 Broadway (at 2nd St.
near Jack London Square)
(510) 763-1146 http://www.oaklandmetro.org
Venue entry & seating are wheelchair accessible - restrooms
are not.
Tickets: Advance - $22.00/general & $18.00/students
& seniors
Day of Show - $25.00/general & $20.00/students & seniors
Advance
Ticket Info: 510/597-1056
Additional: All seats are general.
Media contact & passes: Corey Action 510/597-1056
The Juke Joint
Where Hip Hop meets the Blues
To mark its 8th year of presenting New Style Motherlode Dance
concerts, NSM will recognize their roots in dance with a tribute
to the music that is the undertone of African American History
- the Blues. Corey Action and Teela Shine have joined with fellow
NSM choreographers, Neopolitan, and LaChanda Davis, to create
a fun, pleasurable, high energy, and interactive dance show that
will have you tapping your feet and up out
your seat.
Set in an old style Juke Joint, with a touch of Hip Hop Soul,
NSM will transform the Oakland Metro into an interactive dance
stage where the audience is part of the show. A Full Bar, Cocktail
tables sofas, chairs and a Juke Box are set up on and around the
stage area so that the audience can feel the vibe of the dancers
and the dancers feel the vibe from the audience. Dancing to upbeat
tracks from Hip Hop and R&B artists Nas, Tweet, Mos Def and
John Legend, with down home blues tracks by John Lee Hooker, LaVern
Baker, Ray Charles and many more.
Bio's
NSM (Corey Action and Teela Shine-Ross) founded
the New Style Motherlode Dance Company in 1996. The directors
envisioned a company that fused hip-hop, jazz, ballet, modern,
and theatrical themes to present a realm of dance never seen before.
With this vision, they formed a unique and dynamic dance company,
consisting of dancers from all walks of life.
Accomplished dancers, musicians and choreographers, Action and
Shine-Ross aspire to develop a multidimensional training and performance
curriculum that explores all facets of dance and dance production.
The New Style Motherlode Dance Studio is located at 5451 College
Ave in Oakland CA. The studio is a home base for the dance companies,
NSM, Diamond, Sparkle and Neopolitan and offers classes in dance
forms that include modern, jazz, belly dance, Praise and of course,
Hip Hop.
Neopolitan
(Robert D. Lupo & Dahrio "Wonder" Hutton) The raw
street flavor of Dahrio Wonder Hutton and the impeccable technique
of Robert D. Lupo creates the eclectic style of dance that Neopolitan
brings to the dance world. Having met in 1999, while dancing
under the direction of Corey Action and Teela Shine in the New
Style Motherlode dance company, Dahrio and Robert soon found out
that though having different backgrounds, their dancing really
complemented each others' and their onstage bond was simply dynamic.
Neopolitan thrives on creating new and exciting ideas in a very
completive dance world. Hard work, creative concepts, professional
attitudes, and versatile styles are only a few of the many qualities
Neopolitan holds. This "new flava" of hip hop is definitely
a treat for all
LaChanda C. Davis has been
dancing for over twenty years. She is a
trained dancer in Jazz, Modern, West African, and Afro-Cuban dance.
She
has been dancing with NSM since 1998 and is currently serves as
the
Assistant Director of NSM and teaches Afro-Cuban Jazz at NSM Studio.
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