Monday, April 09, 2012

Happenings: Luther Brown's Workshop

Date: Friday April 6, 2012





Luther Brown is one of the foundations of the Toronto Hiphop Dance scene. You are not a dancer if you don't know who Luther Brown is. He currently lives in Los Angeles, as a very successful choreographer. On Friday he held a workshop at OIP dance studio, located in Downtown Toronto. It was packed with all the people you needed to know, people supporting each other, supporting the community, supporting Luther Brown. 

Back in the day when I was still young, and in the Jr. VYbE team, I was fortunate enough to meet and learn from Luther Brown (Thanks, Tee!). Although I'm sure he doesn't remember me, I would never forget that time he taught us and introduced us to his style. 

His workshop was tiring, but so fun and challenging to me. His style is quite different to my own style, and so to emulate his style onto my own body took a little bit more work. When it came to doing the routine in groups, everyone danced with so much energy as if it were an audition. I learned a lot from that, because in this industry, if you want to be seen, you need to show the world what you've got. And you never know which time you dance will the right people be watching you, so dance your heart out, every chance you get. That's what I learned from this workshop.

Inspire Each Other,

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