Street Dancing, Popping and Locking

On Thursday 11th September I had an operation to address a frozen left shoulder. I had had immobility in that shoulder for 4 months since a fall. It seems to be successful although it is early days. I was fortunate enough to have a Norwich Union Insurance policy arranged by my work place, so was able to have the procedure performed privately at a Spire ( previously known as Bupa ) hospital. This hopefully has improved my chances of success and recovery. At the very least during my short stay it was luxurious to have a private room to myself with my own television and radio. It did not feel like staying in hospital.

Back to the core focus of this blog, in an earlier edition of this blog I mentioned I had learnt some of the foot work for hip hop urban style dancing. If/when my shoulder fully recovers I will be able to start learning the arm movements. If that is possible, hopefully I will be able participate in the hip hop competition my friend Paul and I have planned for the winter. The operation has meant I am signed off work so I can at least work on the websites, posters etc. to promote the dance competition.

On another note in order to get this blog more traffic I have joined technorati, here a link to it. Technorati Profile

On the 29th August, Mark my mobile disco business parter and dance instructor friend Paul and I threw a party for my birthday which had been on 14th August. The venue was Bognor Regis Railway club.

This gig was a reasonable success, 30 or 40 people turned up. Paul and I did some dancing towards the end of the party. My frozen shoulder did not affect my feet so I did some smurfing. Paul commented on the fact that the technique looked good but went off time occasionly.

Unfortunatley I did get any footage of our dancing as my digital camera' s rechargable batteries had become flat after testing the video facility earlier that night. We had some claps for our dancing and my West Sussex and Hampshire based mobile disco business may have gained some trade because despite the fact my business partner Mark and i had opted to use the clubs' s own apmplifier and speakers which sounded distorted we played a range of music which everyone seemed to like, as they were dancing much of the night.

Other updates on the hip hop promotion is a website under construction, which will cover a range of types of music.

Also Paul has now decided on a new name and theme for his hip hop dancing company, Dance Factory. We have already put a poster up at Bognor Regis train station. Here is the design for Paul' s poster which I created with Paintshop Pro:-

Paul has loads of new and interesting content about hip hop and break-dance now on his site. I have advised that he put a contact link on dance related pages so if someone wishes ot book him for dance lessons then they will be able to, without wading through the rest of his site. The promotion and network has already had some success, we have a possible new member of the promotion and dance team. In the winter time of this year Paul and I have plans for a dance competition, so we hope to have many new project members, then things will be really exciting.