Why Dance Matters

S9 E2: Crazy Smooth


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Crazy Smooth 

  

Our guest today is the Canadian hip hop dancer and choreographer professionally known as Crazy Smooth. We ask how Crazy Smooth came by his dance name? What makes Canadian street dance distinctive? In this Olympic year, where breaking makes its debut in the Paris games, should we really think of dance as a sport? And if breaking is a young man’s game, how does a b-boy feel when he becomes a b-man? 

  

Crazy Smooth is one of Canada’s top street dance ambassadors, a choreographer, dancer, teacher and community leader. He is the founder and artistic director of Bboyizm, an award-winning dance company that has been instrumental in the preservation and proliferation of street dance in Canada and beyond. Smooth founded Bboyizm in 2004 and the company has successfully brought authentic street dance choreography onto the professional stage. His most recent show, In My Body, won four 2022 Dora Awards including Outstanding Performance and Outstanding Original Choreography, and Crazy Smooth was named Dancer of the Year at the 2023 Dynastie award.  

  

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Bboyizm website https://bboyizm.ca/ 


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