PRESSPRESS KITKIT Move It Mob Style® is a positive and high energy TV show that proudly showcases young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s culture through dance and music, all the while instilling in the audience health information and the desire to lead a healthy drug free lifestyle. 2 Contents Series Overview 3 About the Production Company 7 Episode Synopses 9 Hosts 16 Dancers 17 Performers, Bands & Music 18 Move It Mob Style® Crew 21 Rockhampton, QLD 3 Series Overview Move It Mob Style® is a 20 episode Move It Mob Style® has been is a combination of different dance x 30 minute dance-based youth, produced with support from the styles choreographed by the local health and fitness television series. Australian Government, through talent. Exercises and dance moves Showcasing Aboriginal and Torres the Department of Health and are repeated in each of the three Strait Islander music across the Ageing, Office for Aboriginal tracks, to give the audience a range of genres including hip and Torres Strait Islander Health. chance to learn combinations. hop and popular, Move It Mob It sits proudly alongside, and is Scattered between these dance Style® is all about good beats: integrated with, the full suite routines, and linked by our studio using dance to stay happy and of Vibe products including a hosts, are pre-recorded short health healthy. Shot on location in nationally syndicated radio and culture stories. It is designed the many beautiful and varied show, Deadly Sounds, a national to cater to all standards of dance places we live, Move It Mob Style® music and sport magazine, proficiency. Young people can showcases the deadly dance Deadly Vibe, and the Vibe events: watch, and dance along to the moves found in communities all Vibe Alive, Vibe 3on3®, and The music, or each routine can be around Australia. Led by young Deadlys. Please find attached broken down by a dance teacher people, Move It Mob Style® gets a more detailed briefing on and tutored step by step. the whole community up and the Vibe media products. moving, while listening to some The focus of the program of the best Aboriginal and Torres is a dance workout, with three Strait Islander music on offer. routines per episode. The routine Berry Springs, NT KEL CONNOR PHOTOGRAPHY KEL CONNOR 4 From one episode to the next, different moves are collected from the featured communities and taught to viewers, creating a Move It Mob Style® ‘movement vocabulary’. Over the Move It Mob Style® journey, Health issue spotlight we learn to ‘accelerate’, go ‘fishing The entire show is a health and for barra’, ‘shrug them haters youth lifestyle program that off’ and ‘reach for the stars’. It’s aims to have not only a positive important to know each routine impact on young Indigenous is actually choreographed by the people’s self-esteem, but young people in the community also their primary health. visited, then performed by them There are short spotlights on key and our professional dancers. community health issues told The series includes on location through interesting characters. and pre-recorded segments: The topics are a range of physical, social, emotional and mental health issues including: • Traditional language, food, dancing, hunting and gathering • Youth and community health and wellbeing projects • Oral health • Fitness workshops, including boxing, bastketball and breakdancing • Healthy foods • Strength through culture and art Community & local • Maternal health dancers’ introduction • Breakfast club. This segment precedes each There are also discrete routine, and is a quick introduction health vignettes. to the community, through the eyes of its young dancers. It shows the visuals of the dancers and the community we are filming in – establishing a sense of place. It’s also a chance for each dancer to bust out their signature move. Redfern, NSW KEL CONNOR PHOTOGRAPHY KEL CONNOR 5 Culture spotlight Move It Mob Style® is one of Studio hosts Move It Mob Style® believes that the the only mechanisms to promote Upbeat personalities Naomi appreciation and understanding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Wenitong (The Last Kinection) of culture is a cornerstone to good Islander music and is already much and Shannon Williams (MC social, emotional and physical supported by Aboriginal and Brothablack) link together the health in our young people. Each Torres Strait Islander musicians dance tracks and pre-recorded episode contains a short segment around the country. location segments of Move It Mob exploring the cultural pursuits Style® from our studio. These two of a particular community, and Free-style (during have established music careers as seeing how culture benefits the credits) recording and performing artists, community. Dancers we have seen in a and are well known and much particular episode bust out admired by young Aboriginal Food their best moves for us, free- and Torres Strait Islander ® A segment focusing on catching, styling to the Move It Mob Style people around the country. gathering, preparing, cooking soundtrack. This is a ‘crazy’ section and eating healthy food. This of the show, and a lot of fun. Dance hosts & local segment has a strong emphasis on Each week Move It Mob guest hosts traditional bush tucker as well. Style® is co- hosted by fit, young, In each location, trained dancers Indigenous presenters; our studio Albert David, Ghenoa Gela, Sani Musician /band profile hosts, the travelling Move It Mob Townson and Medika Thorpe This package introduces the Style® host and a local guest host work with a local host to guide musician(s) who created one of in each of the communities. Move the audience at home through the local tracks featured in that It Mob Style® aims to put in front the different routines. They are episode. Over the series Move It of our audience Indigenous role much acclaimed dancers in their Mob Style® profiles 16 models who are strong, happy, own right, and happy to muck-up different Aboriginal proud and healthy – not only for every now and then – keeping the and Torres Strait the young Indigenous viewing instruction fun. They are warm, Islander groups, audience, but for all Australians. engaging … and mad dancers. and ALL the music in the show is created by Indigenous Studio hosts Brothablack and Naomi Wenitong artists. We dance to over 60 original tracks by artists such as the Street Warriors, Briggs, Maupower, Stunna Set, The Yung Warriors, Dubmarine and The Last Kinection. KEL CONNOR PHOTOGRAPHY KEL CONNOR 6 Dancing in the Move It Mob Style® has been Australian locations. All the hosts use community mainly shot outdoors, in iconic inclusive Indigenous slang and often Move It Mob Style® visited 16 locations including waterfalls drop words in the local language. communities across Australia outside Katherine, a barge on the There is an emphasis on youth during its filming including: Murray River, the Spiegeltent in culture, urban music (with traditional • Liverpool, NSW Melbourne, the Sydney Opera elements) and deadly dance moves. ® • Murray Bridge, SA House and on the beach at Move It Mob Style worked hand • Wreck Bay, ACT Wreck Bay. The dance area is in hand with local Aboriginal • Melbourne, VIC defined by the black & white communities to follow local • Brisbane, QLD break dancing surface that protocols and seek permission ® • Berry Springs, NT travels with Move It Mob Style . to film and dance on country. ® • Redfern/The Block, NSW Move It Mob Style has an urban, • Adelaide, SA hip hop aesthetic in its graphics and • Katherine, NT editing style, but is shot in uniquely • Bendigo, VIC • Sydney/Bennelong Point, NSW • Rockhampton, QLD • Darwin, NT • Cockatoo Island, NSW • Gladstone, QLD • Redfern/Carriageworks, NSW KEL CONNOR PHOTOGRAPHY KEL CONNOR 7 About the Production We understand the manifold Company: health challenges facing Aboriginal Vibe Australia Pty Ltd (Vibe) and Torres Strait Islander people. is an Aboriginal media and Indigenous Australians have events company with a suite of higher rates of chronic disease fully integrated communication than the non-Indigenous products much utilised population, as well as a lower and enjoyed by Aboriginal life expectancy. This problem is and Torres Strait Islander compounded by a number of communities across Australia. issues, including the poor overall All our products and events state of health that is prevalent convey the importance of leading in the Indigenous community. a healthy lifestyle without the use Aboriginal and Torres Strait of drugs or excessive Islander people face a number consumption of of other health challenges, such alcohol. We promote as high maternal and infant a smoke free lifestyle. rates of mortality and morbidity, Vibe has low birth-weight babies, third- been working world rates of infectious disease at the forefront and substance abuse. of Aboriginal Vibe Australia believes that communications self-esteem and pride in cultural in the public and heritage is central to the desire to private sectors for strive for good physical, social and more than 17 years, specialising in emotional health. Vibe Australia has the areas of health, employment, been working with communities in training, cultural delivering projects and programs awareness, the arts that address self-esteem and and sport. pride, as well as physical and social health. KEL CONNOR PHOTOGRAPHY KEL CONNOR 8 Other issues that affect the state of health in the Indigenous community include: • socioeconomic factors, such as low levels of employment – making the cost of health care less affordable; • the remote location of many Indigenous communities Breakfast club – making access to health services and information more difficult; and through trustworthy and Our vision, in partnership with • language barriers and lower engaging products. the Australian Government through levels of literacy – making We also encourage the the Department of Health and it harder for Indigenous completion of a full secondary Ageing and the Office for Aboriginal people to access and education, and are committed and Torres Strait Islander Health, is understand information.