It's funny how a string of discoveries can lead to some truly stupendous results. Me and my roommate, Andrew, rode one such wave of discovery when we started on another foray of exploring music this Monday. Andrew came home that evening, all happy and in a music mood, and asked me to play some nice loud music. Both of us being the techno/electric/trance fans that we are, I figured a trance track would be the best thing to play. I turned up with Lee Cabrera's mix of I Watch You on YouTube. Good song, and a very nice video, which was mostly a mix of other trance videos. One particular sequence towards the end, which had this girl and guy doing a street dance bit, was really awesome. Through sheer luck, Andrew, who was randomly browsing through videos on Azureus Vuze, downloaded the video that had the exact same sequence in it; and we had no clue of who that song was from till Andrew found it! It turned out to be Axwell's Feel The Vibe, and it's easily one of my all-time favorites now.
The dancers in the video were really awesome, too, and it was absolutely impossible that they couldn't be famous themselves, so I looked up the comments on the video to find out that the guy was Salah, a French hip-hop dancer who is part of the Cirque du Soleil; and the girl was Sofia Boutella, an Algerian from Paris who is a Rhythmic Dance graduate of the Berkeley School of Music, and has represented France at the Olympics. She has also been part of the Vagabond Crew, a dance troupe that won the 2006 World Championship Hip-Hop Battle; and has performed with Madonna, Jamiroquai, and Rihanna. She is also a model for Nike Women.
Sofia Boutella is also very, very pretty, as I'm sure you must have noticed by now. :) Any one who wants to lay claim to the title of Best Dancer in the World should probably check these two out before say anything. Street dancing rocks...!
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