Every Thursday ISSUE 232 RS 40 7 AUGUST 2014 22 >fj)f 2071 The Smarter Entertainment Weekly Two years since the mural revolution, we get into the heart of it and review where street art is now, and if it is even “art” in the fi rst place. Newsfeed k ckstart TOP 3 EVENTS PHOTOJOURNALISM UNTIED WOMEN NOW! Date: 1! August to 14 August, Venue: Cafe Date: 1 August to 7 August., & Shop Mitini, Contact: 4002070 Venue: New Baneshwor, ADOBE LIGHTROOM WORKSHOP Date: 5 August to 9 August, Time: 7am to 9am Café Mitini Gallery’s Untied Women will Kathmandu. Venue: The Image Park, New Road, Contact: 9841279544 / 9841240341, Entry: Rs.2500 portray the stories of women who were Voice to Express announces a workshop called Telling The Image Park presents a fi ve-day intensive Adobe previously residing in unfavorable economic Lightroom workshop that will focus on total workfl ow for a Stories; Photojournalism Now, professional edge. During the workshop, participants will and social conditions. 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Listings are SAID11% YES SAID NO free but inclusion is not guaranteed due to limited space. 73% OUT OF 56 With events to the left and right, Fr!day makes it a little bit easier for you This survey was conducted among 56 individuals, aged 16-25, residing in Kathmandu to choose events for this week and the next. Here are out top three picks. Kickstart//Get Started 6 AT A GLANCE What: Everest Crew Annual Jam 2014 Who: Everest Crew FACTS Where: St. Xavier’s School, Jawalakhel, Lalitpur 1 When: 10 August (Sunday) B-Boying originated Time: 11am onwards among African- American and Puerto Price: Rs.250 (for boys) and Rs.150 (for girls) Rican youth in New York in the early 1970s. performing live sets. 2 e venue will also have a stall selling recycled materials and accessories. A t-shirt Although stall will be close by, with prints of various Step Up! widespread, the term “breakdancing” is street designs, snap backs, badges, stickers Gravity will be defied and acrobatic moves will be looked down upon related to B-Boying and hip-hop, and other by those immersed items, accessories and street wears. showcased on stage as the auditorium at St. Xavier’s in hip-hop culture. Purists consider School hosts the annual celebration of one of the most “breakdancing” an THEN AND NOW popular modern dance forms, B-Boying. ignorant term invented e Jam started three years ago with 12 crews by the media. in a hall that had 50 people. e organizers SAMYAM SHRESTHA are proud to share that they expect more than 2,000 people this time. “B-Boying in Nepal has seen a dramatic increase in following IN NUMBERS For newbies, it may look like half gymnastics 2008. Dance schools then increasingly began over the past few years. People used to call and half martial arts. B-Boying (or to incorporate this form in their curriculums. it ‘monkey dance’ before, and viewed us as “breakdancing” as used colloquially) is a Everest Crew, Doomsquad, and Monkey hooligans,” says Nishant Gauchan, senior dance form that involves tons of dexterity, Guys, among others, soon became prominent 42 member of Everest Crew. “ings have style, and exibility. With roots going back names in Kathmandu’s sprouting breakdance Total no. of crews changed now. People admire our talent and to 1970s Bronx (New York), it wasn’t long scene. participating get staggered when they see us ying high before it branched out across the world. In e auditorium of St. Xavier’s School, and doing power-moves.” Organizers of Nepal, with the advent of contemporary Jawalakhel will bear a resemblance to the dierent events are also showing an interest Western dance styles, B-Boying gratied streets of New York when B-Boying in B-Boying and are giving the dance form a has managed to capture a lot squads from Nepal and beyond will share 36 platform. Furthermore, advertisements and from Nepal of admirers in the past their passion in the fourth edition of the music videos have provided it a space as well. decade or so. e rst Everest Crew Annual Jam. In the previous “But again, B-Boying in Kathmandu is ever B-Boying contest three years, the event was known as 2-on- limited to very specic places. We still lack in the country was 2 Boy Battle, Battle Warriors, and Battle 22 enough shows in which artists can exhibit held at United Warriors II respectively. Now with its largest from Kathmandu their talents,” says Gauchan, “erefore, the World Trade roster yet, the Jam will feature 48 crews in primary objective of this annual event is Centre in total – 42 from Nepal, ve from India, and to give a platform to the B-Boying artists – one from Dubai exhibiting their skills. 5 both novices and experts alike.” Originally from India intended as a hip-hop concert with some THE BATTLES AND THE CREWS B-Boying acts, the organizers soon decided to e performances are divided into two put B-Boying at the center. categories: three-on-three and Seven 2 Smoke. e slogan of the show says, “Say no to In three-on-three, two crews of three face 1 drugs. Say no to violence. Say yes to green o against each from Dubai energy and recycling,” as the event perseveres other, whereas in to acknowledge Barry ‘Griz’ Rabkin’s saying: Seven 2 Smoke, “You’re never going to change street dance as seven individual ABOUT THE much as it’s going to change you.” B-Boys/B-Girls compete to ORGANIZERS Call 9841465929 for queries. attain the highest number of points Everest Crew was to win. People willing to demonstrate their formed in 2009 as a KNOW YOUR MOVES convergence of a few B-Boying skills can register at the venue other B-Boying crews ere are many dierent individual styles for the Seven 2 Smoke battle. and now comprises of used in B-Boying. Individual styles oen e winner will be awarded a nine ardent B-Boys. stem from a dancer’s region of origin Rs.10,000 cash prize and other They started their B-Boying career from and inuences. Although there are some fabulous gi hampers. However, Nepal Break Dance generalities in the existing styles, many the registration for the three- Foundation (NBF) dancers combine elements of dierent styles on-three battle has already been and were taught by with their own ideas and knowledge in closed. e winning crew in the Thai B-Boys in the initial days. They order to create a unique style of their own. three-on-three battle will receive a have been to Thailand Although this dance is not mood specic, Rs.25,000 cash prize. Complementing the thrice since then it banks on aggression. Four basic elements battles will be music by DJ Able. to participate in form the foundation of breaking. e rst the Seacon Street Challenge 2009, and is Toprock, a term referring to the upright OTHER ACTIVITIES Battle of the Year dancing and shues.