Apologies on the blog being super quiet for the past few weeks. We were contemplating on closing the blog due to certain reasons but after seeing that you guys do want reviews, we thought against it. Plus, the biggest dance event this year is right around the corner. We hope to keep the hype up for Danz Arena Y2K9!
THIRUVILAIYAADAL Night
1st place – Pretty Boys
2nd place – Crew Voltage
3rd place - Ragazza
We kind of figured that most teams taking part were doing so to put up their Danz Floor piece. And we were right! 80% of the items put up were repeats from Danz Floor.
Pretty Boys
3 words. Wow. Wow. WOW. You (shirtless) boys certainly caught out eyes! We were yearning to re watch your item since we first saw it during Danz Floor and might we say, that is one impressive piece! Choreography was astoundingly new. Frankly, after seeing the skills of groups like AcidHouz, Killabeez, Aerocratz etc, we didn’t really think that things could get any better. But these pretty boys have really proved us wrong! Although the concept is one that is running on overdrive now (love), we feel as though the execution was flawless. From the hydrogen heart shaped balloons to the synchronized somersaults to the 10 second dress-change, you boys kept us captivated not once, but twice in a row, even though we’ve seen your item before. Keep it up all the way boys! There was no doubt in our heart that you guys had clinched the trophy and that you guys did! Well done! Our eyes are peeled for your next competition so keep rocking it!
Crew Voltage
The first thing that this group screams out once they are one stage is their vibrant energy! We’ve seen it once (Danz Floor) and we’ve seen it again. The collaboration between both sexes in the group has been well worked out thanks to their on stage chemistry. With their high beat song (Oru Kal, Oru Kannaadi) and charismatic charm, you people had us screaming from the moment you got on stage! Once in a while, here and there, coordination and positioning were abit off, but we guess we can close one eye on that. And that’s only because your positive energy knocks all these small negative facts right off stage! Another interesting thing that this team possess is that their female counterparts dance AS vigorously as their male counterparts. Now, it’s quite rare to spot such a thing so we were quite pleased to actually see it. Awesome energy CV! And we really liked your ending pose as well! Congratulations on 2nd place!
Ragazza
We’ve seen their performance before for Danz Floor and when we heard they were up, we were cringing. After what we’ve seen during Danz Arena Y2K8, we really had our hopes up high buy alas! Their Danz Floor piece really disappointed us. Enna aachu girls? First of all, the item they had was one they had used during a previous competition, some years ago. We automatically recognized their costumes, as seen from that previous competition. The 2nd part of their dance was extremely… how do we say this?... Messy! The 2nd part of their dance was extremely messy! We understood the concept they had on hand but execution was, we don’t mean to say this, but it was bad. BUT, having said that about their Danz Floor performance, we did see a couple of changes for Thiruvilayaadal Nite, one of which was thee fabric that was used to represent water, we think. The physical aspects to the second part of their piece was truly a feat, considering that the team consists of only females! Can we hear ‘GIRL POWER!’? Although it still wasn’t all that there yet, it was certainly better then what we saw for Danz Floor. We still think that you girls have the capacity to give us better judging from your Danz Arena Y2K8 piece and we hope that you don’t let us down during Danz Arena Y2K9. Whatever it is, congratulations on winning 3rd place!
Special Shout Outs!
RSR
LADIES! Or should we say sexy ladies! What an awesome effort we saw on stage! Now this is what an all girls team is about! It’s about exuding sexiness and carrying out the dance altogether in one wrapped up package. And guess what? You girls nailed it! We’ve seen your dance during Danz Arena and instantaneously fell in love with it! Whether we fell in love you girls, or fell in love with the dance, I think we will let the audience have their own say. Bloody awesome costumes with nice jingly bells attached to them! It was evident that their theme (Modern Broadway) was infused into their costumes and choreography making it what we call a ‘complete’ competition item. Well done girls! Danz Arena is around the corner, so what do you have in store for us? All the best!
TidBits
We are finding it extremely hard to write reviews especially when there are so many competitors for just one night. A good example would be both Danz Floor and Thiruvilayaadal Nite. With 18 and 13 teams respectively, it’s close to impossible to write on everyone thus we seek your understanding.
DGeneration did a performance extremely identical to one we’ve seen on Ungalil Yaar Adutha Prabhu Deva. We are not pointing any fingers here, but having the same song and concept, it is kind of hard to conclude otherwise. BUT, energy and expressions were flawless. Flawless. Good on your guys. We bet that if this team injects a little bit of thought and originality, these (wounded) boys can go far with their passion! So live it up, fella’s!
Chakraz! We’ve given our comments on their Suthuthe Suthuthe performance once before, so we shall not do it again. It’s true that we love that item but the same item thrice in a row does make it ‘jelak’ however nice it is! Hopefully it’s the last time we see our poor Chakraz girls being whirled in the air like UFO’s!
And last but not lease, how can we forget last year’s THIRUVILAIYAADAL nite winners, SYNCHRONIX! They gave us a power packed guest performance as did Agni Reloaded! Fantastic energy fella’s! You boys really kept the spirit up till the very end of the event!
