Team VINCE

ARTIST出演者紹介

Team VINCE

CONCEPT
Vince Mendoza has won titles at street dance contests all over the globe. Based partly on Mendoza’s life, Hilatas (The Light that Guides You) conjures up a vision of always looking forward in pursuit of your dreams, and never looking back even in the face of adversity. Witness history in the making with this masterpiece of a show that condenses a wide range of dance styles, from street to contemporary and acrobatics.

■Choreographer, Director

Vince Mendoza “Crazybeans”Philippine Allstars (the Philippines)
Mendoza is a dancer and choreographer, and a member of Philippine Allstars.
He is the Philippine representative for the UK B-Boy Championship’s Popping division, and recently won the popping category at Hungary’s 2016 Get Down contest, and the all-style category at Vietnam’s Together Time.
He also won first prize in SDK ASIA 2016 (Hong Kong) as a member of TEAM X.
In 2010, 2012 and 2016, he competed the Juste Debout contest, held in Singapore and France, as one half of the dance unit Prince & Vince.
His work includes music videos, commercials, and choreographs. In 2015, he participated in DANCE DANCE ASIA in Tokyo as a member of Philippine Allstars.

■Performers

Khenobu（Malaysia）
Khenobu is a B-Boy and choreographer.
He holds numerous titles from battles at home and abroad, and he is also the champion of the 2013 Red Bull BC1 Malaysia. Besides his work as a dancer, he also runs a dance studio.
He is also training in mixed martial arts (MMA) and Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ) at Klinch MMA.

Bboy Allen（the Philippines）
Bboy Allen is a talented dancer who is selected for this production at the age of 15.
He believes that being a B-Boy is his destiny.
He is currently trying his hand at popping. In 2009, at the age of eight, he won the B-Boy battle All Stars Anniversary.
He is an active competitor in battles both in the Philippines and abroad.
Still a high school student, he teaches dancing to his classmates.

Rhosam V. Prudenciado Jr. “Sickledsam” （the Philippines）
Prudenciado Jr. is a dancer who serves as director of Air Dance Company.
Between starting dance at the age of seven and turning professional in 2006, he gained a wide background in dance that ranged from traditional dancing to hip-hop and street dance.
He currently works as a contem-porary and aerial dancer. He is winner of the 2009 Yokohama Dance Collection, and has also stu-dies in France on scholarship.
He has also co-starred with Maki Morishita and Shigemi Kitamura in performances.
He also appeared in Mau directed by Kanjuro Fujima, which was a co-production involving dancers from Japan and four ASEAN countries.

Salt（Indonesia）
Salt is a popper who started dancing in 2009.
He participated as a member of The90sASIA in A Frame which was staged in Tokyo in 2015.
In 2011 and 2013, he won the Gatsby Dance Competi-tion’s Indonesia qualifiers.
Aside from dancing, he also works as a filmmaker.

Bird（Singapore）
Bird is a dancer who started out with hip-hop and currently specializes in locking and freestyle.
In 2014, she was judge for both Real Deal and TRI-UNI ALL-STYLE BATTLE, and has won many titles in battles at home and abroad.
Currently, she is completing a bachelor’s degree in psychol-ogy at the Singapore Nanyang Technological University (NTU).
The dancer she admires is YOSHIE.

Naoko Matsuda（Japan）
Matsuda is a choreographer and dancer with experience in all kinds of genres.
In 2007, she partic-ipated in 21MASDANZA, the International Contemporary Dance Festival of the Canary Islands in Spain, as a performer in NOISE ACT, a work choreographed by Anna, which was awarded the top prize.
In 2009, she staged a solo performance, Karisome. Recently, she has performed as one of the four members of BIG4, along with fellow members Kaoru Harada, YOSHIE, and Oguri, and has choreographed musicals.

■Bass/Kubing (Filippino jaw harp）

Carlo Bernardino（the Philippines）
Bernardino is a self-taught musician.
This time, he plays the kubing, a traditional Filipino jaw harp and bass.
Starting out as bassist in the hip-hop scene in 2006, he became a member of Tukar-Sinati on 2013.
He also works in film/video production and produces events and gigs.

[DDA Cast history]
2016.12　DANCE DANCE ASIA in TOKYO 2016