Jabbawockeez in Automatic Response Show--By Newton

This performance is presented by JabbaWokeez—a dance crew from Southern California whose members are mostly Asian descents. This background make them unique more or less in the hip hop dance circle of united states. They gained fame by winning the first place in MTV hip hop dance competition series America's Best Dance Crew. As you can tell, their style in this video features typical west coast funk characteristics, including fabulous popping and locking. Actually, their mastery of a wide range of hip hop styles wins them numerous picky fans.
The highlights of this dance are definitely the intricate synchronization and precise timing. Each individual possesses distinctive movement, performing as a component element, and all elements are pleasingly and flawlessly combined, achieving an aesthetic success as a whole. The music choice was , Stat with Blin 182’s The Fallen Interlude, followed by Eagles’ Hotel California, then Clubbed To Death by Rob Dougan, end with Dj Shadow’s Building Steam With A Gran Of Salt. Soft and instrumental melody along with moonlight- like lighting effects, generate indefinable mysterious atmosphere. What I find interesting is that the name of this dance is “State of Emergency”. But their performance seems to be anything but emergent. I think there may be artistic metaphor underlies the contradictory essence, which requires insightfulness to interpret.

Newton :)