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MASSIVE MONKEES EXIT “AMERICA’S BEST DANCE CREW”

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Seattle Times
Massive Monkees showed “massive heart” on Sunday night’s episode of “America’s Best Dance Crew,” according to emcee Mario Lopez. But it wasn’t enough to convince the judges to send the Seattle break dancers to the finals of the MTV competition. The Monkees were bested by the all-female troupe from Los Angeles, We Are Heroes, in Sunday night’s round. Making a gracious exit, dancer JD Rainey said, “Thank you, America,” before departing the stage, arm in arm with his fellow Monkees: Brysen Angeles, Jerome Aparis, Marcus Garrison, Timothy Soriano and Samnith Ly.

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MASSIVE MONKEES ARE ONE DANCE STEP CLOSER TO BEING AMERICA’S BEST CREW

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Seattle Timesmassive monkeys
Massive Monkees are still in the running for America’s Best Dance Crew. The Seattle breakdancers made it to the top four on the MTV reality show on Sept. 6, but then barely scraped by last night in a dance-off against Bronx crew Rhythm City. But with a performance that mirrored *NSYNC’s “Tearing Up My Heart,” they moved into the top three. They received a standing ovation; Judge JC Chasez applauded the group for its bboy take on his classic song and judge Shane Sparks added that the performance would put the group on the map.

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TONIGHT: WATCH MASSIVE MONKEES ON ABDC

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Seattle Weeklymassivemonk
Seattle’s The Massive Monkees continue to be in top form on “America’s Best Dance Crew,” the MTV show that challenges a diverse collection of dancers to deliver high-intensity choreography around a theme each week. There are two opportunities to attend “viewing parties”: one is an all-ages/family-friendly party at The Filipino Community Center(5740 Martin Luther King Jr. Way) that starts at 7 PM, and the other is a 21+, sports-bar style party at The War Room starting at 7:30 PM. Both are free, and Massive Monkees-affiliated DJs will be spinning at each.

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MASSIVE MONKEES ON “AMERICA’S BEST DANCE CREW” | WEEK 3, MARTIAL ARTS CHALLENGE

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Check out Massive Monkees’ on Week Three’s Martial Arts Challenge on “America’s Best Dance Crew”!

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LAST NIGHT/Q&A: MASSIVE MONKEES ON AMERICA’S BEST DANCE CREW

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Seattle Weeklymonkees
America’s Best Dance Crew, airing on MTV on Sunday nights, is the dance battle equivalent of American Idol, wherein a group of teams are tasked a challenge and compete each week to win a majority of audience votes via text message while being subjected to the feather-lashing critique of celebrity judges. Despite the glitzy production, the show features exciting and innovative dance collectives and this season’s groups appear to be the best yet, particularly because Seattle’s own internationally-acclaimed Massive Monkees are competing. Last Friday, Hollis Wong-Wear at the Seattle Weekly chatted with Jerome Aparis and Bryson Angeles of Massive Monkees on a conference call and asked them about the hula-hoop challenge and more about their experience performing on the show. To read the interview, click the above link.

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MASSIVE MONKEES ABDC VIEW ‘N’ VOTE PARTY @ THE WAR ROOM 8/16/2009

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Gather together at the War Room to watch America’s Best Dance Crew and vote for Seattle’s own Massive Monkees!

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MASSIVE MONKEES ON AMERICA’S BEST DANCE CREW

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Seattle Weeklymassive monkees
Randy Jackson Presents: America’s Best Dance Crew, Season 4, premiered last night on MTV, featuring nine dance crews from across the country including Seattle’s very own Massive Monkees. For those who are unfamiliar, the show operates with the same basic premise of Randy Jackson’s other side project, American Idol. It’s extremely exciting to see Massive Monkees featured as one of the nine crews on a show with such broad national exposure as they are such an important, if unsung, establishment in Seattle’s hip-hop culture. Locally, their crew includes a vibrant and active collective of dancers and musicians– One Be Lo, DJ DV-ONE and DJ BlesOne are some such members–and internationally, Massive Monkees have garnered numerous accolades, including winning the World BBoy Championships in 2004 against Supercrew (the group that was named America’s Best Dance Crew back in Season 2.)

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