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Miles Faber helps
H.E.R. host workshop
The Chronicle November 29, 2011 39
A hellish new
sequel to an
Kamesha Horne-Simmons
The Chronicle
Everyone ready? One and two and three and
four!
H.E.R. hosted a free dance workshop here on
campus Nov. 23 featuring special guest Miles Faber!
All Durham College and UOIT students were
welcome to come and learn some choreography
from Faber.
Faber was third runner-up on season one of
So You Think You Can Dance Canada.
He will also be one of the judges at OUCH
Nov. 26. “We cover jazz, hip-hop, popping, b-
boy, funk, soul, a little bit of salsa, all the urban
stuff,” said Faber “We travel all over Canada to
doing dances workshops.”
Alexandra Crenian, Faber’s assistant said,
“With the workshops sometimes we help each
other out if we’re available, and it kind of happened
we fell into doing a dual teaching together.”
Wayne Carrasco has known Faber for a couple
years now. He’s met him at dance competitions
and they have become good friends.
“When I heard that we were hosting OUCH
I knew he was the perfect fit, so I was, ‘like we
need to bring him out.’ And for OUCH week I
wanted to do a whole prep thing for OUCH to get
people hyped up, so one of the things we decided
Disney Live!
at GM Centre
Austin Rogers
The Chronicle
Disney Live! A special stage event featuring
three classic Disney fairy tales is coming
to the General Motors Centre on Jan 12.
The event features familiar faces such as
Mickey, Minnie, Donald and Goofy, Snow
White and the Seven Dwarfs, Cinderella,
Beauty and the Beast and much more.
The story centres on Mickey and the gang
as they bring classic fairy tale adventures to
life through the pages of a magical storybook
they find in Mickey’s attic.
There will be a morning show at 10:30 and
an evening show at 6:30 with tickets ranging
from $27 to $67.
to do was the workshop with Miles.”
The workshop started off with meeting Faber
and his assistant Crenian, who was also a So You
Think You Can Dance Canada contestant for season
three.
He started off with some simple moves to get
the class warmed up and a little history lesson on
hip-hop dancing. After 45 minutes, the class was
pumped to start choreography to Neyo’s song,
One in a Million.
A lot of the students started to pick up the
choreography fairly quickly and the class was
excited and eager to continue on with the rest of
the routine.
The class was split up into two groups, and
during the routine Faber would give out some
pointers.
By the end of the workshop the class was able
to go through the whole routine with no mistakes.
“I found it really interesting. It was different
for me, out of my element because I’m a b-boy
and I didn’t really know much about hip-hop or
choreography in general,” said Roberto Lloren, a
dancer from H.E.R.“I’m more of a freestyler but
a few of my friends… convinced me to go here,
and it was really worth it.”
“I thought it was really good, it was really informative,”
said Christian Julal, executive member
and freestyle dancer from H.E.R.
Another
Cirque tour
for a new year
Austin Rogers
The Chronicle
The internationally acclaimed Cirque du Soleil
show Quidam is coming to the General Motors
Centre from Jan 4 to 8.
The tour has performed on five different continents
since it’s debut show in Montreal in 1996.
The cast, which features 52 musicians, acrobats,
singers and characters, began their North
American tour in December 2010.
Adult tickets range from $38-$104.50, child
tickets from $31-$85.50 and senior and student
tickets from $34.50-89.75.
old nightmare
Cooper’s
19th studio
album
renews the
chills
Tyler Richards
The Chronicle
American rock star Alice
Cooper released his 19th album
in October.
Intended to be a sequel to
his first solo album Welcome
to My Nightmare, it’s aptly
titled Welcome 2 my Nightmare.
Despite the
unimaginative
title, the
first track, I am
Made of You, is
a hauntingly serene
song that
takes the listener
back to Cooper’s
early days, but
adds a modern
flare with vocal
effects and synthesizers.
‘
The album incorporates
bits and pieces
of Cooper’s different
styles throughout the
years
’
It’s also one of the few
tracks on the album that
could be considered a single.
One of the more interesting
songs is What Baby
Wants, a song that Cooper
recorded with pop artist
Ke$ha. The song has all the
makings of a great dance
track if enhanced more by a
DJ.
Writing about the macabre
has always been a strong
suit for Cooper and Disco
Bloodbath Boogie Fever fits
that theme as probably the
weirdest song on the album.
The lyrics talk about a massacre
at a disco club.
The album itself does indeed
pick up where the first
album left off.
In Welcome to my nightmare
Cooper tells a story of
a child proceeding through
what seems like a nightmare.
In Welcome 2 My Nightmare
it is revealed that this
child, now a grown man, is
actually dead and in hell.
The album incorporates
bits and pieces of Cooper’s
different styles throughout
the years.
Songs like I am Made of
You, will remind you of the
opening track of his first album,
Welcome to my Nightmare.
And songs
like When
Hell Comes
Home are
reminiscent
of his
late eighties
works such
as Feed my
Frankenstein
and Freedom.
Cooper
ends the album
with an underture, a
skillfully arranged instrumental
bit that spans both
the first album and the sequel.
For anyone who is an Alice
Cooper fan this album is a
definite buy, but if you aren’t
used to Cooper’s lyrics and
his way of playing, you might
consider listening to some
of his other albums before
weighing in on this one.