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That's also when he danced his way into the tabloids, during a period he calls 'the Britney fiasco': His brief dalliance with the pop star broke up his marriage and eventually cost him his job. Any kind of classes going on, I was there.' That work paid off - by early 2004, Short was on the road as creative director for Spears's 'Onyx Hotel' tour. I mean three classes a day, seven days a week. Dancing is the visual personification of music, but stepping is the rhythmic personification of music and dance.' In more ways than one, Short says, ' 'Stomp' was my college.' Though he'd seen stepping before - at Juneteenth celebrations while visiting his grandmother in Arizona - it was during his time on tour that he began to 'understand the rhythmic language of stepping. I just wasn't a trained dancer.' The show's found-object percussion came naturally to Short, who had played keyboard and drums 'since I was 3 or 4 years old,' so 'because I was a musician, I understood the language.' But his dance training came later, out of necessity.

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But the actor says that growing up, 'I didn't know how to dance.' With 'Stomp,' he says, 'I kind of adapted to the movement because I had to. )ĭJ's dance moves win him the respect of his school chums, just as Short's skills earned him a spot as a backup dancer for Britney Spears in 2002 the next year he became her choreographer. Nevertheless, in the new film 'Stomp the Yard,' Short, 24, was confident he could play DJ, a young man transformed by his experiences in higher education after he travels to Atlanta to attend the fictional Truth University and joins a fraternity and its underdog step team. (A road company of the show is at the Warner Theatre through Sunday.) Young men and young women compete (or 'battle') by dancing (some of the moves look aggressive).Columbus Short says he always intended to go to college.īut the actor, who grew up in Southern California, says he 'took a detour,' when, at 17, he joined the cast of the dance-percussion show 'Stomp' in San Francisco and toured with the group for two years. ► Several young men dance with red splatters on their clothing that look like blood.

A young man talks to a young woman in a dismissive manner. A young man threatens another young man over his girlfriend (saying, 'Don't mess with my girl.'). A man threatens a young man if he does not stop dating his daughter. ► A young man threatens another young man by saying, 'You're dead.' Large, aggressive looking dogs bark, growl and pull against their leashes. A young woman shoves a young man out of the way and pushes past him. Several young men shove one young man who tries to force his way through their line. A young man is shoved down and slides along the floor (he is unharmed). ► Two groups of young men and young women shove each other after a competition. VIOLENCE/GORE 5 - Two groups of young men and young women fight in a street: they punch and shove each other, one young man with a brick strikes another, one punches another in the stomach repeatedly and one shoots another (we see the young man lying dead on the ground with blood on his mouth and his shirt). ► Young men grab their crotches while dancing in several scenes. A young man and a young woman flirt in several scenes. Young women wear short tops and low-cut tops that reveal cleavage and bare abdomens in many scenes throughout the movie. A young man takes off his shirt and is shown bare-chested. ► Young men and young women dance in a dance club (the young women wear short and low-cut tops, and some short shorts or skirts that reveal bare thighs). A young man and a young woman dance close together and kiss. A young woman thrusts her buttocks (she is wearing short shorts) at young men while dancing. ► A young man and a young woman dance suggestively: he bends her over at the waist and rubs his hips against her buttocks, and his girlfriend becomes jealous. ► A young woman visits a young man's room and asks to come in (it is implied that they have sex). SEX/NUDITY 4 - A young man and a young woman lie in bed together studying (he is bare-chested), and they kiss and snuggle.

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