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Dancers, did you know DANCE IS COPYRIGHTABLE?
Well, a workshop was held recently on October 21-22 at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts in Kingston, Jamaica to inform dancers, dance companies and choreographers about how to copyright their work. Top dance lecturers and choreographers such as L'acadco's L'Antoinette Stines and Neila Ebanks were in attendance.

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DHQ Amzone from France is currently promoting her dance move called "OVASEAZ."

She has taken it to another level with a dancehall riddim that she co-produced with Hemp Higher (Riga). The riddim also called "Overseaz" features artistes from around the world (Jamaica, France, Canada, Germany, England and Australia) such as:

DanceJa would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for the wonderful work you have done in 2010 to uplift the art of dancehall dancing. Now that the year is almost complete, it is important that we recognize persons who have contributed significantly to this phenominal cultural expression.
We, therefore decided to analyse the dancehall dance arena in Jamaica in order to determine suitable nomin...

Taheera was nominated Favorite Female dancer for the Youth View Awards 2010 alongside Mystic and Mad Michelle.

In 2008, after attaining the title of Ms. Ardenne , one of the competition’s judges was thoroughly impressed by Tam’s personality and talent ,this judge was Karen Clarke , the producer of the newest ‘ Young , hot and hype’ award show in Jamaica. Taheera was approached by Ms. Clarke to perform on the second staging of the show along with one of Jamaica’s finest dance forces ‘Shady Squad’. Needless to say they gave a star-studded performance that sky rocketed Etienne Tiffaniqué’s dance career to an all new high. At t...

Maria Hitchins one of Jamaica's top Dancer/Choreographer is currently pursuing a Master of Philosophy Thesis in Cultural Studies at U.W.I., researching socio-cultural influences of Jamaican street dancers on their communities. She did a very enlightening presentation at UWI's Research Day on Thurs January 27, 2011 and DanceJa was there to give her support.

Her paper was titled: "FROM NOBODY’S CHILD TO EVERYBODY’S PICKNEY: THE ‘(IN)-VISIBILITY’ OF JAMAICAN STREET DANCERS."

This concerns the liminal/in between stage that the dancers presently occupy, with ‘(in)-visibility’ representing opposing dualities of positive ...

Jamaica's top dance group Dance Xpressionz celebrated their 10 Year Anniversary as a dance theatre group that entertains and teaches different genres of dance in Jamaica. The celebration took place at their 4th staging of "Dancers Boom" Graduation/Award Show (Sponsored by Boom, Wysinco and Mothers) held at the Ranny Williams Centre in Kingston on 21 May 2011. The concert was well supported by Dancehall Artistes such as Elephant Man, Mr. Lexx, Chosen, True Diva, Juggla, Keida, G Whizz and Left Side who performed tremendously to bring that extra vibe to...

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Dance Playground Workshop
Stacia Fya's Dancehall Workshop "Dance Playground" with Blouckout Crews' Stud...
Cosmic & Phoenix Perform @ Library Fair
Andre and Phoenix of Elite Team performs at the Jamaica Library Service, Nati...
Sri-Lanka
Sri Lanka on set Shifta's Music Video Shoot for "Rude Boy" Produced by Frass ...
Waist Haffi Move
Nina, Latonya Style and Miss Relli endorsing Dance Move "Waist Haffi Move" by...
SWAY (Part 2)
Blackout Twinz endorsing their dance move Sway, created by Binta Blackout.
Swedish Dancers -
Double Trouble Ladies Melpo and Franci (Swedish Dancers) on set Ovamarz - "No...
Dancers build the vibes outside Lime Light Club after Hot Mondays May 2, 2011...
DANCERS
Kim Weezy [First Class]
Kimberly "Weezy" Hyman student at the Edna Manley College of Performing Arts ...
Elite Team
New on the Dancehall Scene is Elite Team, hailing from the Rockfort Community...
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