'A Night of Music & Dancing' - Cleveland gets HYPE - This Saturday!!!!!

It’s all about Flava Unit and Sample Jack Promotions as they present ‘A Night of Music & Dancing’ on Saturday, November 10th at Dailey’s Blue Mountain Inn. The dance features John Hype, the originator of several dances such as ‘Signal di Plane’, ‘Fan dem off’ and his latest dance mashing up Jamaica’s dancehall scene, ‘The Gully Side’.

This will definitely be a must see event as the flyer is calling out all dancers to test their skills with the #1 dancer straight out of Jamaica……

Born Jonathan Prendergast, aka John Hype. Stage named by "Firelinks",John Hype has been revolutionizing the dancehall game with his edgy creativity and dancing savvy, creating new moves to match the slamming dancehall rhythms coming out of the island's studios. In the last few years, he has created a slew of dances with self-explanatory names such as 'The Propeller' and the ultra-popular 'Pon Di River' that rock dancehalls from Kingston to Negril.

“I created all those dances at 'Hot Mondays' (an event held at Hagley Park Road in Kingston)”, says Hype “‘Hot Mondays’ ah my place, ah my house, ah my dancing school. I build it, I have been going there from it start when it was only five persons in the venue. That's where I create all my dances except the 'Drive By', I just listen to the rhythm, and my mind and body do the rest”.

To create more respect for the art of dancing in Jamaica he has also helped to form a core of 11 dancers, the Higher Level Squad, who all hail from the Lyndhurst Road, Dillon Avenue and Rousseau Road areas in Kingston.

Hype says he was greatly inspired by Bogle, “Bogle is my inspiration, we danced together, him teach mi certain t'ings 'bout dance and we go all over the place together until the tragedy of Willie Haggart*. Bogle taught me a thing at Asylum. He said, 'never hold the back page, always go up front, that is where everything is happening'.

‘A Night of Music & Dancing’ will also feature sounds by Sample Jack with KC, Lava and Slaughta alongside New Horizon, and Star Temple. It all goes down THIS Saturday, November 10th! But to get you HYPE for this sell off event, check out the videos below! For more information on John Hype go to: http://www.johnhype.com/ or www.myspace.com/john squad.

Until then -

Bashy

*William "Willie Haggart" Moore - Leader of the Black Roses Dance Crew, slain in April, 2001. Upon his death, Gerald ‘Bogle’ Levy had ascended to the leadership until his death in January of 2005.