Nov
21
2009
B-boy_skater_dancer_choreographer Bill Shannon and his work have already been covered on my blog… of course, that you remember… Today I found new short documentary on his carrier… Bill Shannon aka Crutchmaster is blogging since April this year, so you can check easily his new projects, ideas and working processes right there…

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Sep
14
2008
There are several interesting connections among ethnologists / anthropologists if they happen to be also photographers: being artistically hooked up to dance (in all forms), having a passion for street art (graffiti or murals), and interest in music (in all forms, too!).
(Oh, I forgot also one thing: collecting vintage stuff – old photo gear or analogue and plastic cameras)

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Aug
13
2008
Robert Hylton is an ‘urban classicist’… being continuously tainted with the virus called street art in its most refined sense…
As a youngster he was involved in the UK’s underground Hip Hop scene (break dance and popping techniques included), then jazz dance&stylez, and after a while he realized that contemporary dance might work for him too in a very coolish way…

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Jul
5
2008
Bill Shannon aka Crutchmaster is a rare fish in the whole ocean of contemporary art and performative scene today… exploring social paradigms, as he likes to call it ‘representations of a projective narrative’, Shannon gives a different perspective on human reactions and expectations…

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