For the luv of It Inspiration

Jan­u­ary 17^th, 2010               Michael J Fox Theatre

Free Indus­try Workshops

1-2pm Carla Cather­wood (CMC Enter­tain­ment) & Joel Hanna (Rev­o­lu­tion NY, NY)
Dance Audi­tion Eti­quette and Pro­duc­ing 101

2:30 – 3:30pm
Deb­bie Cather­wood (CMC Enter­tain­ment)
Busi­ness Basics– Record Keep­ing for Performers

3:30 – 4:30pm Jessie Far­rell (Award Win­ning Coun­try Artist) & Oscar Fur­tado (Tan­dem Tracks –Radio Pro­moter)
How to get a record deal & get your indie song on the radio
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For the Luv of It!

Cre­ate. Edu­cate. Pay it Forward.

To reserve a seat please email

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spec­i­fy­ing which work­shop you want to attend

For the Luv of It Inspi­ra­tion
Sun­day Jan­u­ary 17th, 2010
Michael J Fox The­atre
Doors @ 5:00 Show @ 5:30
For Tick­ets go to www.ticketweb.ca
or call 1 – 888-222‑6608

Omar Khan

Omar Khan is a ver­i­ta­ble artist. Whether he is com­pos­ing and singing, host­ing shows, or
pho­tograph­ing he always loves what he does. Omar will be both per­form­ing and co-hosting the show.

Dia­monds In The Rough
This female Hip Hop group was founded by Darylle John­son & Natasha Gor­rie. As an out­let for their cre­ative visions, Dia­monds hopes to inspire oth­ers and help enhance the Van­cou­ver Art Com­mu­nity by bring­ing it to another level. Dia­monds In The Rough was recently invited to per­form at Car­ni­val ‘Chore­o­g­ra­phers Ball’ in Los Ange­les at The Key Club. They were the first group from West­ern Canada to rep­re­sent at this event, and the sec­ond group in all of Canada.  Dia­monds aims to make a pos­i­tive impres­sion on youth with their pas­sion for what they do. Dia­monds in the Rough are spon­sored by Blue Egg Entertainment

Fresh Groove Pro­duc­tions

Fresh Groove has become one of the lead­ing dance stu­dios ded­i­cated in teach­ing Hip Hop.  The Stu­dio is located in Rich­mond, BC with stu­dents rang­ing in age from 5 to 22 years from  all parts of the  lower main­land.  Some of the Pro­duc­tions and Com­pe­ti­tion high­lights:
Inter­na­tional Dance Chal­lenge (IDC) Over­all Ulti­mate Cham­pi­ons 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
Sur­rey Dance Fes­ti­val Over­all Grand Cham­pion 2009,World Hip Hop Cham­pi­ons– Junior Divi­sion 2007, Clos­ing cer­e­monies for Van­cou­ver 2010 Win­ter Olympics. Fresh Groove Pro­duc­tions con­tin­ues to work hard in train­ing and men­tor­ing  stu­dents to co con­tribute to the growth of our dance community

Sole Style

Sole Style is sen­sa­tional. Sole Style is style. Sole style is tap. Sole Style is hand­some. Sole Style is a duo. Sole Style is soul. This duo has been wow­ing audi­ences for years. They are Devon and Matisse, the duo that presents the best Canada has to offer in tap, espe­cially teenage tap. The style is funky. The style is elec­tri­fy­ing. Tap is a time­less art form and Devon and Matisse are inno­vat­ing on the art form. Devon and Matisse give thanks to every­one who helped them on the way.

Tessa Trach

Tessa has been singing since the age of six and is cur­rently attend­ing Capi­lano Uni­ver­sity in the Music Pro­gram. Through the pro­gram she sings with the Capi­lano Singers under the direc­tion of Lars Kaario. Prior to grad­u­a­tion she was actively involved in the Cen­ten­nial The­atre Com­pany. In her spare time she helps assist Belinda Sobie at Port Moody School of Dance and plays gui­tar. She hopes to break into the music scene one day as a coun­try singer.

“7 Deadly Sins”  — Angels

“7 Deadly Sins” formed in Sep¬tem¬ber of 2007, and the idea behind it was to have no restric¬tions.
The groups leader/choreographer, Heather Fur¬long, found 7 young dancers who wanted some¬thing dif¬fer¬ent, mod¬ern, and some¬thing that would push their bod¬ies past their men¬tal lim¬its.
The group has added new mem­bers and adopted an even greater pas­sion for the art of move­ment and expres­sion. Get¬ting more into the per¬for¬mance aspect of hip hop, “7 Deadly Sins” have been work¬ing on a few rou¬tines that have feel¬ing, emo¬tion, and some¬times even a story behind the moves.  This group wants peo¬ple to feel some¬thing, in the pit of their stom¬ach, and leave them want-ing more. “7 deadly Sins” ….free¬dom of move¬ment can’t be stopped
Heather Fur­long   Phae­dra Bourassa-Wright  Ariel Camp­bell  Katie Sim­mons  Kaela Bahrey
Alex Pimm  Chloe Allen  Aly Gaudet  Lana Skeete
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Zac Vran

Spi­ral Dance Com­pany of White Rock is where Zac trains  and cur­rently dances com­pet­i­tively in mod­ern, con­tem­po­rary, hip hop, jazz, stage, and tap.  He also trains in lyri­cal, bal­let and Pas de deux.  He has had the priv­i­lege of work­ing with chore­o­g­ra­phers Sher­rie Scherger, Brock Jel­li­son and Stew­art Iquidez.  Zac is also proud and excited to be chore­o­graph­ing his first com­pet­i­tive piece for a junior hip hop duo. Soon he will com­mence train­ing for the clos­ing cer­e­monies for the 2010 Win­ter Olympics.   Zac is also a mem­ber of “Freshh” with Fresh Groove Pro­duc­tions of Rich­mond, who, under the direc­tion of Cezar Tan­taco, has enjoyed many suc­cesses with his hip hop solo, duo and group rou­tines at both local and inter­na­tional lev­els.
Zac loves per­form­ing and rel­ishes the “rush” he gets from an appre­cia­tive audience.

Lyri­cal The­sis– Chore­o­graphed by Angela Lownes


Bernadette’s FreeStyle Dance Cen­tre Com­pany Class

These dancers study jazz, mod­ern, stage, tap, hip hop and train at the voca­tional level in  RAD bal­let. The major­ity of them have aspi­ra­tions of pur­su­ing a pro­fes­sional career in dance as either a per­former or teacher. They cher­ish their time at the stu­dio spent train­ing but are most thank­ful for the friend­ships they have formed with their fel­low dancers and the expe­ri­ences that dance has pro­vided them in the per­form­ing realm. Their teach­ers are grate­ful for their energy, com­mit­ment, and open­ness to the cre­ative process. We are grate­ful for this oppor­tu­nity to be a part of For The Luv of It! 2010. The Com­pany class includes: Carly Schmir­ler, Megan Friesen, Alysha Williams, Hanna Zetting, Sarah Far­ion, Carly Pen­ner, Holly McLean,  Hai­ley Kaay, Emily Belsher, Lexi Nickel, Emily Kevener, Kate Roberge (not shown)

Jasleen Power

Jasleen Powar loves to write, espe­cially for spo­ken word. The main ele­ment that intrigues her most is the aspect of how the­atri­cal one can take their piece of poetry. Jasleen has been writ­ing since the ele­men­tary days of grade 6, and con­tin­ues to do so to this day. She is cur­rently apart of Van­cou­ver Youth Slam team and has been slam­ming at Cafe Deux Soleil since late last year. Jasleen has many note­books filled with heart­felt words, and she knows that there are many, many more to come!

Lam­on­dance– RNB Sutdios

Lam­on­dance is a con­tem­po­rary dance com­pany based in North Van­cou­ver that pre­pares and chal­lenges the next gen­er­a­tion of young dancers.  The com­pany trains in diverse dance styles and per­forms inno­v­a­tive chore­og­ra­phy on a pro­fes­sional level.  The pro­gram is directed by Lara Bar­clay and Mon­ica Proenca and is gen­er­ously spon­sored by RNB Dance and The­atre Arts.  “Unframed”,  chore­o­graphed by Lara Bar­clay is an excerpt from our forth­com­ing show at Kay Meek Cen­tre on May 29th, 2010.  Photo by Jonathan Cruz

Sophis­ti­funk

Sophis­ti­funk, an all girls crew, have been together for a year.  The dancers, between the ages of 16 and 20 are all about hype and per­form­ing all  styles of hip hop.  This is their debut per­for­mance as an inde­pen­dent com­pany.
For more info con­tact   Christina Sofunkdance@gmail.com

Affin­ity Dance– Frog Dance

The A3 Com­pany from Affin­ity Dance is a group of our most ded­i­cated senior dancers that have been per­form­ing together for many years. They train exten­sively in a vari­ety of styles includ­ing RAD bal­let, jazz, lyri­cal, mod­ern, tap, stage, and hip hop. In addi­tion to the local fes­ti­vals these dancers attend, they have also trav­eled to com­pete in var­i­ous cities through­out the province as well as in the United States. Most recent were the Dance Power Cham­pi­onships in Hawaii, and the Pulse Dance Con­ven­tion in Las Vegas. This year the group is also par­tic­i­pat­ing in the Par­a­lympics Open­ing Cer­e­monies in March. Many of these girls are already seek­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties in the pro­fes­sional dance com­mu­nity, and will con­tinue to pur­sue careers in the years to come. They are grate­ful and excited to be per­form­ing at ‘For the Luv of It’, along­side many bril­liant local per­form­ers. To con­tact these dancers or inquire about Affin­ity Dance, please email  dancecat1970@hotmail.com

Joe Given

Joe is a 17 year old singer, song­writer, per­former, from Sur­rey, BC.  He’s won numer­ous awards and was one of the BC artists included in the Music BC pro­mo­tional mate­r­ial, pre­sented by Music BC on behalf of the BC Music Indus­try, at the Cana­dian Music Mis­sion to Asia: in Japan, Nov-08.
Joe has per­formed at over 250 events / shows over the past few years, includ­ing: the YMCA Power of Peace Awards 09; Sum­mer Enter­tain­ment on Granville Island 09; Inter­na­tional Pop Over­throw at the Rail­way Club 09; For the Luv of It Youth 09; numer­ous fes­ti­vals, com­mu­nity & char­i­ta­ble events, cer­e­monies, con­certs, & many pri­vate events.    He is really look­ing for­ward to being a part of “For the Luv of It Inspi­ra­tion!”  Joe’s goal in life, is to work with music in ways that help to make a pos­i­tive dif­fer­ence and con­tribute to peace.  He has a new CD com­ing out in Jan­u­ary, 2010.   More details :   www.joegiven.com           Email:info@joegiven.com

The Source, ITP & Make Your Mark Dance Crew

Har­bour Dance– The Source, ITP & Make Your Mark Dance Crew

Estab­lished in 1985 by part­ners Danielle Clif­ford and Pamela Quick-Rosa, Har­bour Dance is at the cen­ter of Vancouver’s dance scene. Our world-class fac­ulty offers a vari­ety of dance forms for adult dancers of all lev­els. Open 7 days a week with a dif­fer­ent sched­ule of classes every day, Har­bour Dance Cen­tre is the per­fect choice for every­one from sea­soned pro­fes­sion­als to adult begin­ners to enjoy a sat­is­fy­ing dance expe­ri­ence in a relaxed and fun atmos­phere. 927 Granville Street in Van­cou­ver, B.C.  Per­form­ing tonight will be The Source, ITP and Make Your Mark com­bin­ing their rou­tines into one pro­duc­tion number

Inter­mis­sion

MISCELLANEOUS Pro­duc­tions — Natasha Pheko

MISCELLANEOUS Pro­duc­tions brings in teams of pro­fes­sional artists to col­lab­o­rate with cul­tur­ally diverse, multi-barriered youth.  Carla Cather­wood is proud to be one of the pro­fes­sion­als that work with these tal­ented youth.
MISCELLANEOUS Pro­duc­tions’ POWER 2 pre­sent­ing I am Not a Toy writ­ten and per­formed by Natasha Pheko.  Directed and dra­maturged by Elaine Carol.  Photo by Chris Ran­dle.
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Spi­ral Dance Com­pany– A Mans’ World

Spi­ral Dance Co of White Rock is proud to present this won­der­ful group of tal­ented and charis­matic dancers, rang­ing in ages 15 to 18. Most mem­bers of this skilled and dynamic group have danced com­pet­i­tively together since the age of 7. They are a bonded group of dancers, whose energy and cohe­sive­ness shines on stage. Aver­ag­ing 15 plus hours a week of train­ing, they com­pete in all areas of dance, includ­ing Jazz, Mod­ern, Con­tem­po­rary, Hip Hop, Tap, Lyri­cal and Stage. They also train in Ballet/Pointe and Pas de deux. This rec­og­nized and accom­plished group of dancers have enjoyed many suc­cesses over the years and rel­ish any oppor­tu­nity to show­case their passion

FlowEthics

FlowEthics is a local, inde­pen­dent dance crew that was formed through friend­ships and their pas­sion for dance. With dance and music as their com­mon denom­i­na­tor FlowEthics is con­stantly striv­ing to con­tribute to the local dance scene by bring­ing inno­va­tion to the stage.

Flow // to move, to stream, to emerge Ethics // val­ues, sig­nif­i­cance, worth

Affin­ity Dance– Duo– Think About It

Dewy Michaels and Con­nor Wil­son are of male gen­der in their mid to really late twen­ties. They were both born in Yemen, Israel but picked up their New Zealand accents dur­ing their world trav­els: to New Zealand and Saskatchewan. At a young age they were signed with chore­o­g­ra­pher Tis­Tis Cho Mama, who has now passed. Here began their jour­ney to suc­cess. Their teen years were full of set­backs; Con­nor deal­ing with weight issues, and Dewy hav­ing trou­bles find­ing him­self. They pulled through and decided, soon after, to put their prob­lems into lyrics. They now per­form on the streets express­ing their world views and grab­bing fash­ion tips from the needy.

The Land­ing — Rag Doll

The Land­ing brought together aspir­ing dancers from var­i­ous lev­els and cre­ated an oppor­tu­nity for them to expe­ri­ence the full scope of being in a pro­fes­sional rehearsal set­ting. Each per­son learned to rec­og­nize the value of their strengths within a group as well as the oppor­tu­ni­ties to learn from their peers. This par­tic­u­lar piece fea­tures dancers from all the reper­tory pro­grams as well as mem­bers of The Land­ing Dance Project; a youth based dance com­pany com­prised of young dancers that show the utmost com­mit­ment to and poten­tial in the arts. These dancers got the chance to work with chore­o­g­ra­pher Julio Fuentes who cre­ated the ener­getic piece. Dancers in the reper­tory pro­grams have been fea­tured in events such as Win­ter­groove, The Children’s Fes­ti­val, IGNITE! Youth Fes­ti­val, The Provin­cial Hon­ours Per­for­mance, The Santa Claus Parade and The Canada Day Parade.

Xtreme Cheer & Dance– The Riddlers

Com­ing to you from “Xtreme Cheer and Dance” in Lan­g­ley, BC . This high fly­ing Hip Hop team was formed in the sum­mer of 2009. They are chore­o­graphed under the eye of chore­o­g­ra­pher Paul Otter­bein. Led by their Cap­tain Made­lyn Hall and Assis­tants Angel and Stephanie, this tal­ented and enter­tain­ing group will be rep­re­sent­ing Canada in Hawaii,USA in Feb 2010 at  Aloha Cheer and Dance Cham­pi­onships in the Var­sity Hip Hop Cat­e­gory. They have already been guest per­form­ers this sum­mer at Rich­mond Night Mar­ket and have turned many heads with their acro­bat­ics and pow­er­ful hard hit­ting Hip Hop rou­tine.  This group is hard work­ing, ded­i­cated and most of all, full of heart, hum­ble­ness and a belief in them­selves and their team.

MISCELLANEOUS Pro­duc­tions– It’s Just the Way I Am

MISCELLANEOUS Pro­duc­tions brings in teams of pro­fes­sional artists to col­lab­o­rate with cul­tur­ally diverse, multi-barriered youth.  Carla Cather­wood is proud to be one of the pro­fes­sion­als that work with these tal­ented youth.

MISCELLANEOUS Pro­duc­tions’ presents POWER 2 — It’s Just the Way I Am -  writ­ten and per­formed by Roberto Hidalgo with the Ensem­ble.  Directed and dra­maturged by Elaine Carol.  Photo by Chris Randle.

The IPP of Port Moody School of Dance

The dancers of the Inten­sive Per­for­mance Pro­gram have all been selected for their tal­ent, work ethic, and drive to suc­ceed.  This group is com­bined of 7 young dancers between 13 – 14 years of age and they have danced together for many years.  This year is the first year the girls will push to new heights as they extend their train­ing hours and have com­mit­ted to a dance sched­ule that will find them­selves train­ing 20 hours per week. The girls of the Inten­sive Per­for­mance Pro­gram most of all enjoy per­form­ing and know that each stage is an oppor­tu­nity to show their pas­sion and share their com­mit­ment to their love.  These are dancers are just at the begin­ning of prepar­ing for a full life in the field of dance!

Rick Buck­man Coe

Rick Buck­man Coe daz­zles his audi­ence with Yoga inspired music.

Sick Stylz Symphony

Sick Stylz Sym­phony is enter­ing its sec­ond sea­son with con­fi­dence and strength from its well-received debut year! In its first sea­son, found­ing direc­tors Marc Gen­eroso and JP Tar­lit led Sick Stylz to Seattle’s Inter­na­tional Dance Com­pe­ti­tion, Vancouver’s pro­fes­sional show­case – Set It Off, and this summer’s GMA North Amer­i­can Pinoy Dance Show­down.  With a new ros­ter, higher expec­ta­tions, and an array of estab­lished chore­o­g­ra­phers and teach­ers as inspi­ra­tions and men­tors, Sick Stylz Sym­phony is a cat­a­lyst for dancers all over the lower main­land to come together and build Vancouver’s rep­u­ta­tion as a uni­fied and cred­i­ble dance com­mu­nity.   Name of the per­for­mance “Drumline”

Spot­light Dance Cen­tre– Ballerebel

Spot­light Dance Cen­tre is a highly respected and pro­fes­sional school that is cel­e­brat­ing its 24th anniver­sary this year. It has the dis­tinc­tion of being voted “Best Dance School” in Burn­aby for 12 years in a row by NOW news­pa­per read­ers.  Tal­ented Spot­light stu­dents, trained in all forms of dance, are con­sis­tently invited to show­case their tal­ents at var­i­ous local com­pe­ti­tions and events.  They have earned numer­ous awards and acco­lades locally as well as through­out B.C.   Spot­light stu­dents have dis­tin­guished them­selves at the BC Fes­ti­val of the Arts with win­ners and runners-up at the Provin­cials in all dance cat­e­gories.  Many Spot­light alumni are now teach­ers and per­form­ers in the fields of jazz, tap, bal­let, mod­ern dance and musi­cal the­atre and their per­for­mance venues include The­atre Under the Stars, Toronto Dance The­atre, Uni­ver­sal Stu­dios Osaka, Arts Club The­atre, Bal­let BC’s “Nut­cracker”, Royal City Musi­cal pro­duc­tions, PNE Pro­duc­tions, cruise ships and danc­ing for the troops in Afghanistan.

Bravo Dance Com­pany & Drive Dance Cen­tre Schol­ar­ship Program

Bravo Dance Com­pany was formed in early 2005 by W.S.F. World Salsa Cham­pion, Alfonso Caldera. Com­bin­ing tal­ent from var­i­ous fields of dance, Bravo dance team con­sists of a mix­ture of pro­fes­sional dancers. With Alfonso Caldera as the director/choreographer, he leads a strong pack of dancers.  The Bravo style can be described as fierce, fast, and aggres­sive; with atti­tude, held together by pro­fes­sion­al­ism and show­man­ship. Alfonso has brought crisp clean instruc­tional classes and tech­niques of Bravo Style Salsa to Van­cou­ver, his pres­ence & drive has brought inter­na­tional recog­ni­tion, inspi­ra­tion and cul­ture to this great city.  www.bravodancecompany.com The Drive Dance Cen­tre Schol­ar­ship Pro­gram is Vancouver’s only train­ing pro­gram that focuses equally on both the busi­ness and train­ing aspects of dance. We will pre­pare you both phys­i­cally and men­tally to pur­sue a pos­i­tive and suc­cess­ful career in dance. All fac­ulty mem­bers in the pro­gram are affil­i­ated with work­ing com­pa­nies in Van­cou­ver.  www.drivedancecentre.com

SOULdiers

The SOULdiers Com­pany is a group of semi-professional dancers that share an inter­est in study­ing hip hop cul­ture. Under the direc­tion of Kim Sato, the com­pany hopes to inspire the com­mu­nity through their per­for­mances around the city and show that hip hop can iden­tify with and be a very pos­i­tive influ­ence on today’s youth.  The com­pany cur­rently has 33 mem­bers who are study­ing the his­tory of move­ment behind hip hop dance, the influ­ence of video dance on hip hop cul­ture and train­ing in the funk styles, espe­cially lock­ing and pop­ping. You can check out the Souldiers com­pany at www.projectsoulproductions.com.
The piece is called “Black and Gold” and is chore­o­graphed by Kim Sato and Bon­nie Wong.

Joel Hanna & Guests

Once you see Joel Hanna dance, you don’t for­get him.  He has toured the world with River­dance, Danc­ing on Dan­ger­ous Ground, Fire of Dance  has chore­o­graphed, pro­duced and toured with  his pro­duc­tion Rev­o­lu­tion – The Show which  fused tap and Rock and Roll.  He and his guests will amaze the audience!

TwoFour­Se­ven Dance Crew

Directed, Chore­o­graphed and founded by Jerome Esplana (Co-Founders include Justin Ray Oquendo, Justin Paysan, and Gino Coro­n­ado), TwoFour­Se­ven believes that “if you want to be the best you can be, you must do your best, 24/7.” The name TwoFour­Se­ven is not just applied to danc­ing – to be a bet­ter per­son in life, one must love 24/7, respect 24/7, laugh and smile 24/7, etc. By fol­low­ing this, these indi­vid­u­als want to become bet­ter dancers — it is their pas­sion. By already being part of sev­eral dance com­pa­nies – Fresh Groove Pro­duc­tions, Sick STYLZ Sym­phony, La Riva Dance Stu­dio, and Praise Team, this group wants to show that dif­fer­ent stu­dios and com­pa­nies shouldn’t have any rival­ries as dance is some­thing to be sup­ported by all. Instead, it should be thought of one big fam­ily of dancers. It’s One Love.

For the Luv of It! INSPIRATION Col­lab­o­ra­tion of Youth & Pro Per­form­ers
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Over $4000.00 worth of Hon­orary Scholarships

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