After a successful workshop last Summer, Peridance is delighted to invite back Natalie Thomas.

William Forsythe Tech/ Rep with Natalie Thomas

Every Saturday in January, 3-4:30pm

Natalie Thomas will be teaching a Workshop in Improvisational Movement, a movement approach based on William Forsythe dance technologies.

HEY! So for this last round of the contest we had to choreograph and perform our own solos! exciting, eh? well here's mine!

It really is amazing how the internet is bringing us as dancers so much closer together. I say this because, while being a contestant in Show YouTube You Can Dance, my videos have received more views than ever before, sometimes in only just one day. I have nearly 200 comments on my round 3 entry and all I can do is stare at my blurry computer screen, feeling humbled in amazement, because so many folks from all over the world are watching me dance.

I looked at my sites statistics, and never had I imagined that my videos would be popular in the United Kingdom, or Canada, or Spain, and especially not somewhere like Guam.

Hi, i'm Teddy and i love to dance. Right now I'm in this really cool contest on youtube called "Show YouTube You Can Dance". The contest is much like so you think you can dance in that it relies on votes for you to advance to the next round. Also, the contestants must learn combinations off of an instructional video on youtube each round. The youtube public must leave a comment on your video containg the word "vote" in it if they wish to vote for you. got it? kay moving along.

I just finished learning our new combination for the next round of the competition. It was a little bit hard to learn because of the method of teaching the choreographer chose but luckily i was able to rewind. I really like the music, i actually went ahead and downloaded quite a few of the covers they had. Vitamin Sting Quartet. I havent come up with an interesting concept for my video yet, but i intend to video it this weekend and start getting those votes.
This round votes save only the top 5 dancers so its really important to vote for those dancers you think deserve to stay in the competition. Judges will be saving 5 of the 10 remaining dancers as well.

IN THE MEAN TIME... enjoy this video

Above: Matt Cady's choreography reel

Monsters of Contemporary, Monster's of HipHop's newest adventure coming early 2009, is thrilled to announce that choreographer Matt Cady will be joining the faculty. Matt joins Wes Veldink, Sonya Tayeh, Peter Chu and Jillian Meyers. Matt's creativity was highlighted when his "crew", Fanny Pak, found success on MTV's America's Best Dance Crew. Even prior to the show, Matt had a tremendous following at his classes at Debbie Reynolds Dance Studio in North Hollywood.

Tour dates and information will be released very soon at www.monstersofhiphop.com. Don't miss a unique format and another quality event brought to you by the Monsters Family!

Thank you for your continued support.

-Peace
Andy Funk

As I was lying in bed last night I came up with an outline for a new work. This project has been at the back of my mind for months, years - but until now I have not had enough distance.  Have not felt strong enough to tackle it.

I want to make a piece that is mostly auto-biographical. It will be a duet between myself and a male dancer. The concept of the work will revolve around my dysfunctional relationship with my ex-husband.