LastMinute Street Crew

Hi people ! It's a pleasure to see you again :)

It's been a busy week for me. I'm preparing class' musical drama, dance concepts for DBL competition, and also dance cover for my friend's birthday party.

Feeling so stressful at the moment ~

I do need rest ! :(

Anyway, blogging is one of my way to relieve my stress. B) *happy happy*

This time, I'm going to tell you informations about my country's top dance crew. Although the origin of hip hop comes from Africa-American people, Indonesian people had developed their ability to dance to hip hop, too.

What I'm going to discuss here is Last Minute Street Crew. 

With their basis on Surabaya, East Java, they become well-known for producing great arts, dancers, and achievements which become the representative for other dancers. Their members are not just teenagers, but also kiddos! One of the example is Brandon de Angelo, the participant in Indonesia Mencari Bakat, TransTV. Although he is still 8 or 9 years old, he is a great dancer. He can do either hip hop or breakdance. Of course Brandon's success is not separated from his own talent... and added up with the support of his friends in his dance crew.

They were established to break the MURI record for the longest hip hop performance, 150 minutes, on May 29, 2009 at SIBEC Convention Hall ITC Mega Grosir, Surabaya. The show with the theme MAGIC OF ART collected the numbers of two thousand people, enticing them to participate celebrating Surabaya's 716th birthday. Ferdi Jonas Hamdani, as the coordinator of the crew, hope that the hip hop dance will be more attractive for youngsters and the moral value can be effectively given to them. At that celebration, Brandon was given the tribute as the youngest hip hop dancer. The concept is about Semmy and Edo, unified bestfriend who have an honorable dance community in town. Semmy grew into a talented dancer, which made him arrogant, while Edo kept himself low-profiled. Edo had always been humble, and ready to help Semmy whenever he was needed. Until one day, there was an anarchist dance crew who asked Semmy doing the battle. His wounded ego made him show himself off. Edo wanted to prevent it, but it was no use. When the anarchist dance crew wanted to beat Semmy up, Edo protected Semmy and caused him fainted after being hit at some places.
Ferdi said that he was happy to be able presenting such fully-valued performance on the event. 

Two days ago, I'm having a kind of interview with Musa LMSC, the manager of the crew. Below, you can read the results of the interview! :D

How come was the Last Minute Street Crew made?

It is started in 23rd of March 2005. At that time, we want to participate in a competition at Tunjungan Plaza, Surabaya. We make this dance team (Semmy, Fer, Patrick), but since then, the team had grown to become like what it is now, approximately 25 members active.

Who is the leader of the crew?

Our leader is Semmy Blank. He once was a rapper from Malang, East Java. Formerly, he thought his vocation was to become a rapper. But one day he participated in a dance workshop in his community. Since then, he realized that his vocation is to become a dancer. 

What are the achievements achieved by Last Minute Street Crew? Can you please tell us some story about that?

Well, I can't tell that since we got too many stories, haha. Each competitions had its own impressions toward us, anyway. Since 2008, we have won many competitions. For example, 4 times National Champions Let's Dance, GlobalTV in a row, breaking the MURI Record for the longest hip hop performance... It is 150 minutes~ Yeah and... 5th place World Supremacy Battlegrounds Melbourne, Australia. 2nd place Code Edge 3 Asia Final 2010 Singapore. 1st place Juste Debout Singapore hip hop category, and many more! For more details, you can visit our homepage. *click on BLUEBLUEBLUE items*

It hasn't been updated though, but still you can see our efforts back then before the 2012. :)

Wow! You guys have wonderfully represented Indonesia abroad! :D By the way, what is your opinion about the real hip hop dancers?

In our opinion, the real hip hop dancers have always wanted to make efforts in order to grow better and better. They must be humble, too. The real hip hop dancers must be able to create new concepts, new arts, new choreographies... and NOT imitate others' creation.

Okay, I see. :) And how about your motto? And also please tell us your criticisms and suggestions for many dancers out there.

Our motto is : We are not the best, but we wanna do the best. We are nothing, but we wanna do something. We've been clinged onto this motto, so we're able to keep ourselves humble yet useful for others, especially for our country. Our suggestions... Hmm... Keep in spirit to develop the dance skills and the characters for the progress of Indonesia's dance art. Bottomline here : hip hop.

So that's it ! Hope that dancers who read it will be encouraged to learn more and dance more :) 

Here, I want to give you the videos of them during the competition on World Supremacy Battlegrounds Melbourne Australia 2011. The concept is similar to the performance on Blobby Nippon Paint Dance Competition. I want to put the Blobby video here, but it seems that Blogger rejecting me :(

Take a deep look ! ;)

I like it so much. :) The concept, the techniques, the power, it's just all perfect. Someday I hope I can learn directly from them ! What do you think about the dance?

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