Heal the Hood Hip Hop School invited to Norway and Germany

On the 27 th April 2007, as part of his attempt to pass on skills to the next generation, Emile of Black Noise formed a hip hop school with South Africas number one b-boy/ breakdancer Alfred Burgess aka B-Boy Benny, Daniel Van Wyk and Leticia Fisher, a new school hip hop dancer. Since then they have taught thousands of youth regionally, nationally and toured to the UK and Italy to teach hip hop dance and perform at festivals like WOMAD, the World Music and Dance festival.

Recently, B-boy Benny was selected as South Africas best breakdancer to represent South Afrca at the World 1 on 1 champs and international co-ordinators selected Emile to be a judge at this international competition. Leticia and Emile remained in Guateng to teach hip hop dance at the British Councils “Power in the Voice”. The Western Cape Cultural Commission has just pledged to support Project Breaking, an anti-racism project initiated by Emile, to break the legacy of apartheid that continues to divide our communities and stops us from becoming a united South African nation. The project has just been launched at District Six Museums’ Homecoming Centre and will host a huge monthly gathering in various communities. It also plans to record and release a song, music video, books and magazines telling the stories of youth and dealing with the issue of racism in Cape Town.

Heal the Hood Hip Hop School is invited to tour schools in Norway for a month and will leave this Saturday. While in Norway they have also been asked to perform, give talks about their work in the South African Hip Hop scene and Emile has been asked to present a lecture at the world Breakdance Champs in Germany. Anyone interested in finding out more about the project or establishing Heal the Hood Project in their communities, can call Tanswell at 021 7060481 or Fabian at 0731366140.