Sunday, February 10, 2008

CNY 2008: Singers & Dancers

The "New Clothes For The New Year" event also featured numerous musical and dance performances. Mostly by locals and some out of towners. This guy above, David Tsai is from Taiwan I think? Mandarin hip hop/rapper, he was actually decent. In the background is the cHip cHop cRew, a local group of hip hop dancers. All chinese but they also belong to the Virtue Dance Crew which is a larger group and a mix of different ethnicities, and perform many styles of dance.

More of the cHip cHop cRew. I think the average age of these girls was 14 years old. They were all pretty good hip hop dancers...definitely the new age of Asians that have rhythm and can dance...excluding of course Chinese-Jamaicans :P

The girl on the left in the above image is Jessica Loh, one of the dancers but also a budding singer. She sang a few solos throughout the weekend. 14 years old on stage singing alone in front of a large audience, pretty brave. Her voice isn't bad either...maybe one day she'll be the next Wellington pop star.

Bettuh Recognize...I think that's they're spelling and not their "chinglish". Larger hip hop/breakdance crew. Like the cHip cHop cRew, I was pretty impressed with the moves on them. Just like any RnB music video you'd see on tv these days. Give it up for the Asians with rhythm! :)

In addition to the breaking, Bettuh Recognize also did a hip hop routine featuring more guys and girls. And one last one, processed a little differently cause I'm on a Velvia kick right now. Kind of mimicking the 'look' that you get from Velvia film. Very punchy and saturated.

Natalie Foy, I think she was one of the volunteer models, but was also one of the musical talents at the show, evident from the photo.

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