Groove returns this year with qualifiers in Australia, NZ and Asia. We’ll be providing coverage and results so be sure to keep checking back!
Groove Eliminations Nationally
July 11 – Melbourne 1
July 11- Brisbane
July 18 – Adelaide
July 25 – Cairns
August 15 – Canberra
August 22 – Melbourne 2
August 30 – Perth
September – NZ & Asia
GROOVE MELBOURNE 1
Date: July 11, August 22
Time: 5pm
Place: Camberwell Civic Centre, 340 Camberwell Road,
Cost: $25 prepaid, $35 door
Contact: iris@hoopdreamz.com.au, 0420 816 100
JUNIOR RANKINGS:
1st Urban Force Juniors (Qualifies to Battlegrounds 2009)
2nd Unda-size
3rd Sub Zero
4th Urban Force Kids
5th Funk-a-licious
OPEN RANKINGS:
1st B-Kode (Qualifies to Battlegrounds 2009)
2nd Alpha Delinkwentz (Qualifies to Battlegrounds 2009)
3rd MDX
4th Bounczn Dance Crew
5th Tantrumm
GROOVE ADELAIDE
Date: Saturday 18th July
Results:
(1) Flava (Open overall winner)
(2) TC Funk (Varsity overall winner)
(3) Incognito (Open 2nd place)
(4) Unleashed (Varsity 2nd place)
(5) One 50 Dance Crew (Open)
(6) C Crew (Varsity)
(7) Dynamite (Varsity)
(8) Envyus (Varsity)
GROOVE CAIRNS
Date: Saturday 25th July
Time: Doors open 4PM, Show starts 5:30
Place: Cairns State High School – Crosswell Hall, Cnr Sheridan & Upward Streets , Cairns
Cost: Presale $18.00 / $20 door
Contact: 0432618697, grooveqld@gmail.com
GROOVE ACT:
Date: 15th August
Time: TBA
Place: Vikings Auditorium, Richard St, Wanniassa, Erindale
Cost: Presale $20 / $25 door
Contact: 0400 911 714, melissa.twidale@melink.com.au
GROOVE MELBOURNE 2
Date: August 22
Time: 5pm
Place: Camberwell Civic Centre, 340 Camberwell Road,
Cost: $25 prepaid, $35 door
Contact: iris@hoopdreamz.com.au, 0420 816 100
Varsity rankings
1 Superhoodz
2 Destruct
3 Hood Dreams
4 Ellusive
5 Urban Force Seniors
6 Childs play
7 Psykodic
Open rankings
1 Detour
2 DVP
3 Hollabak
4 Remorse
5 The Dream
6 X-cape
7 Platinum
8 Ice
9 Vsquad
10 Jigsaw Sneakers
11 Mute
VARSITY DIVISION:
Baby I.C.E.
Child’s Play
Destruct
Ellusive
Hood Dreams
Psykodic
Sublime
Superhoodz
Urban Force Seniors
OPEN DIVISION:
Detour
DVP
Hollabak
I.C.E.
Mute
Platinum (PDC)
Remorse Crew
The Dream
Vsquad
Xcape
GROOVE NSW:
Date: Sunday 23rd August 09.
Time: 2-7pm.
Place: Castle Hill RSL, NSW.
Contact: groovehills@gmail.com
More info to follow
GROOVE PERTH:
Date: Sunday 30th August
Time: 1-7pm
Place: TBC
Contact: mark@hoopdreamz.com.au
More info to follow
GROOVE NZ: September/October 2009
Auckland
Wellington
Hamilton
More details to follow
For info: mark@hoopdreamz.com.au
GROOVE Philippines: September 2009
Eliminations:
Luzon
Visayas
Mindanao
NCR/Calabarzon
Philippines Finals:
Manila
For info: mark@hoopdreamz.com.au
Cairns: GROOVETV.COM.AU & HOOPDREAMZ PROUDLY PRESENTS GROOVE CAIRNS Hip Hop Dance Championship 2009 Battle of Queensland - R&B Hip Hop Breakdance Krump Street Funk Saturday 25th July, 2009 All Ages Event @ Cairns State High School - Crosswell Hall Cnr Sheridan & Upward Streets , Cairns Doors open 4PM, Show starts 5:30 Presale Tickets: $18.00 // $20 door Bookings: 0432618697 Email: grooveqld@gmail.com Groove ACT: Attached poster with full details GROOVE NSW: CASTLE HILL RSL, NSW. Sunday 23rd August 09. 2pm till 7pm. groovehills@gmail.com More details to follow GROOVE Perth 2009: Sunday August 30th Venue:TBC Time: 1pm-7pm More info to follow Queries: mark@hoopdreamz.com.au GROOVE NZ: September/October 2009 Auckland Wellington Hamilton More details to follow For info: mark@hoopdreamz.com.au GROOVE Philippines: September 2009 Eliminations: Luzon Visayas Mindanao NCR/Calabarzon Finals: Manila For info: mark@hoopdreamz.com.au
Hey Drumstick, awesome bro! I’ll see if I can send you the details myself instead coz Erick is busy with organizing NZ and all the other heats… thanks again mate!!
I’m not a dancer but I’ve been to many Groove events in Melbourne. What I hate the most is waiting outside in line just to be cheated by people cutting in in front of me.
This is always what happens. They may say doors open at 5pm. We’re there say at 4:30pm but by 5:30pm the door is still not open. By that time, it’s all chaos in the line. So many people who came late will see their friends at the front, talk to them and next thing you know, they’re not going back to the back of the line. Presto! They’ve just cut in front of the line by 20 people.
So please organisers. Stick to your schedule. 5pm is 5pm!
It might also help to put barriers in the line so the queue won’t look like riot crowds.
I don’t think Groove has a good track record of running their events on schedule.
God 25 bux deal with it. buy a ticket if u wanna support the dance community, dont if u dont want to. simple. groove have always done all they can to provide their best for the dancers and their shows are the only ones that are well organised. if u hold a grudge against their oganisation fair enough, but its pretty much ure loss. just stop putting them down for their great efforts and i wish they continue to in future becuase its the only comp ive done for 5 yrs and its helped me progress as a dancer. It also gives the new crews out there a big opportunity to get ito dance as well as having the best dance crews compete. Keep upthe good work guys.
Groove heat one crews
- Bounczn Dance Crew
- MDX
- Urban Force Juniors
- Urban Force Kids
- Bkode
- Alpha Delinkwentz
- Funk-a-licious
- Tantrumm
- Unda-Size
- SubZero
Thanks for the updat cheeseburger! Which of those crews are juniors?
in reply to dancers opinion
Wow I cannot believe I am writing in a forum……
To all of the people who support hiphop in dance/song know from someone who has put their money up to try and help make a difference and give opportunity to performers.
It is not cheap…. If you had to put a dollar value on all the time and money spent to bring an event together you would not be upset with the price that organisers are charging.
You do not need to enter or even go, but respect that they are doing what they believe will make a difference.
My hat goes off to those who continue to do their best to give our great young performers a stage…..
Hoopdreamz,Raw, UEG……AND MANY MORE….
Though I have moved on, I CONTINUE to promote and tell anyone who will listen how proud and honoured I was to of been given the opportunity to be apart of giving young people a stage……
I once heard people mock hiphop dancers and say OHH THAT THING……It inspired and angered me to shove it up there ar*#*s and prove that people not from the scene would want to go and watch and enjoy the performances on stage….(hence SHAKEDOWN).
Your opinions are your own….but ensure you know it costs far more then you realise and that they are not ripping you off.
In 20 years from now…HOW DO YOU WISH TO SEE THE SCENE????
No one watching??? or People Applauding???
I wish all of you the best……
Someone do a stage musical please xxxooo I would love to see a hiphop stage musical…..
Just in regards to hip hop stage musicals: We had Break! from the US come down, but that flopped.
Wickid Force have done some amazing things with their own stage musical, and Cypher Sapiens (Lamaroc, Enigma, Andre) are doing their own touring show soon.
In terms of large scale productions, this is a step in the right direction: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2Rd7Cpx-Ss < --WATCH IT!!!
‘In The Heights’ won the 2008 Tony Award for best musical. It’s not strictly hip hop but it’s very close and it offers a glimpse of just how inspiring hip hop theatre can be!! This along with other recent musicals have shown a trend towards more modern and contemporary issues so I have no doubt it’s only a few years away before hip hop musicals are the norm.
MELBOURNE BREAKS….WAS Fantastic and is still travelling……Arch and Wickid Force put on a good show with minimal budget….
Touches on some real issues.
Those who have not seen it, should be heading to country VIC.
BTW…HEY GEOFF!!!!!!
To “mitel”, thanks for your feedback… will definitely get our security guys to organize the queues better…
we can only improve on what you guys give feedback to…
we understand that organizing the queues is important because we know we have kids and parents lining up also…
but understand as well that we CANNOT control everything, especially people who ‘push-in’ up the queues…
just letting you know though that we have full support of the local police across the road from the venue so our patrons
should feel safe and secure…
we will definitely try harder to make sure the show starts on time…
keep them feedbacks coming yo!
- Oliver