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Mark Hackman
John Mark Hackman is an American choreographer, writer and stage producer. Most notably recognized as the creator and executive director of street dance performance company Chicago Dance Crash, Hackman is also the founding choreographer of photography/performance project The Living Canvas under the directorship of Pete Guither as well as the cofounder of ''The Keeper of The Floor Championship (KTF)'' alongside dancer/actor Kyle Terry – the production now being recognized as one of the longest-running professional "all styles" dance battles in the United States. Hackman's writings are known for a live production style of storytelling that combines stunt A stunt is an unusual, difficult, dramatic physical feat that may require a special skill, performed for artistic purposes usually for a public audience, as on television or in theaters or cinema. Stunts are a feature of many action films. Befo ... work and dance with recorded narration and dialogue. This concept has been see ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greensboro
Greensboro (; ) is a city in Guilford County, North Carolina, United States, and its county seat. At the 2020 census, its population was 299,035; it was estimated to be 307,381 in 2024. It is the third-most populous city in North Carolina, after Charlotte and Raleigh, and the 69th-most populous city in the United States. The population of the Greensboro–High Point metropolitan statistical area was estimated to be 789,842 in 2023. The Piedmont Triad region, of which Greensboro is the most populous city, had an estimated population of 1,736,099 in 2023. In 1808, Greensboro was planned around a central courthouse square to succeed Guilford Court House as the county seat. The county courts were thus placed closer to the county's geographical center, a location more easily reached at the time by the majority of the county's citizens, who traveled by horse or on foot. Three major Interstate Highways (Interstate 40, Interstate 85, and Interstate 73) in the Piedmont region of c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Street Dance
Street dance is an umbrella term for a large number of social dance styles such as: breakdancing, popping, Locking (dance), locking, house dance, waacking, voguing, etc. Social dance styles have many accompanying steps and foundations, created organically from a culture, a moment in time, a way of life, influenced by natural social interaction. A street dance is a vernacular dance in an urban context. Vernacular dances are often improvisational and social dance, social in nature, encouraging interaction and contact with spectators and other dancers. These dances are a part of the vernacular culture of the geographical area that they come from. History Street dance evolved during the 1970s outside dance studios in any available open space. This includes streets, dance parties, block parties, parks, school yards, raves, and nightclubs. This is partly because African Americans who created the style were generally not accepted into dance studios because of their race. A significan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago Dance Crash
Chicago Dance Crash is an American physical theater and street dance company based in Chicago, Illinois. The company tours year round while sustaining a calendar year ‘season’ of local premiers and commercial work as well as a spring/fall educational outreach program. The company has received widespread critical acclaim while being considered one of the most notable American dance companies to emerge during the first decade of the 2000s. Established in 2002, the organization has commissioned well over 100 original works from choreographers including Harrison McEldowney, James Morrow, Annie Franklin, Amirah Sackett and Nicholas Leichter. Crash is led by Artistic Director KC Bevis and Executive Director Jessica Maya Leyva and is a resident company of Visceral Dance Center in Chicago, IL. History Chicago Dance Crash was founded by Illinois State University graduates Marissa Moritz, Charlie Cutler and Mark Hackman as a professional outlet for works the trio had created as st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Living Canvas
The Living Canvas is an American performance art and photography project that uses lighting, sound, and multimedia imagery, displaying video or photographic projections onto nude performers. Founded by writer, musician and activist Pete Guither,also the founder/creator of the activist blog DrugWarRant, he's recently endowed the Theatrical Experimentation Fund at Illinois State University where the performance aspect of the project was created. Performing and touring steadily throughout the 2000s and 2010s, the project most recently acts as a curatorial hub and outreach arm for Guither's photography and directorial collaborations with peer performance companies. In his autobiography, Guither wrote at length about the concerns raised by conservative critics, relatives of the performers as well as his own mother and father. "My generally conservative parents came out to see the show once. I don't think they loved it, but they seemed to appreciate the artistry, and my dad liked th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stunt
A stunt is an unusual, difficult, dramatic physical feat that may require a special skill, performed for artistic purposes usually for a public audience, as on television or in theaters or cinema. Stunts are a feature of many action films. Before computer-generated imagery special effects, these depictions were limited to the use of models, false perspective and other in-camera effects, unless the creator could find someone willing to carry them out, even such dangerous acts as jumping from car to car in motion or hanging from the edge of a skyscraper: the stunt performer or stunt double. Types of stunt effects Practical effects One of the most-frequently used practical stunts is stage combat. Although contact is normally avoided, many elements of stage combat, such as sword fighting, martial arts, and acrobatics required contact between performers in order to facilitate the creation of a particular effect, such as noise or physical interaction. Stunt performances are highly c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hip-hop Culture
Hip-hop culture is an art movement that emerged in New York City, in the borough of The Bronx; Primarily within the black community. Hip Hop as an art form and culture has been heavily influenced by both male and female artists. It is characterized by the key elements of rapping, Disc jockey, DJing and turntablism, and breakdancing; other elements include graffiti, beatboxing, street entrepreneurship, hip hop language, and hip-hop fashion. Many cite Hip Hop's emergence as beginning in August 1973 when brother–sister duo DJ Kool Herc and Cindy Campbell hosted the first documented indoor hip hop party and culture event in the Bronx; Helping to spark the rise of the genre. However many hiphop pioneers and historians contend that Hip Hop did not have just one founding father. The black Spades street gang and Disco King Mario, Disco king Mario of the Bronxdale Houses are also considered a vital part in the early origins of Hip Hop culture and music. As Disco King Mario was hostin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newcity
Newcity is a media company based in Chicago, founded in 1986 by Brian and Jan Hieggelke." It started as the ''Newcity'' independent, free weekly newspaper in Chicago. Effective March 2017, the founders changed the newspaper into a glossy monthly free magazine, using the same ''Newcity'' name. As of March 2018, the firm also "publishes a suite of content-focused web sites", also under the ''Newcity'' name, and creates custom publications to order. Content ''Newcity'' specializes in music, stage, film and art and is notable for launching the careers of numerous cartoonists and writers and art critics. The publication was described by the ''Chicago Tribune'' in 1995 as "sophisticated" and as an "alternative weekly" which was a niche publication in the ''digital space'' in 2005. Between 2000 and 2010, It reported its newspaper circulation within Chicago to be about 70,000 per week. A popular issue is its ''Best of Chicago'' feature in writers assign the best and worst of Chicago ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000s
File:2000s decade montage3.png, From top left, clockwise: The Twin Towers of the original World Trade Center (1973–2001), World Trade Center on fire and the Statue of Liberty on the left during the September 11 attacks, terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001; the euro enters into European currency in 2002; a statue of Saddam Hussein being toppled during the Iraq War in 2003, and in 2006, Hussein would be Execution of Saddam Hussein, executed for crimes against humanity; U.S. troops heading toward an army helicopter in War in Afghanistan (2001–2021), Afghanistan during the war on terror; social media platforms on the internet Web 2.0, become widely popular; a Chinese soldier gazes at the 2008 Summer Olympics commencing in Beijing; the 2008 financial crisis, the largest financial crisis since the Great Depression; 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, a tsunami from the Indian Ocean earthquake kills over 230,000 in 2004, and becomes the strongest earthquake since the 1964 Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Performing Arts
The performing arts are arts such as music, dance, and drama which are performed for an audience. They are different from the visual arts, which involve the use of paint, canvas or various materials to create physical or static art objects. Performing arts include a range of disciplines which are performed in front of a live audience, including theatre, music, and dance. Theatre, music, gymnastics, object manipulation, and other kinds of performances are present in all human cultures. The history of music and dance date to pre-historic times whereas circus skills date to at least Ancient Egypt. Many performing arts are performed professionally. Performance can be in purpose-built buildings, such as theatres and opera houses; on open air stages at festivals; on stages in tents, as in circuses; or on the street. Live performances before an audience are a form of entertainment. The development of audio and video recording has allowed for private consumption of the performin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago
Chicago is the List of municipalities in Illinois, most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States. With a population of 2,746,388, as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it is the List of United States cities by population, third-most populous city in the United States after New York City and Los Angeles. As the county seat, seat of Cook County, Illinois, Cook County, the List of the most populous counties in the United States, second-most populous county in the U.S., Chicago is the center of the Chicago metropolitan area, often colloquially called "Chicagoland" and home to 9.6 million residents. Located on the shore of Lake Michigan, Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837 near a Chicago Portage, portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River, Mississippi River watershed. It grew rapidly in the mid-19th century. In 1871, the Great Chicago Fire destroyed several square miles and left more than 100,000 homeless, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Hip-hop Dancers
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21st-century American Dramatists And Playwrights
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