Hey Y'all!
While G Dubs is normally billed as the university that is four blocks from the White House with powerful political speakers on campus every week, it's always a nice reminder our students represent so much more than that.
One of my good friends from New Jersey, Asthaa, who is in the Elliott School of International Affairs with a concentration in Development performed in and also choregraphed for the GW Balance end of the year show. GW Balance is a student organization dedicated to ballet. Beyond their normal programming they put on two larger shows, one at the end of the Fall semester (this past year Balance performed the Nutcracker) and one at the end of the Spring semester. My friend Asthaa helped put on this end of the year performance titled "Viva la Danza".
We all have our academic responsibilites, especially now during Finals time but it's great to take a break from the studying and paper writing to sit down and appreciate the talents of fellow students. It serves as a nice reminder that GW students do more than just go to school.
All the best,
Oscar
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Sunday, May 6, 2012
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.
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”.
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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.
On the dance floor, in the
classroom, on the court or field, I encourage you to “get it”, future Colonials
(just like CFunk)!
STAY SPIRITED,
Matt
P.S. I would encourage you to spend
some time looking up Capital Funk. You will not regret it.
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