1 YEP BLOG COMPETITION (2nd Question)

1 YEP BLOG COMPETITION (2nd Question)

Hi again dear readers!

Tonight we hav a new question for you.
If you wanna be able to win a ticket to the Workshop in Copenhagen/Denmark with the 
AMAZING S**t Kingz (JAPAN) or wanna win a Hip Drop Hoodie this is your chance.

Question of the day is to be found underneath this picture!

                                                                 S**t Kingz 

Question:

During Kallum´s last year of University he joined a "society" 

Which society was it?

1 YEP BLOG COMPETITION

1 YEP BLOG COMPETITION


In case you have been hiding under a rock.

YOU are able to win a ticket to the Workshop in Copenhagen/Denmark with the 
AMAZING S**t Kingz (JAPAN)

Date: October 8th
Time: 21:30-23:00
Place: AL DANS, Søborg Torv 13, 2860 Søborg

In case you are unable to be in Denmark and attend the workshop you will instead be able to win a super cool THE HIP DROP Hoodie, that we will send to you.
Perfect for the up-and-coming fall.


                                    A hoodie like this underneath....could be yours. Our beautiful
                                    models from left to right: Anthony Lee(and Geisha) Sofie Löken
                                    Bam Martin, David Lim and Jawn Ha.

HOW DO I WIN?
So this is how the competition will go down!
Everyday for the next 6 days there will be hidden questions in the blogs.
These questions needs to be answered in the blog section where you are able to comment.
The winner is the first person to get as much answers correct....first.
And the winner will be announced Friday October 4th at 20.00 Northern European Time.

For your comment to be valid you need to write your full name and e-mail address.

And what greater way to end this Sunday night by asking the first question!

WHO WAS THE FIRST TO BRING S**T KINGZ TO EUROPE?

Day 20 - September 27th 2013 (By Denice Solberg)

Day 20 - September 27th 2013 (By Denice Solberg)

Week 4 is over! 

I can’t believe 10 % of our year is already over. 

That just tells me it’s important to cherish every moment, because time flyes by so fast. 

Jazz and modern dance week had been just perfect for me. 

I love it so much, and its very nice to see that I remember quite alot from High school. 

Jenny Major and Martin SvaneBorg are two very good teachers and its gonna be exciting to have them for a whole other week too.

Today we started out with intense warm-up or shall I say work-out, with Lin! For an hour we were doing nothing but crunches and all of those small things that make you sweat like crazy! It was so heavy, but I loved it! 

Lin is a real machine, so it’s inspiring to have her in the front! 

Cant wait for my tummy to look like hers! Haha.

We had choreo with Lin where she challenged us to remember a choreo to Keysha Cole, that we learned two weeks ago. It went pretty well, a few blurry spots here and there. 

She gave us individual feedback on what to work on, which I love so much! 

Her purpose of the comments was to make us clean up our moves and style, so that we could be able to do her style the way she dances it, or the way she imagines her choreo. 

Sometimes it’s important to be able to copy. 

Some choreographers want dancers that are able to look all the same. 

So individual style is good, but being able to copy is also very important. 

Her comment to me was to extend my moves, which makes sense to me, because David Moore told me to take my time with every move, so I can kinda link them together.

Last but not least I have to mention that we filmed our first assignement today. After a teacher leaves we get an assignement linked to that teacher or the style of the teacher. And this time it was the ”David Moore assignement”. It has been a process I couldn’t be more happy about. It was stressful and fun at the same time. So many small discussions,  disagreements, tensions and frustrations....everything you can imagine on the bad and good side. 

But I am so happy that we had to experience all of this so early, cause thats how we learn to collaborate. 

Teamwork is a very important part of dancing. 

So each and everyone of us can learn how our position in the group can work in the most afficient way. Elina said this very well, so I want to mention it.

There are four things you can think of when your going to work in a team:

1.     Who is the leader.

2.     What possition do I have.

3.     How many are we.

4.     How much time do we have.

I have to say that I’m very excited to see how the video result will be like, because I think the choreo eneded up looking pretty good! 

The process of shooting it went really well and had we a lot of fun together. 

Lucile from France that lives with us, was supersweet and shot it for us. 

Stay tuned for the video here and on youtube!

Denice M Solberg 

Day 19 - September 26th 2013 (By Kallum Khaos)

Day 19 - September 26th 2013 (By Kallum Khaos)



Today Jenny Major was back up in the Hip Drop house to drop some knowledge bombs on the subject of Modern/Jazz.

The day started well, we were all well prepared and on the floor waiting for the lesson to start which wasn't lost on Jenny – she appreciated our enthusiasm and we all felt like we had stumbled upon a simple life-hack. I enjoyed the Modern technique, it focus's so much on energy and freedom of movement which is so essential even as a Hip Hop dancer. 
There was a moment where we were all rolling around of the floor, contact improvising, lifting and travelling and really committing to something that probably looked so alien on us.

Next was the lunch break...I have a strange thing where I can't eat sometimes (like seriously – my body wont let me – it's a long story) so the second half of the day was mentally and physically exhausting. 

We continued with Modern dance history and then moved on to Modern Jazz which is difficult enough even after a good meal. 
Jazz is new to me, and Jenny's advanced Jazz warm ups force you to either keep up or get left behind so I was trying my best to focus and not get frustrated with my body as it failed at executing the various technical sequences. 
After this we worked on a choreography piece which was really nice even though I wanted to collapse. The class did so well (myself not included haha) even though only a few of the group have prior Jazz experience – it's inspiring to dance beside them everyday and I think it's so noticeable that every member of the group feels the same.

    Jazz with Jenny Major from Sceneindgangen in Copenhagen/Denmark.


Next came our group assignment and like every shared project, problems arise, which isn't necessary a bad thing; it's natural. 
What is important is how we deal with the problems and move on – truth be told that stage is still a work in progress but I think we're functioning really well to say we've not known each other for a month yet and spend 90% of our waking day together. 
Tomorrow is the shoot day and we're almost prepared, just a few bits and pieces to pull together. 
Oh, and we have to edit the music still...it will be fine =) 

Don't forget to look out for it on Youtube in the coming weeks.

Until next time folks.

*I got rid of my catch phrase because Mantas made fun of me!* =P



Kallum Khaos

Day 18 - September 25th 2013 (By Anton Swerkström)

Day 18 - September 25th 2013 (By Anton Swerkström)

Second day with Martin Svaneborg from Denmark. 

And third day of jazz training. 

Do I dare to say Im kinda getting the hang of this? 

Although thats kinda with a capital ”K”. 

At least I´m getting INTO it :)

Day started similar to yesterday with technical jazz training. 

Martin is amazing at explaining moves and not only that but he knows the history of the move, which muscles to use, common mistakes one easily makes and with every question its like you get this bonus advice as well. 

It takes a lot of time but its because he has so many things to say and I feel like I can use everything he says to improve my dancing. 

We did a little bit more advanced stuff today (at least what I would call advanced, smoke coming out of my ears during class) which was cool that he preassures us to see how much we can manage.

After lunch he had a lecture about the mentallity and disciplin one should have as a dancer. 

Not because we had dissapointed him in these areas :-)  but just because he thought it was something every dancer should hear. 

So many good things were said during these 45 min, (will be looking at those notes before every time I go to an audition) some things that I kinda already knew but when they were pointed out I was like ”oh man, thats so true”.

I cant tell you everything he said here but I'll give you a tip of the day.

Whenever you are taking a class don't just go in there to TAKE a class. Be prepared to GIVE the teacher all you can offer, that goes for being in time, energy wise and focus wise. 

Then the class will become so much greater for everyone involved.

”When the student is ready, a master shall appear”

He told us about a dance teacher he had, someone he looked up to very much, his words exactly were ”I just got him”. 

Thats actually how I feel about Martin right now. 

Very inspiring and I´m learning A LOT. 

Glad we have another week with him, and maybe even more later during the education as well.

His second class we did choreo again. I dont know what it is but I feel kinda cool doing this theater stuff, I´m sure my classmates are laughing at me right now because I probably dont look as good as I feel :-)

Actually you can be the judge of that, check out the short videos we have up on instagram :-)

                       Martin Svaneborg & Jenny Major 

                       from "Sceneindgangen" in Denmark.

Last thing we did was working on our class assignment from last week. 

Im not sure if this is supposed to be a surprise but I´ll play it safe and not spoil anything :-)  

Keep an eye out sometime after this friday ;-)

PS: Shoutout to Marilena for having a dope class at The Hip Drop tonight! 

I´m up next week but will be hard to top this one   :-o

Man this was a lot of text... Oh well, thanks if you actually read it all :-) Until next time! 

Anton Swerkström

Day 17 - September 24th 2013 (By Elina Ayako)

Day 17 - September 24th 2013 (By Elina Ayako)


Hmm alright, Jazz and Musical…
Haven't taken any lessons before or really known what it is but let me tell you....IT IS FREAKING AWESOME! 

Today's teacher was Martin Svaneborg from Sceneindgangen in Denmark. 

Even though I haven't heard of him before, I for sure won't forget his name after today! 

He taught us some Jazz technique in the morning that consisted of a warm up routine and some across the floor exercises. 

After going through the warm up moves, somebody in the room (don't tell anyone but it was me) thought that this is soooo easy, 

I'm already a pro in this #Boss! 

But after Sir Svaneborg went into the details and explained every move for at least 5 minutes, it became more than clear that this is not only very difficult to execute correctly but also very exhausting - I love it! 

After a short lunch we continued with a Jazz History class, and some background on Bob Fosse's life. 

I felt like a door to a new world has opened to me, I could have listened to Martin for hours! 

Since Bob Fosse has had such a massive impact on the Musical scene, we just had to learn a part of one of his pieces; Chicago. 

We were all in character, it was so much fun to dance something we're totally not used to! 

And watching the boys dancing to a song with the lyrics "I'm gonna rough my knees and pull my stockings down" was definitely an experience.

                                                                      Bob Fosse 

                                                          June 1927-September 1987

Then we had some time to work on our David Moore assignment. 

We are working really well as a group, our vibe and connection to each other is one of a kind.. 

But maaan, collaborating with 8 people was challenging! 

In despite of some complications, we got up with a good end product so the day ended just as good as it has started!

Elina A. L. 

Day 16 - September 23rd 2013 (By Mantas Rimeikis)

Day 16 - September 23rd 2013 (By Mantas Rimeikis)

Today we got introduced to Jenny Major from Copenhagen and to Modern Jazz. 

All this was completely new for me, so it was difficult to move my body exactly how teacher wanted. 

I like it because I discovered new ways of moving my body and using my energy I think it is going to help me to know my body better.

We learned some history of modern dance too. It’s like a totally different world over there :D  

I am looking forward for these two weeks with Jazz teachers. Can’t wait to master some techniques which will help me improve a lot. 

 Oh and by the way me and Elina almost got kicked out of the class at the end of the day ‘cause we couldn’t stop laughing during partners relaxation session. We are just bad in being serious together :D

    Jenny Major from Sceneindgangen in Copenhagen

Mantas Rimeikis

Day 15 - September 20th 2013 (By Cecilia Tram)

Day 15 - September 20th 2013 (By Cecilia Tram)

Hey world! 

Today has been a nice calm day which we all needed after these wonderful weeks with David. 
Me, who have no background within the urban world have developed alot. 

It was fun to see how David works with the camera, and how he made everything seem so easy. 

Going from not knowing who he was , he has turned into one of my top notch persons, but I don't think that comes as a surprise  ;D 

And next week belive it or not we are going to have jazz and contemporary. 

Yaay! It's going to be interesting to see if I remember anything. 

To learn new stuff and be better on the old. 

I think this week my challenge would be to work on my confidence. 

Another step to my goal is to become beautiful, skinny and famous;) no, kidding but it is a step futher to become the best I can be. 

Love to you all♥ 

Cecilia Tram

Day 14 - September 19th 2013 (By Marilena Maouini)

Day 14 - September 19th  2013 (By Marilena Maouni)

Yesterday was freaking awesome we filmed TOM FORD and today we are filming the second half of the video DRAKE-HOLD ON WE’RE GOING HOME!

What a nice day! 

Super easy warm up from Lin and then straight to class with David. 

We cleaned the choreo, did formations/staging had our lunch and then it was video shoot time! #I_can_easily_get_used_to_having_the_same_day_over_and_over_again

I’ve spent so many hours watching dancing videos on youtube and I always wondered about the making process and now not only I get to see it, I get to experience it!

I am amazed by David’s talent cause in a couple of hours he had the whole video ready, and he did it on the spot! 

To be a great choreographer is one thing …but to be a great choreographer, a great teacher, a genius videographer and a sick editor is another!
#genius #how_much_experience_can_he_possibly_have

The video shoot is definitely the best experience so far , cause I never had it before and it would be almost impossible to experience it if it wasn’t the 1yep. 

My expectations for the education were high before I come here but this is beyond!!!! 

Even though it’s only the 3^rd week, I can tell that Lin and K are going to give us all the tools we’re going to need to enter the “professional danceworld”. 

It’s not only some intensive classes with some of the best dancers/choreographers in the world, it’s a real educational program well-thought and perfectly organised.

----------------------------------------dream list-----------------------------------

Dream no1-----Be part of 1yep.
Dream no2-----Do a cool professional video.
Dream no3-----Slap the camera to change direction in the cool professional video.
Dream no4-----Be friends with David.
Dream no5-----Dance with Justin/Beyonce.


I can cross out the first 4 !!! One to go !!#hahaha
#oh man! shooting is freaking awesome #thank you Lin and K #thank you David #thank you 1 yepers

Video Shoot Day Two with David Moore

Marilena Maouni

Day 13 - September 18th 2013 (By Anton Swerkström)

Day 13 - September 18th  2013 (By Anton Swerkström)


Video shoot time
Finally the day arrived and we got to shoot the first half of our video with David. 

Was so interesting to see how he worked and the whole process behind one of his projects. 
All morning went to cleaning and perfecting the choreo. 
Every finger had to be in the right place (there litterally was a move where we messed up with the fingers over and over ha ha)
Then he staged how we would dance it. 
Amazing how creative and fast David was with this, never seen anyone do it that easily before. 

Towards lunch we had some time to ”fix ourselfs up”, didnt really know what to do with this time... put some extra gel in my hair and it looked exactly the same
The girls looked great though!
And of course since we live in Sweden the weather had to mess with us and it started pouring down right when we were gonna shoot. 
But perhaps it was destiny because the spot we found instead, the skate park Bryggeriet, was really cool. 
Although this gave us less time to actually film since we were not aloud in right away. 
Instead we could finish polishing the choreo but it felt really good so we just chilled a little talking to David about how he thought while doing this. 
Since we now had less time I was a little nervous but once again David Moore stepped in and started being awesome. 
He looked around the skate park for what seemed like 15 seconds and then just said ”Ok, lets go”. Picked the spot we would dance and we each got our own quick intro shot as well (you will see what I mean when the video is released. 
Before we knew it he said ”Ok, I think we are done”.
When we were done shooting we got to see it on Davids camera. 
Even though it was the smallest screen ever it still looked dope. 
SOOO excited to see the real deal. 
But first we have to nail the second half tomorrow as well

Anton Swerkström 

Day 13 - September 18th 2013 (By Elin Karabuda)

Day 13 -  September 18th 2013 (By Elin Karabuda)

HELLOOOOO! J I’m good. How are you? Ok.

This day I will always remember. We actually got to be a part of David’s video!:O 

It’s so unreal and I feel so spoiled lol J

Today we filmed the first part of his video, to the song Tom Ford. 

We were at a skatepark close to our studio. 

First time shooting a professional video and first time at a skatepark. Awesome!

To se an artist in work was a huge experience and I feel like I learned a lot from watching his process. Whenever there was need for any change or improvement he simply thought for a minute and then started to give determined directions that always worked out perfectly. 

He told us, that to make his mind work this fast, he for example makes up 2 whole choreos each day just to develop the capacity of his brain. 

This was a good motivation I think. 

A living example of hard work paying off!

Bye little blog!

Elin Karabuda