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Join B-boy and Hip Hop dancer Ken Fury from New York in 12 days of pure Hip Hop from the USA!
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Ken Fury, originally from Colorado, moved to New York City in 2005 and began working in theater and as a street performer, while simultaneously traveling abroad to compete and judge in break dance competitions.  He has won over thirty of the top dance competitions and has had the honor to judge some of the largest dance events worldwide. He has choreographed for and performed in films and commercials including, Starburst, Toshiba, I love New York, Blender's Pride, K-Swiss and many other independent projects.
  
As an educator, he has worked in dance studios and schools in his community along with working as an adjunct professor teaching dance and movement at New York University's TISH School of the Arts in the Experimental Theatre Wing. He has also taught at the Seoul Institute of the Arts in South Korea and has worked as a cultural ambassador with the University of North Carolina and the U.S. Department of State's program Next Level, where he traveled to Zimbabwe, Africa using art and dance as a tool for conflict prevention, cultural exchange and teaching entrepreneurship skills.


About the Program

​Join B-boy and Hip Hop dancer Ken Fury from New York in 12 days of pure Hip Hop from the USA!

Ken Fury is coming from New York City to get ASEAN dancing! This is a dance program for ASEAN’s Hip Hop dance crews, B-Boys, B-Girls. Poppers and Lockers and solo dancers. Participants from age 18 to 24 will be chosen for the program based on their talent, motivation and potential. Students younger than 18 (provided they have housing and transportation in Jakarta) and over 24 may be accepted on a case by case basis.

Under the leadership of Ken, you will also participate in one large group choreography with the Broadway performers of the YES Academy as well as in ASEAN Cabaret performances where you will combine elements of your national culture with hip hop dance.
Each day will be spent on technique, choreography, personal style development, and learning new Street Dance genres such as breaking, rocking, experimental movement, house, voguing, whacking and jazz.
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The program will run from 10am to 6pm daily from August 1 to 12.  Please plan on evening dress rehearsals on August 10 and 11 and on final performance on August 12.

Students will be selected for the program based on their talent, motivation and potential.  Up to two teachers may be selected for our Teacher Training program and they will function as rehearsal assistants.

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Hip Hop/Break Dance Sample Schedule

10:00 – 11:30               Warm-up and Technique Class

11:30 – 11:45               Break

11:45 – 12:30               Introduction to New Styles and Techniques: Ballet, House, Break Dancing, Voguing, Boogaloo, etc

12:30 – 13:30               Choreography Class

13:30 – 14:30               Lunch

14:30 – 16:00               Choreography and Staging

16:00 – 16:30               Break

16:30 – 18:00               Group Rehearsals with Broadway

Evening: Optional free-styling, solo coaching with faculty
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    • YES Academy ASEAN >
      • Programs >
        • Broadway Musical Theater
        • Hip Hop Lyricism, Performance and Music Production
        • Hip Hop/Break Dance
        • Singer/Songwriters
      • Faculty Bios
    • YES Academy 2015
    • YES Academy ASEAN 2015 >
      • Gala Concert Photos
      • Gala Concert Video Clips
    • YES Academy Lebanon 2015 >
      • Concert Photos
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