"Ain't a way around it no more, I am the greatest A lotta niggas sat on the throne, I am the latest I am the bravest, go toe to toe with the giants I ain't afraid of you niggas, I'll end up fading you niggas... We all kings Kings of ourselves first and foremost While [...]
Tag: dance
The Mental Dance Class: 5 Tips 4 the Heady Dancer
Over the past few days I have been listening to a podcast series called "The Overwhelmed Brain" by Paul Colaianni. The episodes consist of interviews that discuss ways in which people develop their minds in order to achieve their definition of success. I found the podcast in a general attempt to find multiple sources that [...]
MFA Project: Episode 1: Pilot
Over the holidays I've been processing about my MFA project that I have to create in order to, for a lack of better words, establish my legitimacy as a graduate student in dance at The Ohio State University and show how artfully intellectual I am which I'm clearly doing by writing this long-behind sentence... I've [...]
Moment of Silent Screams [Video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI_tJxgPv4g&feature=youtu.be I am in the midst of creating a stage concert work called "From Within. And Back Again" that focuses on conventions in life that help to spark ones soul. Whether it be an overwhelming joy, anger, or sorrow, there are moments in life where our spirits feel as though they want to burst beyond [...]
The V-Spot: Lightness in Hiphop Dance
As I have worked on my composition skills in the graduate level, I have had moments where I realize I am uncomfortable as I move- but I'm never uncomfortable when I'm moving…unless…unless I feel a sense of vulnerability. That feeling creeps and consumes my soul in few instances: when I am ill-prepared to present, performing [...]
“All In My Head” Choreography (Artist: Tori Kelly)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrEL0tIo7fY Hey y'all! So this is my last video of the semester, I feel like it has been an amazing journey at OSU so far and I wanted to cap it off by going back to what I love to naturally do choreographically- create videos that highlight the dance using my own movement voice. This [...]
“Like” and “Ballet” Can Go In the Same Sentence?!
Throughout the first three of five years I have been dancing, nobody could convince that I would remotely enjoy ballet. From the form-fitting tights that showed too much information to the stiff torsos that meandered around the stage, everything about the form disgusted my Hiphop being. I could not wrap my head around how anyone [...]
Speaking into the future…
This picture is a mock-promotion of a class that my future-company would host for its community. Although I am far away from anything of the sort, I do believe in speaking into the future as though it is true.
Movement Lifestyle theTour Part 2
Movement Lifestyle theTour Part 2 My video made it to the top 5 in the Movement Lifestyle Tour video contest! It is such an honor. To have the people who I look up to even pay attention to my work is such a blessing, but to be selected as a finalist is something that has [...]
Movement Lifestyle Tour Contest
Movement Lifestyle Tour Contest Movement Lifestyle (ML) is pretty much a monopoly within the Hiphop agency business over in Los Angeles. They have contracts with a lot of the top mainstream Hiphop choreographers and dancers that exist on the west coast. However, it is much more than an agency. It literally is a movement. The [...]
Quilan 'Cue' Arnold 