Preview–ABDC5!

Ah-back to the regularly schedule posts! ABDC is back for their 5 Season and all I expect is greatness and pushing the direction of the competition far away from last season. Starts Sunday January 31 (Canada) BUT! With season 3 i was able to find YouTube clips Friday morning after the Thursday showing in the States.

So check back every Friday from the 29th (hopefully the vids will stay on for a long time before it gets deleted).


About Season 5:
• A new judge will be replacing Shane Sparks (after his arrest and allegations)
• Omarion has been announced as the new judge for THIS Season
• There will be 3 Audition Shows Split into South (This Week), East (Feb 4–US), and West (Feb 11–US)
• Each Audition show will be a battle for the top 3 out of 5 crews from each particular coast.
• Once the top 3 are selected from each coast the actual show will begin
• Highlights on the selected crews include a Canadian Crew (mentioned as Foreign?), three 16-year-old participants, a Jump rope crew (WTF?), A crew featuring two members from Status Quo who were 2nd Place after JBWKZ from Season 1 (is that even allowed?)


Competing Crews (Audition Round):

South
Jungle Boogie: Incorporating "Crakin" style
Ghost: featuring a sob story but said to be a hard hitting crew
X–Treme Motion: Booty poppin girls who "buck"(?)
Royal Flush: a crew who auditioned for every single season
Swagger Crew: Breaking away the trendy dance steps for the ATL

East
Saltare: Six of the best Jump Ropers in the USA (wha?)
Blueprint Cru: 1st crew from Montreal, Canada
Legendary Seven: Return of E-Knock & another member from Status Quo
Static Noyze: Mixture of out of the box hip-hop & contemporary
draZtik: The only dance crew from Providence

West
The Blended Projekt : Cloggers creating a new style called "blending"
BreakEFX: Breakers bringing choreography this time around
Heavy Impact/Effect: Breaking the stereotypes of big dancers
Poreotix/Poreotics: Tight–intricate crew bringing comedy to the stage
Hype 5-0: First Hawaiian crew bringing traditional dancing & hip-hop


Featuring dance footage of some of the crews





Interviews with co-creator, KB of the JBWKZ, Shane Sparks, and Poreotix




Source: Blogging Best Dance Crew, Entertainment Weekly