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Stomp the Yard: Homecoming is the latest in a long line of street dance movies to hit our local multiplexes. Over the past few years we’ve seen an avalanche of these kind of films and there’s no doubt that they have influenced recent trends and in their own way and have led to a renewed interest in dance culture.
Rising star 17-year-old Chanelle Green from Newport has been dancing since the age of seven and is the youngest member of award-winning hip hop crew DNA. She travels the world taking part in dance competitions and has just opened a studio with DNA in Telford.
Chanelle believes that dance is all about expressing yourself and having the confidence to do whatever you want to do. It’s this dilemma that Chance Harris’s character in Stomp the Yard: Homecoming has to face.
Leading up to the national ‘step offs’, Chance has got a lot to deal with: street gangs, a complicated love life and troubles at home. Not to mention having to make one of the biggest decisions of his life.
Thankfully for Chanelle, life is a lot simpler. On a week day she’s up at 6.30am for college, gets home for 5.30pm when she’s picked up for dance practice and then returns home at 11.30pm. After that there’s not much time for anything else and it’s straight to bed.
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And the weekends aren’t very different. She’s in the stu- dio teaching kids the art of dance by 11am. Chanelle got the job because street dance was so popular on TV and parents wanted their kids to learn the same thing. After
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Words by Antoinette Powell
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