'America's Best Dance Crew' and worldwide Diversity
After the excitement of Shawn Johnson's win on "Dancing With The Stars," the popularity of "America's Best Dance Crew" and the success of "So You Think You Can Dance," if any doubt remains of dance's resurgence into mainstream popularity, witness the success of Diversity.
Fans chose the British dance group to win "Britain's Got Talent" even though they faced the worldwide popularity of singer Susan Boyle, who came in second.
The 10-member troupe from Essex and London was rewarded with 100,000 pounds ($160,000) and will dance for the Queen at the Royal Variety Performance. Would the "So You Think You Can Dance" or "America's Best Dance Crew" winners ever get to perform in front of President Barack Obama? Maybe someday.
The win also shows that even though they made inroads with the Puerto Rican 'G.O.P.' dance crew last season, "America's Best Dance Crew" could easily become "World's Best Dance Crew" if MTV put their minds (and money) to it. It's probably an expensive venture to bring them out and put them up, but looking at events like the World Hip-Hop Dance Championship in Las Vegas, we know that the crews are out there.
We'll see another winner for "ABDC" soon, as the auditions get underway for Season 4 this week. Any crews out there know this (I hope), but here are next week's audition details:
Los Angeles
Saturday June 6
Foresight Studios
3501 W. Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90026
www.foresight-studios.com
Chicago
Tuesday June 9
Superior Street
2744 W. Superior St.
Chicago, IL 60612
www.superiorst.com
Orlando, Fla.
Thursday June 11
Spotlight Dance Center
Crown Pointe Commerce Park
7751 Kingpointe Pkwy -- Suite 102
Orlando, FL 32819
www.spotlightdancecenter.com
New York
Sunday June 14
S.I.R. Studios
520 W. 25th St.
Between 10th & 11th
New York, NY 10001
www.sirny.com
OK, now back to this world thing. Think about it: The winner of the upcoming "ABDC" season battles with JabbaWockeez, Super Cr3w, Quest Crew and Diversity -- then add five other crews worldwide -- to vie for the title of world's best dance crew! (And yes, I've thrown the "Superstars of Dance" experiment out of my head.)
Is there a dance channel on cable yet? Until there is, get on it, MTV.
-- Jevon Phillips
There are eleven of them.
Do you get all your info from wikipedia by any chance?
Posted by: david | May 30, 2009 at 09:05 PM
Jabbawokeez would pwn all.
Posted by: Cory | May 31, 2009 at 09:51 AM
That's the thing. If you watch Diversitys' routine in the final and the semi on youtube, I don't think Jabbawokeez can touch them.
Posted by: Ste Phillips | June 01, 2009 at 11:12 AM
Diversity just copied from Philipine Allstars on Amerca's Best Dance Crew 2007. Check out the Transformer thingy. It's old School. Loads of other bits are from different crews also and they claim they are totally original. That is questionable. Think there were much better acts in the show
Posted by: Honesty Pays Off | June 01, 2009 at 01:17 PM
world best dance crew line up
jabba
quest
supercrew
abdc season 4 winner
beat freaks
phillipine all star
expression crew
diversity
last for one
groovaloos
i feel like i should be adding some japanese crews here, but no names come to mind at the moment.
transformers --> philippine all stars first, (then boogie bots) but diversity's variation on it was pretty good. boogie bots wasn't that good.
Posted by: allan | June 03, 2009 at 12:07 AM
you people are crazy -.- , JabbaWockeeZ is not the best crew in the world, probably not the best in the world, I mean im a huge fan but get it right guys, geez, you guys are basing this on a TV show thats rigged to make money
Posted by: david | July 17, 2009 at 10:49 PM