Shorecrest Hip Hop Team is on King 5 Wednesday morning, performing at the Moore Theatre Friday and Saturday

The Shorecrest Hip-Hop Team will be featured on KING-TV 5 morning news, Wednesday, July 6

The Shorecrest Hip-Hop team is spending the week in workshops at the Moore Theatre, training with professional dancers from a wide variety of dance styles for a show - Dance This - to be performed this Friday and Saturday, July 8 and 9, at the Moore Theater, 7:30pm. Tickets can be purchased through STGPresents.

The team is learning the choreography for styles from Afro-Brazilian with choreographer Dora Oliveira, to Tap with La Twon Allen, to Tahitian with Nanve Radford.

In addition, they were able to learn choreography from Joe Bowie, a dancer with the Mark Morris Dance Company. And they learned musical theatre choreography from the Broadway show West Side Story.

Each group involved will perform a routine of their own.

Coach Rex Kinney, who is teaching Hip Hop during the week, said that the Shorecrest Team will perform their competition routine from the WIAA State finals. 

"The Team took 2nd Place in a highly competitive 3A Hip Hop category." said Kinney, who was awarded "Coach of the Year" by the Washington State Dance/Drill Coaches Association for 1A/2A/3A schools.

2011 Shorecrest Hip Hop Dance Team
Coached by Rex Kinney (front, right)

Kinney said "the team will be rehearsing to finish the finale piece - a routine to close the show with all dancers - and getting to be on-stage at the Moore to tech their own number in the show. So that will be fun and exciting for the kids."

The line up for the show:

• Afro-Brazilian - Choreographed by Dora Oliveira
• Emerging Artist Contemporary - Choreographed by STG’s Young Choreographer’s Lab
• Hip Hop - Choreographed by Daniel Cruz
• Modern - Choreographed by Mark Morris
• West Side Story Musical Theatre Medley - Staged by Broadway’s Joey McKneely
• Shorecrest High Dance Team - Choreographed by Rex Kinney
• Tahitian - Choreographed by Nanave Radford, performed by Te Fare O Tamat