Happy New Year!!!
May 2009 be a great year ahead for Lion City Lockers. It promises to be more happening, with more sessions, events, and competitions for Singapore Lockers! I'm sure that more renowned lockers will make their way to our lion city too... =)
Of course, Chunky and I also have many plans for you guys. March 2009 will be our 1st Anniversary, so expect something funky coming your way!
Last but not least, wish everyone all the best for 2009! Stay funky, happy and enjoy locking!
Cheers,
Ceekay. =)
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
It's X'mas!
On behalf of Lion City Lockers,
MERRY X'MAS TO EVERYONE!
May you guys have a funky christmas... Get out there and dance with your friends, spread the love for funk and enjoy yourself!
Do check this blog for updates soon, I'm arranging for a session for LCL soon!
The session should be within the next 2 weeks.
I'm sure all of you can't wait for it! =)
Have a funky time, cheers!
MERRY X'MAS TO EVERYONE!
May you guys have a funky christmas... Get out there and dance with your friends, spread the love for funk and enjoy yourself!
Do check this blog for updates soon, I'm arranging for a session for LCL soon!
The session should be within the next 2 weeks.
I'm sure all of you can't wait for it! =)
Have a funky time, cheers!
Friday, December 19, 2008
Inspirational Video!
Chunky showed me this video today, which he hopes can also inspire you guys. Check it out!
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
A random post about Locking!
Hello everyone! It's Ceekay here once again... =)
As we're coming near to the end of 2008, it's perhaps a good time for us to look back and evaluate the locking scene in Singapore... In case you guys didn't realise, Lion City Lockers was formed in March 2008, meaning that we are already 9 months old!
It has been remarkable as to how the locking scene in Singapore has grown during the past 9 months. Just barely a year ago, one could count the total number of recognised lockers in Singapore with 2 hands. Yet fast forward to the end of 2008, we see people picking up locking almost everywhere, and with more lockers being recognised within the local dance scene.
Credits definitely go to Chunky, the man who formed Lion City Lockers and made it possible for the locking scene to grow so rapidly. His vision was simple; he wanted to spread the love of locking and funk across Singapore, and also encourage more people to learn the art form of locking. Hence LCL was born, and the seed of locking has now grown up here to be a young but strong tree.
So nowadays we see people picking up locking from dance studios, as well as joining LCL and gaining their first exposure to what locking is. But still, one question lingers in everyone's mind, and it's also something that many people have came to asked me: "How do you improve in locking? What does Locking mean to you?"
I think I shall answer these 2 questions here; hopefully it will inspire all lockers out there. My opinions are, however, purely my own perception of locking. It is still up to your own personal intepretation to understand what locking is. =)
Locking, as most of you should know, was founded during the Soul Funk era in the 1970s, by this man called Don Campbell. Just like for any other dance genres, the music plays a big part when it comes to Locking. Hence, it is important to know the history of locking and understand why Locking was done to Soul/Funk music in the 1970s. At that time, locking was born on a well known TV show called "The Soul Train", where black americans got to express themselves by dancing to Soul and Funk music.
It doesn't matter to them whether the moves look good; they just wanted to enjoy the freedom of expressing themselves, and dance to the music the way they love to. That is why they look so funky... Every move they do is natural, and comes from the bottom of their heart. Everyone has their own character and their own way of intepreting the music!
Check out this video here to see an example of blacks dancing at "The Soul Train":
Therefore, in my opinions, you gotta feel the music and express yourself from the bottom of your heart. Techniques and form are important of course, but the foundation of it all comes from your love for the music as well as your own way of expressing yourself. Techniques, form, angles are things you can always work on to improve by constantly practising hard, but truly dancing to the music is something that is born in you... Feel the music through your own character, dance with your own style and your own way of intepreting the music. =)
Also, remain humble in dance always. There's always something for you to learn, something new for you to try, and every time you dance it should be a new experience. Even when you hear the same songs over and over again, you may dance differently to the songs everytime as you can intepret it in so many different ways. I'm sure that this applies to any form of dance, not just locking.
Last but not least, enjoy the music and stay happy when you dance! Locking is so different from many other street dance genres, because it is funky, happy and it celebrates! Be happy to dance, and enjoy expressing yourself like there's no one watching you. You should do locking as if you're celebrating your freedom to dance! There may be only a certain number of moves we have in locking, but there's endless ways of doing each move and different ways of combining them. You can always add in your own flavour, your own moves... Don't stop exploring!
This post may be long, but I hope that it has inspired you somehow. Locking may not be easy to many of you, and the road towards improving is long and arduous... But I'm sure that as long as you truly love funk music and enjoy dancing, nothing can stop you from being the dancer you can be.
Stay funky always, and enjoy your festive holidays coming up!
Cheers,
Ceekay. =)
As we're coming near to the end of 2008, it's perhaps a good time for us to look back and evaluate the locking scene in Singapore... In case you guys didn't realise, Lion City Lockers was formed in March 2008, meaning that we are already 9 months old!
It has been remarkable as to how the locking scene in Singapore has grown during the past 9 months. Just barely a year ago, one could count the total number of recognised lockers in Singapore with 2 hands. Yet fast forward to the end of 2008, we see people picking up locking almost everywhere, and with more lockers being recognised within the local dance scene.
Credits definitely go to Chunky, the man who formed Lion City Lockers and made it possible for the locking scene to grow so rapidly. His vision was simple; he wanted to spread the love of locking and funk across Singapore, and also encourage more people to learn the art form of locking. Hence LCL was born, and the seed of locking has now grown up here to be a young but strong tree.
So nowadays we see people picking up locking from dance studios, as well as joining LCL and gaining their first exposure to what locking is. But still, one question lingers in everyone's mind, and it's also something that many people have came to asked me: "How do you improve in locking? What does Locking mean to you?"
I think I shall answer these 2 questions here; hopefully it will inspire all lockers out there. My opinions are, however, purely my own perception of locking. It is still up to your own personal intepretation to understand what locking is. =)
Locking, as most of you should know, was founded during the Soul Funk era in the 1970s, by this man called Don Campbell. Just like for any other dance genres, the music plays a big part when it comes to Locking. Hence, it is important to know the history of locking and understand why Locking was done to Soul/Funk music in the 1970s. At that time, locking was born on a well known TV show called "The Soul Train", where black americans got to express themselves by dancing to Soul and Funk music.
It doesn't matter to them whether the moves look good; they just wanted to enjoy the freedom of expressing themselves, and dance to the music the way they love to. That is why they look so funky... Every move they do is natural, and comes from the bottom of their heart. Everyone has their own character and their own way of intepreting the music!
Check out this video here to see an example of blacks dancing at "The Soul Train":
Therefore, in my opinions, you gotta feel the music and express yourself from the bottom of your heart. Techniques and form are important of course, but the foundation of it all comes from your love for the music as well as your own way of expressing yourself. Techniques, form, angles are things you can always work on to improve by constantly practising hard, but truly dancing to the music is something that is born in you... Feel the music through your own character, dance with your own style and your own way of intepreting the music. =)
Also, remain humble in dance always. There's always something for you to learn, something new for you to try, and every time you dance it should be a new experience. Even when you hear the same songs over and over again, you may dance differently to the songs everytime as you can intepret it in so many different ways. I'm sure that this applies to any form of dance, not just locking.
Last but not least, enjoy the music and stay happy when you dance! Locking is so different from many other street dance genres, because it is funky, happy and it celebrates! Be happy to dance, and enjoy expressing yourself like there's no one watching you. You should do locking as if you're celebrating your freedom to dance! There may be only a certain number of moves we have in locking, but there's endless ways of doing each move and different ways of combining them. You can always add in your own flavour, your own moves... Don't stop exploring!
This post may be long, but I hope that it has inspired you somehow. Locking may not be easy to many of you, and the road towards improving is long and arduous... But I'm sure that as long as you truly love funk music and enjoy dancing, nothing can stop you from being the dancer you can be.
Stay funky always, and enjoy your festive holidays coming up!
Cheers,
Ceekay. =)
Monday, November 24, 2008
Locking WORKSHOP
Hi Lockers!
Heres an upcoming Locking workshop
By K-Lock
Yea! its him!
Venue:Danzpeople studio
Date:17thdec 2008
Time:8.30pm-10pm
Fee:$18.00
-anything feel free to enquire from him -98313460
Heres an upcoming Locking workshop
By K-Lock
Yea! its him!
Venue:Danzpeople studio
Date:17thdec 2008
Time:8.30pm-10pm
Fee:$18.00
-anything feel free to enquire from him -98313460
Monday, November 17, 2008
Well Done!
Hey guys, this is Ceekay here.
Didn't had the chance to talk to u guys after Floor The Love was over, so here's my message to all of you funky people out there:
First of all, I would like to say a loud "WELL DONE"! It was a great performance, everything went well, the audience liked it and Chunky gave the thumbs up for the performance. I'm very proud of you guys!
Secondly, a big THANK YOU to all of you who had performed or played a part for our performance. It had been tough on you guys coming down for practices and cooperating so well during the mere 5 practices we had. It was really quite a miracle actually that we did everything in 5 practices yea.
Next, I hope that all of you had enjoyed yourselves, be it for the performance or for the session that we had on Sunday. For those who came on Sunday, I'm sure that all of you had learnt valuable lessons and tips from the two dope locking masters from Taiwan. So keep it up and don't stop practicing, and we'll continue to spread the love of locking across our funky lion city!
Last but not least, Lion City Lockers will be taking a short break and we'll resume sessions next month. In the meantime there will be several dance productions going on, such as O School Recital, Fbodz's and NRA's productions... Take your time to attend all these events and broaden your horizon even more!
So stay funky everyone, I'll see you guys at the next LCL session. Cheers!
Pictures of LCL + Elmo & 嚣张 from Taiwan!
ps.
just a random note... don't eat chicken rice at Far East! lol.
Didn't had the chance to talk to u guys after Floor The Love was over, so here's my message to all of you funky people out there:
First of all, I would like to say a loud "WELL DONE"! It was a great performance, everything went well, the audience liked it and Chunky gave the thumbs up for the performance. I'm very proud of you guys!
Secondly, a big THANK YOU to all of you who had performed or played a part for our performance. It had been tough on you guys coming down for practices and cooperating so well during the mere 5 practices we had. It was really quite a miracle actually that we did everything in 5 practices yea.
Next, I hope that all of you had enjoyed yourselves, be it for the performance or for the session that we had on Sunday. For those who came on Sunday, I'm sure that all of you had learnt valuable lessons and tips from the two dope locking masters from Taiwan. So keep it up and don't stop practicing, and we'll continue to spread the love of locking across our funky lion city!
Last but not least, Lion City Lockers will be taking a short break and we'll resume sessions next month. In the meantime there will be several dance productions going on, such as O School Recital, Fbodz's and NRA's productions... Take your time to attend all these events and broaden your horizon even more!
So stay funky everyone, I'll see you guys at the next LCL session. Cheers!
Pictures of LCL + Elmo & 嚣张 from Taiwan!
ps.
just a random note... don't eat chicken rice at Far East! lol.
Friday, November 14, 2008
Floor The Love Performance!
Hello all!
Lion City Lockers will be performing for the first time ever at Floor The Love 2008, an event organised by Korea-Singapore Dance Project (KSDP) and Natasha Studios. Turn up at the event and support us! =D
Here's a map of where Floor The Love will be held:
For more information, visit http://floorthelove.blogspot.com/!
Other than that, Lion City Lockers will also have a free-for-all jam session on 16th November, Sunday!
Lion City Lockers Jam Session
Time: 6pm-730pm
Venue: DanceOnUs Studio
Cost: FREE!
Do come down and join us for a funky good time!
Credits to Chris for making the session possible. =)
See you guys at the two events!
For performers:
Meeting Venue: Dhoby Ghaut MRT Station NS Line (red) Control Station area
Meeting Time: 1230pm (we'll set off at 1245 sharp!)
Performance attire: Funky and Colourful!
Contact persons: Ceekay (96212308), Su Ling (91869083)
*Those having Fong's locking class, the class has been pushed forward to 1230pm and it'll end at 130pm. So you guys can join us after your class is over*
Lion City Lockers will be performing for the first time ever at Floor The Love 2008, an event organised by Korea-Singapore Dance Project (KSDP) and Natasha Studios. Turn up at the event and support us! =D
Here's a map of where Floor The Love will be held:
For more information, visit http://floorthelove.blogspot.com/!
Other than that, Lion City Lockers will also have a free-for-all jam session on 16th November, Sunday!
Lion City Lockers Jam Session
Time: 6pm-730pm
Venue: DanceOnUs Studio
Cost: FREE!
Do come down and join us for a funky good time!
Credits to Chris for making the session possible. =)
See you guys at the two events!
For performers:
Meeting Venue: Dhoby Ghaut MRT Station NS Line (red) Control Station area
Meeting Time: 1230pm (we'll set off at 1245 sharp!)
Performance attire: Funky and Colourful!
Contact persons: Ceekay (96212308), Su Ling (91869083)
*Those having Fong's locking class, the class has been pushed forward to 1230pm and it'll end at 130pm. So you guys can join us after your class is over*
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