UQ Street Groove is all about bringing hip-hop / urban dance community & culture to life on campus and bringing university dancers at UQ to the rest of Brisbane and the world.
We run 8 hours of dance classes every Sunday at Metro Arts, Level 4 / 109 Edward St, Brisbane City QLD 4001, from 12-8pm! Classes run 4 Aug – 27 Oct this semester (12 weeks).
12PM – Hip-Hop
1PM – Beginner Choreography
2PM – Locking
3PM – Beginner Choreography
4PM – Popping
5PM – Waacking
6PM – Intermediate-Advanced Choreography
7PM – House
You can come for any classes or combination of classes that you like, any time through the semester – all included in your membership joining fee ($35 for UQ students, $45 for open public). You don’t have to attend every week, but we encourage regular attendance and practice at home to improve the foundations, technique and performance of the styles you are learning!
We also organise some big annual events (on-and-off campus) for our members and the Brisbane hip-hop dance community:
– Our Annual Showcase, presenting the student dancers of our society (3rd August). Over 100+ performers, guest performers and alumni perform and participate.
– Street Groove Anniversary Jam (21 Sept), 3v3 Freestyle Battles, Open Styles & Breaking Categories.
– Dance Camp (Mid-Sem Break 2019)
– Smaller events such as: Red Room 1v1 Battles, House Parties, weekly freestyle practices, video shoots and various performances!
We can’t wait for you to join us this semester!!
YES absolutely!! All our style-based classes (Hip-Hop, Locking, Popping, Waacking, House) are open to all levels of dancers who want to learn or practice basic moves and foundations!
You’re also very welcome to join our Beginner Choreography classes to learn a dance routine – they are geared towards dancers at a beginner or no level of experience. Come through!!
FIRSTLY, YOUR dance is SPECIAL and YOURS and beautiful and no one can take that away from you! Live your best life and dance on the street and be 1000% you.
Secondly, if you want to improve at the execution of certain techniques, the combination of moves, using textures of movement, expressing power, feeling and remembering routines….practice, practice, practice your basics. Understand the full range of movement that your basic steps can go to, what proper muscles to use, how fast you can go, how slow, how many different feelings you can convey with them.
You will learn these things from watching and training with people that do these things! Everyone does things slightly differently and brings a different idea. Take class regularly but also PRACTICE regularly, by yourself but also with others. Hip-hop styles are social dances, not mirror dances.
Thirdly, travel for dance as soon as you are able. Take a harder class. Drive to a different studio. Go interstate, go international. There is so much in dance travel that is amazing and beautiful and unspeakable and indescribable and hard to explain except to others that have gone. You will improve – so – much (if you go as a dance student, not as a dance tourist).
Fourthly, turn the camera on (to record your progress) but also turn it off.
Your dance exists in the spaces between your heartbeats and the feeling of blood rushing to your muscles as they react to music that makes you feel – and you can’t capture that on screen. It is your deeply personal challenge and journey and relief – don’t make it about likes and hits and hashtags.
Yes, my goodness we’re sorry!! You’re not wrong, there is a lot going on but I would say – if all else fails and you hate social media and just want to keep up with ONE THING: then just get on our Instagram! We’re on there the most since most of the dance world is most active on Instagram these days 🙂
When we’re not scrolling FB memes tbh.
