Please Note: Dance Dance Monsteru is by Groove Twins (not Go Go Girls).

Here’s another little video that I had laying around. It took me forever to edit it since I’m lazy. I hope you all enjoy and please feel free to subscribe to my youtube channel.

Happy Holidays everyone! We’re all so busy with life at the moment, but we’ll be back into the swing of things very shortly. There’s a few projects that are being planned right now. So keep your eyes open in 2012 for some new videos and lessons. For now I’ll leave you with a photo that I screen capped last night during a Google + hangout with Dom, Jim, Tony and myself.

After a couple months haitus our site and blog are back.Special thanks to Maggie everything is set and stable now.

It’s been six months since the last blog entry, there’s so much that we need to fill you all in on. For now I’ll leave you with this fabulous new video from ZYX. It’s a Disco NRG original choreography to Every Heart Wanna Fly/Irene from SEB 218.

As you’ve probably heard, me, Max and Jasmine were invited by Bancho to dance on the newest Starfire DVD  that comes out at this month’s Starfire.   It’s a really big honor and I’m really thankful to Bancho and to Max and Jasmine.  That makes DVD number 2 for me after King of Techno, but Starfire is definitely a bigger deal than KoT.

The filming was yesterday afternoon, a few weeks later than originally planned because things got delayed after the earthquake.  They used the same studio as the B-1 cosplay dvd.  The Starfire staff is obviously very used to filming because they set everything up right away as if they were professionals.   The techno boys went first with Dragon and they only took a couple of takes.  We were supposed to go fourth, but since the other teams weren’t ready yet they had us go next after Dragon.   Our song was New Horizon, and I’d heard that Ryohei is very strict about getting every move just the way he wants it, but he was pretty gentle on us.  He did change some details of the furi on the spot though.  In that respect it was good that I hadn’t practiced as much as I should have.  Max had practiced a lot so the old furi was stuck in his head and he had a lot of NGs.  It took us 7 takes but I didn’t have a single NG.  But our last take was probably my worst take so I’m not super happy with the final result.  For the first few takes I was super focused, but after a couple of NGs I started to relax and I let my guard down too much.  Plus for some reason on that final take I started to get paranoid that I was stepping backwards, and I was worrying about that and not focusing on my arm movements as much as I could have.  It always feels like I’m dancing big but when I see the video it’s always different from what I felt in my head.  But it’s done and we’re a part of Starfire history now yay!

There was a big earthquake during the filming.  It was a shindo 5 in Ibaraki so about a 3 in Tokyo.  The people dancing didn’t even notice so it was ok, but it’s just a reminder that even though a lot of things are back to normal we’re still dealing with the aftermath of the earthquake.

We didn’t stay to see everything, but Rh, Ke-tan and Negiko did Tell Me Why and they had more NGs than we did so that’s good.  The worst was Hellworld.  They had two random girls I’d never seen before dance Hellworld, and it looked like they had just started dancing parapara last month because it was not good at all.  They did about 6 takes, and then got sent back to practice with Ryuuichi for another hour.  I wonder if they were ever able to get a final take.  They had the Lakshimi girls do Dragon and My Load.  I didn’t see Dragon but they did a Juliana’s take on My Load.  Harumi and Satomi did Sex Killer.  Satomi is such an amazing dancer<3  Harumi’s kid was there running around and he is a handful.

Anyway I’m excited to see the final product in a couple of weeks.  Disco NRG’s name will be in the credits next to my name so look forward to that★

Heather

Last night was the Starfire 11th anniversary event at Pasela in Ginza.  It was one of the best Starfires I’ve been to yet.  People from all over Japan and people from other events who usually don’t come to Starfire came out for the anniversary and it’s nice to see people supporting Starfire.  I got my 11th anniversary cell phone strap 

I think the bartenders at Starfire have been taking notes from the bartenders at SEF because their drinks have gotten super strong.   So I was very happy all night hehe.

The lessons were:
Sex Skiller / Go Go Girls
My Lord / Techno Mob

Sex Skiller is definitely a Ryohei routine.  All 3 members of T-rrex were there for the anniversary. 

My Lord from Hyper Techno Mission felt like a cop out by Ryuuichi.  It was meh.

I think it’s funny that they choregraph these routines the day before the event.  They have a whole month to prepare.

Then it was time for the prize raffle.  Each of the members gave out a prize, and I won the Inocchi prize! I finally won something.   It was Samourai perfume, the same thing I won at SEF Rena and Suzujun’s wedding .  It’s good perfume. 

Matsuno-san from avex gave out bags of avex goods.  Last was Bancho.  And ironically the person who won Bancho’s prize was Satomi, who he loves to pick on.  It was a really good prize too – Starfire t-shirt and every Starfire dvd.  Bancho had wanted it to go to a young person who didn’t have the dvds, so Satomi was nice and gave them out to people. 

Next they gave out something called the Starfire Mastercard – a card that lets you enter Starfire for only 1000 yen each month for a year (normally it’s 2000 -3000 yen).  But they made you earn it in a “Guess that Tune” type game.  The DJ played the intro to a song, and if you could name the song and the artist and dance the routine, you won the Mastercard.  It’s a fun idea!  The DJs weren’t making it easy and kept using deceptively similar songs.  Ryuuichi was judging the techno songs and he was being super picky about the furi.  But it was taking too long that way so they gave it to the guy who danced “Get Up” even though he made a mistake in the sabi.  It was a really weird nerdy guy and he looked so serious when he was dancing.  Nobu and Nori were yelling “you’re Ryuuichi!” while he was dancing haha.  Then he fell on his knees when Ryuuichi gave him the mastercard.  weird guy.

The winner of the eurobeat mastercard was Jasmine, with Go Speed Racer Go.   The gaijin were representing last night. 

Then each member of Starfire gave a message on stage.  Ryuuichi’s was: “I’m looking for a pupil so I can focus on being a movie star.”  He’s done with parapara I guess.  I guess Nobu isn’t a good enough pupil.  Ryuuichi is pretty irreplaceable. 

They also celebrated Ke-tan and T-rrex Ryohei’s engagement.  They each got their own bottle of champagne to down.  They’re a heavy drinking couple  ^^;

Then we drank and danced until the event ended at 6am.  After Starfire finished we went to Denny’s down the street, which is the only restaurant open at that hour in that neighborhood so everyone goes there afterwards.  It’s fun because you can have eggs and bacon with Ryuuichi and Bancho sitting at the table next to you.   Not many people were there this time so it wasn’t that great.  But having food and water after a night of drinking is a great idea.  That’s probably why I was only a little hangovery this morning.   

It’s too bad that Starfire only happens once a month because it’s such a great event.  I’ll have to check out the all you can drink special at B-1 Dynamite this Wednesday.