Lately, with the success of So You Think You Can Dance we’ve seen a resurgence of dance in main stream media. Now there is also emerging a progressive vision for dance in the internet age. Film director John M. Chu cut his teeth on the blockbuster hit: “Step Up 2: The Streets.” Today he is working on an interactive web series featuring “The League of eXtraordinary Dancers” (LXD), a band of hip hop dancers with “supernatural” abilities that battle it out over broadband. Everything about this project is Web 2.0. First Chu posted video announcements on YouTube asking dancers to respond with their audition videos. From the hundreds of video responses he received, he selected his cast, to make an interactive web series. So far they have been doing an impressive PR circuit. The LXD dancers have made appearances on SYTYCD, the Oscars, and TED. If this blows up, it could mean dance gains a strong foothold in the future of media. Below is their recent TEDtalk. I love what Chu says about how dance is flourishing and evolving through exchange on the internet. My hope is that the concert dance community takes some tips from these hip hop dancers and take to the digital streets!

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