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Boston Globe
an hour ago
- Boston Globe
Dave Scott, hip-hop choreographer, is dead at 52
Mr. Scott was anything but a professional. He learned much of what he knew by decoding the moves from Michael Jackson videos and early hip-hop films such as 'Breakin'' (1984). It didn't matter. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up 'I learned the choreography in two days,' he was quoted as saying in a 2013 article in The New York Post. 'I left school and finished the tour.' Advertisement So much for hoops; Mr. Scott's direction was set. He went on to work as a choreographer for more than 20 films and television shows. His breakout effort was 'You Got Served' (2004), which follows the dance-battle odyssey of a crew of Black teenagers from Los Angeles. Mr. Scott, shown in 2015, started his choreography career by adding moves while part of a group of touring hip-hop dancers. Paul A. Hebert/Paul A. Hebert/Invision/AP The climactic showdown at an MTV dance contest pits them against a posse of white dancers from nearby Orange County with regionally appropriate spiky surf-punk hairstyles. Playing herself as a judge, the hip-hop star Lil' Kim advises the Los Angeles crew, 'Get grimy and dirty -- straight street.' Advertisement That they do. Their performances recalled 'the muscular ballet style pioneered by Gene Kelly and Jerome Robbins,' Dave Kehr wrote in a review in The New York Times, 'except that the pirouettes in this film are more likely to be performed by dancers spinning on their heads than on their toes.' The film, which featured R&B singer Omarion and future 'Family Feud' host Steve Harvey, grossed more than $40 million and broke new ground artistically, Mr. Scott told the Post: 'It was the first time on film you were seeing a mix of B-boys and choreographed dancing in a battle mode.' He also brought his talents to 'Stomp the Yard' (2007), which featured music heavyweights Chris Brown and Ne-Yo and followed the story of a street dancer from Los Angeles (Columbus Short) as he hoofs his way through the fraternity scene at a historically Black college in Atlanta called, yes, Truth University. Among his other notable projects were 'Step Up 2: The Streets' (2008), about a teenage dancer (Briana Evigan) trying to balance her troubled youth with life at an elite arts school, and the 3D dance film 'Battle of the Year' (2013), which also featured him as a dancer, about an American B-boy team going for victory at the international competition of the same name. David Lee Scott Jr. was born Aug. 15, 1972, in Los Angeles, the eldest of four children of David Lee Scott Sr., a plumber, and Evelyn (Rader) Scott. He graduated from Compton High School in 1990. Growing up in the city in South Central Los Angeles made famous by N.W.A.'s landmark 1989 gangster rap album 'Straight Outta Compton' came with clear challenges. Advertisement 'There are gangs and violence there,' he said in a 2008 interview with the site 'I come from a family with a few gang members.' But, he said, 'I think being from the hood strengthens your mind and you have to determine the direction that you want to go in life.' Growing up, he never thought of dancing as a career option. 'Back in the day when we started breaking,' he said, 'it was fun and nobody was like, 'I want to do this for a living.'' His thoughts had turned toward choreography even when dancing for Rob Base. 'I just started adding pieces of choreography to the tour,' he said in a 2008 interview with 'But, really, I have always been, from the time I started to dance, more of a creator, a choreographer.' Along the way, he worked on tours with rapper Bow Wow (then known as Lil' Bow Wow), R&B star Brian McKnight, and others, served as a guest choreographer on ABC's 'Dancing With the Stars' and as a choreographer on 17 episodes of Fox reality show 'So You Think You Can Dance.' He also formed boy band B2K, featuring Omarion, and worked with another, Mindless Behavior. In addition to his son Neko, Mr. Scott leaves his fiancée, Natalie Casanova; his parents; another son, Cy; two sisters, Antoinette Scott-Mays and Tamesha Scott; a daughter, Jasmine Scott; and a granddaughter. Although he said he had never taken so much as a dance lesson, Mr. Scott took his craft seriously. 'A lot of people feel like they can get up off their couch and just do hip-hop,' he told 'But in actuality, if you don't know the basics, where it came from, then you're stuck. You gotta know the core before you can groove it out.' Advertisement This article originally appeared in
San Francisco Chronicle
18 hours ago
- San Francisco Chronicle
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale appoints new music director
For only the fourth time in more than four decades, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale is passing the baton to a new music director. Irish conductor Peter Whelan is poised to take the role for a three-year term starting next July for the 2026-27 season, which marks the company's 45th anniversary. He steps in for Richard Egarr, who resigned after four years in 2024 to pursue new opportunities. 'I'm just so excited to be starting this new adventure,' Whelan told the Chronicle. 'I think the most important thing nowadays is building a community around the arts and that community is already there in San Francisco.' Whelan has been highly regarded for the way in which he breathes new life into early music, bringing a vibrant perspective to the works. He made his first appearance with Philharmonia in March, conducting Handel's 'Alceste,' and debuted with the San Francisco Opera in 2022, helming Gluck's ' Orpheus and Eurydice.' The Chronicle's longtime classical music critic, Joshua Kosman, who retired last year, once praised Whelan as 'an artist of delicate but unmistakable mastery.' 'Peter brings a rare combination of historical insight and creative energy that resonates deeply with our mission,' said Emma Moon, Philharmonia's executive director and CEO. 'His work with us on 'Alceste' was both masterful and inspiring. We're excited to embark on this new chapter with him at the artistic helm.' Whelan studied at the Royal Irish Academy of Music and Trinity College Dublin, and has an extensive discography as a solo bassoonist in addition to his work as a conductor. In 2022, he won a Laurence Olivier Award for outstanding achievement in opera for a production of Vivaldi's 'Bajazet' with Irish National Opera. Whelan currently serves as artistic director of Irish Baroque Orchestra and founding artistic director of Ensemble Marsyas, both based in the U.K. He plans to initially remain there and travel to San Francisco for rehearsals, concerts and other engagements. He said that he hopes by bringing his expertise to Philharmonia that he'll be able to foster an environment of inclusivity and community. 'Live concerts and live music making is a place where you can confront biases, you can see how other people feel,' he noted. 'I think that that's such an important thing in the world today.' Before heading across the pond, however, Whelan is set to make his conducting debut at BBC Proms, an eight-week classical music festival, in August with a performance of Handel's 'Alexander's Feast' alongside the Irish Baroque Orchestra. The milestone performance will mark the ensemble's first Prom appearance and the second time in more than 100 years that an Irish orchestra has performed during the series. Correction: A previous version of this story misstated where Whelan will be living when he begins his new position. He will remain based in the U.K. and travel to San Francisco regularly for the job.
Yahoo
a day ago
- Yahoo
‘We will beat Government for second time in court' – Kneecap at largest ever gig
Next month will see 'the second time Kneecap have beat the British Government in court', the Irish rap trio said at their largest gig to date. The 45,000-strong crowd in Finsbury Park, London watched them walk on in front of a screen that said 'Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people'. They were supporting Irish band Fontaines DC, whose front man Grian Chatten joined to perform their collaboration Better Way To Live. People echoed the Belfast group's chants when they repeated the 'f*** Keir Starmer' and 'you're just a s*** Jeremy Corbyn' comments made at Glastonbury the previous weekend. Liam Og O hAnnaidh, who performs as Mo Chara, appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court earlier this month charged with a terror offence and will return next month. Fellow member Naoise O Caireallain, who uses the stage name Moglai Bap, said 'if anyone's free on the 20th of August, you wanna go to the court and support Mo Chara' before shouting 'free Mo Chara, free, free Mo Chara'. Wearing a keffiyeh, O hAnnaidh responded: 'I appreciate it, the 20th of August is going to be the second time Kneecap have beat the British Government in court – in their own court, on their own terms, and we're going to beat them for the second time. 'I tell you what, there is nothing like embarrassing the British Government.' Last year Kneecap won a discrimination challenge over a decision by former business secretary Kemi Badenoch to refuse them a £14,250 funding award. The UK Government conceded it was 'unlawful' after the band launched legal action claiming the decision to refuse the grant discriminated against them on grounds of nationality and political opinion. It was agreed that the £14,250 sum would be paid by the Government to the group. During the performance the group intermittently broke off the mosh pits and raucous crowd by addressing the war in Gaza, which is a recurring theme of their shows. O hAnnaidh said: 'It's usually around this point of the gig that we decide to talk about what's happening in Palestine. 'I understand that it's almost inhumane that I'm thinking of new things to say on stage during a genocide, for sound bites. 'It's beyond words now, like, we always used to say obviously they're being bombed from the skies with nowhere to go, but it's beyond that now. 'They've been being starved for a few months on end, and not only that, the areas that they have set up, to collect aid and food, have turned into killing fields and they're killing hundreds a day trying to collect food.' He continued: 'It's beyond words, but again, we played in Plymouth last night to 750 people and we did the same thing, so it doesn't matter how big or small our audience is, Kneecap will always use the platform for talking about this.' O Caireallain had said earlier in the show: 'They can try and silence us, they can try and stop us, but we're not going to stop talking about Palestine – as long as there's a genocide happening in Palestine we're going to keep talking about it and yous are going to keep talking about it, and they can't stop us.' The UN human rights office has recorded 613 killings near humanitarian convoys and at aid distribution points in Gaza run by an Israeli-backed American organisation since it began operations in late May. On Friday its spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani said the rights office was not able to attribute responsibility for the killings, but 'it is clear that the Israeli military has shelled and shot at Palestinians trying to reach the distribution points' operated by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). The GHF has denied any serious injuries or deaths on its sites and says shootings outside their immediate vicinity are under the purview of Israel's military. The Israeli military has said previously it fires warning shots to control crowds or at Palestinians who approach its troops.
