GW Admissions Student Blog: Capital Funk

Friday, July 27, 2012

9 Student Organized Events You Need to Attend

Hey Yall,

People always ask "What does the typical GW student do on the weekend?"

I usually answer that with 10,000 kids it's difficult to summarize all the unique options we have as an school located in downtown Washington, DC. Between the National Mall, the Museums and Zoo, the restaurants and professional sport options it may seem as if students are rarely on campus. And while our lack of a football team is often cited as a lack of school spirit I believe that we more than make up for it through student organized events.

Below are 9 events you won't want to miss this coming year:

1- Holi
   An Indian festival marked by throwing color pellets at others March
2- Capital Funk Showcase
   G Dub's very own hip hop team brings together other crews to perform April
3- Bake Sales in Ivory Tower
   Sooner or later (probably sooner) you'll walk past a bake sale in Ivory. You should donate. EVERY night.
4- Raas Chaos
    Indian dance group Raas holds an an annual competition of teams from schools in the region November
5- Greek Life Recruitment
Learn about the sororities and fraternities on campus from the brothers and sisters! Throughout the fall

Monday, April 30, 2012

Lesson #006: There is no “funk” like Capital Funk.

Lesson #006: There is no “funk” like Capital Funk.

Good evening, buff and blue Colonials. I’m about to present to you a fairly unique blog. In my five previous blog posts, I have written about experiences that involved walking around (see: Chalk-In), sitting (see: Excellence in Student Life Awards), standing still (see: Spring Fling/A Capella performances), and jumping up and down (see: Colonial Army). For the first time, I am going to write about something a bit more active and, potentially, even more fun. I am not just writing about “fun”. I am writing about “funk”, but not just any “funk”. I am writing about “Capital Funk”.

Yesterday evening, for the second year in a row, I attended Capital Funk’s Annual Hip Hop Showcase, by the name of “Funk Academy”. Capital Funk is a hip hop dance crew which has electrified GWU from campus to campus and from event to event. In the past 3 weeks alone, Capital Funk won "Best Choreography" at GW's Represent dance competition as well as a Excellence Award for Performance Group of the Year. In fact, the performance was preceded by the following video, which is absolutely hilarious: http://vimeo.com/41232716

After that, the performance began. Naturally, I captured video of it for all of you. Here is Capital Funk’s full opening performance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xVT0R5aLpY

The Showcase itself was not all about Capital Funk. Drew Law, Kevin Norchi and Jared Stokes, Ryan Thornton (of the GW Vibes), and Culture Shock DC were only the tip of the iceberg in regard to quality talent at the event. My personal favorite performer brought in for the show was Drew Law, who performed spoken word as well as a heart-felt poem chronicling his relationship with an ex-lover. Even in lieu of that, it is extraordinary to witness the dexterity, which a group like Capital Funk must have in order to plan out a performance, as well as the bodily command it takes to execute the maneuvers performed by the team when the lights turn on and it is “show-time”.

This is Drew Law (@drewlawdmv) captured via iPhone. The real thing is much more sharp and prolific!

All in all, “CFunk” once again stunned the crowd, made even more incredible by that fact that a lot of the attendees, like me, had seen Capital Funk perform before. In fact, my favorite routine is the following one. I have probably watched this a dozen times (on top of seeing it like), start to finish. It just goes to show that it’s probably not possible to get sick of Capital Funk.