CoCo - VIEs Realest: Bad Habit - Videoshoot - Behind the scenes

Hello, dear readers!

My first task to unite Hip Hop artists of different Hip Hop elements is completed! Do you remember female rapper CoCo - VIEs Realest? If not, you should check out her short biography: http://hiphopvienna.blogspot.co.at/2014/07/coco-vies-realest.html

She asked me a month ago to get her some female dancers for a videoshooting. Supporting her, I wrote a shout out-blog entry shared it in the correct facebook-groups, asked HHVB-member Stella and my own supporter Mr. Ritz (TRIPLE G) to help us out. Finally, we had 10 confirmations.




On the 27th of September, we met at 5 o'clock in the evening in the underground station "Friedensbrücke". We were shooting the video on the streets with legal graffitis in the background. Oh, yes, we felt so underground and so Hip Hop!

But before the videoshooting began, CoCo wanted to connect with the dancers, introduce herself and the track "Bad Habit" to the dancers. It was important to CoCo and me, to unite ourselves with the dancers to one team. And it worked! 9 dancers came, 7 of them stayed and we started straight away with the videoshooting.

CoCo - VIEs Realest making an informal meeting
with the dancers; copyright by Kathleen Montorio

Behind the video camera was motivated Fatih!

We started with a warm up. Stella suggested to do a cypher. The dancers had fun and developped a feeling of being one team very quickly even though for most of them, it was the first time they get to know each other.

from left to the right: cameraman Fatih and the dancers
Stella, Jennito (Viberz crew), Sophie, Jana, Iris and Miranda;
copyright by Kathleen Montorio

The videoshooting ended at around 8 o'clock in the evening. I won't tell you too much about the video-scenes, but I'll show you some pictures of it.

in the front: Jana and Sophie;copyright by Kathleen Montorio

cameraman Fatih and dancer Tijey (Viberz crew);
copyright by Kathleen Montorio

It made me proud to live Hip Hop at its roots and after its real motto "Peace, Love, Unity & Having Fun". At this videoshooting, there was no rivalry, no hatred, no sadness. Peacefully and warmhearted, we got connected, expressed ourselves in dancing/rapping and made new friends. That's when I say, "Hip Hop is still alive."

from left to the right: Stella, Sophie, Jana, Iris,
Miranda, CoCo, Jennito (Viberz crew) and Tijey (Viberz crew);
copyright by Kathleen Montorio

I'm very curious about the complete video. The track "Bad Habit" is in English and the first part of a song and the video should be uploaded with the second part in November. If you want to book some of these female Hip Hop dancers for your own projects, just contact me.

Peace,
Kath

P.S.: more pictures & blog entry about the trailer