Showing posts with label hip hop. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hip hop. Show all posts

Shorecrest Hip Hop Team is on King 5 Wednesday morning, performing at the Moore Theatre Friday and Saturday

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

The Shorecrest Hip-Hop Team will be featured on KING-TV 5 morning news, Wednesday, July 6

The Shorecrest Hip-Hop team is spending the week in workshops at the Moore Theatre, training with professional dancers from a wide variety of dance styles for a show - Dance This - to be performed this Friday and Saturday, July 8 and 9, at the Moore Theater, 7:30pm. Tickets can be purchased through STGPresents.

The team is learning the choreography for styles from Afro-Brazilian with choreographer Dora Oliveira, to Tap with La Twon Allen, to Tahitian with Nanve Radford.

In addition, they were able to learn choreography from Joe Bowie, a dancer with the Mark Morris Dance Company. And they learned musical theatre choreography from the Broadway show West Side Story.

Each group involved will perform a routine of their own.

Coach Rex Kinney, who is teaching Hip Hop during the week, said that the Shorecrest Team will perform their competition routine from the WIAA State finals. 
"The Team took 2nd Place in a highly competitive 3A Hip Hop category." said Kinney, who was awarded "Coach of the Year" by the Washington State Dance/Drill Coaches Association for 1A/2A/3A schools.

2011 Shorecrest Hip Hop Dance Team
Coached by Rex Kinney (front, right)
Kinney said "the team will be rehearsing to finish the finale piece - a routine to close the show with all dancers - and getting to be on-stage at the Moore to tech their own number in the show. So that will be fun and exciting for the kids."

The line up for the show:



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Shorecrest Hip Hop 2nd at State; Coach receives "Coach of the Year" Award

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

The Shorecrest Hip-Hop Team competed at the WIAA State Dance Drill Championships on March 25 at the Yakima Sun Dome and took home 2nd Place in a highly competitive 3A Hip Hop category.

2011 Shorecrest Hip Hop Team

It was a close competition with the top three teams being within four points of each other, each receiving a Superior score rating. Shorecrest received a score of 480 out of 500, just a few points behind first place Sunnyside High School with their score of 484. Pasco High School took third place with a score of 476.

Coach Rex Kinney said, "Teams are judged by five judges and it was just a matter of a half point to a point from a few judges that made the difference in the overall score. The Shorecrest Hip Hop team was disappointed after doing so well this past year but was happy to take a trophy home. The team will look at this as an opportunity to grow and and will be hungry to do well again next season."

The team will have five graduating seniors this year with 11 juniors and three sophomores remaining. Shorecrest will audition new members May 2-6 to prepare for next season. Coach Kinney will look to bring in more underclassmen in anticipation of a large group of seniors leaving at the end of the 2011/2012 season.

Coach Rex Kinney named Coach of the Year
Kinney was awarded "Coach of the Year" by the Washington State Dance/Drill Coaches Association for 1A/2A/3A schools. 

Nominations come from the schools and the award is decided by a vote of Dance/Drill Coaches from the Washington organization. Finalists came from schools in Spokane, Sunnyside, Tumwater, and Tacoma. Kinney has been coaching and choreographing for the team since 2001 and will look to his 11th season with them next year along with community team adviser, Robin Martin.

The Shorecrest Hip Hop team will be performing for Seattle Theatre Group's production of "Dance This" held at the Moore Theater this summer in July. They will have an opportunity to perform with several local and national professional dance companies including the Mark Morris Dance Company.

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Shorecrest Hip Hop team takes district title for the 7th time

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

2011 Shorecrest Hip Hop Team
The Shorecrest Hip Hop Team competed this past weekend on March 12th at the District 1 - State Qualifier and took 1st place in the hip hop category.

This is their 7th consecutive District Title for the team which has now qualified for WIAA State Dance/Drill Championships being held on March 25-26th at the Yakima Sun Dome.

The Hip Hop team is the 3-time defending champion in the Hip Hop category, having won in 2006, 2009, and 2010. They will be competing against the best teams in the state of Washington in a highly competitive hip hop dance category.

Last season the team also travelled to New York City for Nationals and took 1st place honors in 3 categories including Small Hip Hop, Medium Hip Hop, and Overall.

The team is lead by captains Clinton Umbao and Amy Cha with officers James Kim and Grace Masaoka. They are coached and choreographed by Rex Kinney with community Advisor Robin Martin. Members include: Zahra Masaoka, Anne Elliott, Zachary Ong, Jason Umbao, Claudine De Leon, Sharnelle Cruz, Peter Joo, Erika Teng, Khan Malik, Ronel Nanhthaseng, Rachelle Sandoval, Maria Hernandez, Grace Oh, Melissa Tran, and Andrew Cruz.

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Links to Shorecrest Hip Hop performances

Monday, April 12, 2010

From Coach Rex Kinney, here are links to YouTube for both routines for Shorecrest High School's Championship Hip Hop Team. The videos were taken at the Washington Interscholastic Athletics Association where they won the state championship.

Hip Hop Routine

Show Routine


See our other stories about the Shorecrest Hip Hop Team.

Shorecrest Hip Hop State and National Champions

Shorecrest Hip Hop Team brings home the gold

Shorecrest Hip Hop take first place at district

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Shorecrest Hip Hop takes first place at District, second in Show

Monday, March 8, 2010


By Rex Kinney
Hip Hop Coach/Choreographer


The Shorecrest Hip Hop team competed at the District Qualifying Event for the State Championships on March 6 and took 1st Place in Hip Hop and 2nd Place in Show.

This is their 6th consecutive District Title for the Hip Hop category. The team has now qualified for the WIAA Dance/Drill State Championships on March 26-27 at the Yakima Sundome. They are coming in as the defending 3A State Champions from 2009 and will also be competing in the Show category for the first time at state. 


Ally Pickrel took 3rd place in Military Drill Downs and has also qualified for the State Military Drill Downs.

Before going to State, the hip hop team will be traveling across the nation to New York City to represent Shorecrest High School and the city of Shoreline at the Champion Tours Dance Nationals. The team, which includes 20 students and 10 adult chaperons, dance for a National Ranking. Teams from all over the country will be competing in a variety of categories including hip hop, military, pom, kick, and dance. The Shorecrest Hip Hop team will be competing two hip hop routines in the small and medium category of Hip Hop Dance.

See their District performance on YouTube.

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Physical Poetry at Shorecrest

Saturday, January 2, 2010

Shorecrest Hip Hop
Presents:
Physical Poetry 2010
January 15 and 16, 2010
8 pm Evening Shows
Shorecrest Performance Arts Center
15343 25th Ave NE
Shoreline, WA 98155

Tickets: $15 Presale / $18 at Door


(Taken to BrownPaperTickets.com)

Professional Dance Companies hit the stage of Shorecrest High School. The Shorecrest Hip Hop team will be hosting two nights of professional dancing featuring companies from all over the Northwest representing HIP HOP, SALSA, TANGO, JAZZ, TAP, MODERN, LYRICAL,  and more. 

This is a fundraiser to send the Shorecrest team to compete at the Nationals in New York City in March 2010. Shorecrest is the 2009 WIAA 3A Dance/Drill Hip Hop State Champions!! Join us for a family friendly event. Tickets can be purchased through Brown Paper Tickers or visiting Shorecrest HipHop

Photos courtesy SC HipHop

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