LA-based hip hop group The Groovaloos bring their thrilling new stage production to New York City this week. Learn more about the company with this Dance Magazine article.

“Energy oozes from the stage as a gaggle of dancers executes heart-stopping head-spins, swaggering b-boy moves, and cool popping machinations to the scratching sounds of DJ Wish, AKA, Randy Bernal. When red-headed Alison Faulk bursts onto the scene and morphs from balletic arabesques in sneakers to high-octane hip hop, she also talks—in voice-over narration—about growing up in Miami in an uber-disciplined dance world.

Faulk is a member of the Groovaloos, the Los Angeles-based troupe of hip hop, funk, and street dancers that wowed audiences last summer at Burbank’s Falcon Theatre in a stage show called–what else–”Groovaloo.” In the 90-minute work, directed by Danny Cistone, other dancers tell their own tales, including Groovaloo founder and show co-creator Bradley “Shooz” Rapier, and Stephen “Boogie Man” Stanton.” Read more…

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