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Enjoy this triple feature of videos from Slanguage’s three-month Engagement Party residency: Brutalism: A Dance Performance featuring Dub City Tribe, Dislexicon: A Word Performance, and Psychicinema Multiplex.
More videos after the jump…
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For our final installment of Engagement Party at MOCA, Slanguage presents “Brutalism: A Dance Performance” featuring the kids from Dub City Tribe.
The idea behind Dub City Tribe was started by 18 -year-old Natus Avila about eight months ago on a bus ride back home to Wilmington. Natus was already break-dancing with friends in and around the streets of Wilmington, but wanted to establish a tight crew. Naturally, the group of friends came together to become Dub City Tribe. This crew not only represents break-dancing, but also incorporates the elements of hip-hop and graffiti art.
Dub City Tribe has five core members which include: Natus Avila, 16-year-old Jupiter Saucedo aka Bionic, 16-year-old Rene Hernandez aka b-boy Remek, 18-year-old Robert White aka Coffee Bean, and the lovely 15-year-old Ali Diaz aka Vixen.
These teens use all elements when it comes to their break-dancing abilities. Music can be heard blasting from a radio or a live drum set creates a raw, musical environment for them to dance. Often times, a crowd of friends and strangers gather to watch and check out their skills. You can catch them on busy corners in Wilmington tearing it up on a mat or even a concrete dance floor. Regardless of where they dance, this crew represents the streets of Wilmington and elements of a real “brutal” dance-style.
Dub City Tribe represent!
Practicing at the Slanguage studio
Check out this video of the Dub City Tribe in action on the corner of Avalon and Anaheim in the city of Wilmington.
Don’t forget to watch them Thursday, Nov. 5th, 7-10pm
Peace,
Perl Rubio
If you missed ” Dislexicon” then you missed out on the short film ” Walking The Streets of Wilmington”. The film takes you on a brief history of industrial Wilmington, California and the people who live there.
More photos from Dislexicon after the jump…
Brutalism: A Dance Performance featuring Dub City Tribe
For the third installment of their three-month Engagement Party residency at MOCA, artist collective Slanguage presents Brutalism: A Dance Performance featuring Dub City Tribe. The performance will examine the implications of Brutalism, a mid-20th-century architectural style characterized by massive or monolithic forms, usually of poured concrete and typically unrelieved by exterior decoration, within the context of Southern California’s urban landscape. Through choreographed movement, the collective’s teen break-dancing group Dub City Tribe will play with the monumentality that is central to the Brutalist aesthetic, evoke the Brutalist architecture of Los Angeles and Wilmington, California (where Slanguage is based), and explore the consequences of the “concrete jungles” it has yielded. Slanguage DJs will spin genre-skipping sets to create a soundscape for the performance, collaborating dancers and musicians will also perform, and audience members will be encouraged to participate in a nonstop dance-a-thon–style competition.
For the second intervention of their three-month residency as part of MOCA’s Engagement Party program, Slanguage will present Dislexicon: A Word Performance. The term “Dislexicon” combines “dyslexia,” a learning disorder marked by an impaired capacity to interpret spatial relationships, often resulting in severe reading disabilities, with “lexicon,” an inventory of meaningful units in a language. True to its name, Slanguage, a portmanteau itself, will explore the idea of a visual lexicon and its poetics in relationship to text, spoken-word performances, music, and video, turning away from written word in favor of spoken (s)language. Through humor, poetry, text, video, and music, Dislexicon: A Word Performance will examine the many facets of growing up in Los Angeles, metaphorically traversing the urban landscape to mine both its comedic and tragic elements. The performance will feature poetic works by Slanguage members Karla Diaz and Raul “Spew” Vasquez.
Enjoy these images from Slanguage’s first Engagement Party event, and add your own pics here.
Dress your children in pastels…
dm
There are many different projects Slanguage team members work on behind the scenes daily. The creative heads at Slanguage are always on the move multitasking. The latest works include painting, set building, and costume designing/making for the upcoming Dislexicon performance. Here is a sneak peek at some members at work.
Awesome refinery back drop in progress by Marcus
More photos after the jump
We wanted to thank everyone for making Psychicinema Multiplex a wild success!! We laughed, we cried, we had our cards read while checking out everyone’s favorite made for TV movie, Helter Skelter. Check it! And remember, round two of Engagement Party will be hitting MOCA October 1st — Dyslexicon. Stay tuned for the details…
dm