Dance Masterz

If you are one of the people who got inspired by PBS’s legendary documentary ”Reckn’ shop Live from Brooklyn”, you must appreciate this clip.  Yes, it is Kito from Misfits.   He is the member of Misfits crew along with Prancer (dancer for Special ED also a member of Zhige), Peek A Boo, Rubber Band.   As I mentioned earlier in this blog, Kito has a very unique style of dancing. It is very hard to describe but he hits the beat in a very different manner.  or somebody else can describe his style better, please.  Although he didn’t appear in many music videos (maybe only Mariah Carey’s “emotion” and Lalah Hatherway’s “Baby Don’t Cry”, I heard he was very prominent at NY club scene in early 90s.   (By the way, I think a guy who is hanging around Mariah in her “Dream Lover” video, is Kito.)  If you know anything about him, (like other video he did or what he is doing now), please leave your comment, please. 

And I just want to talk about the background story of this clip.  This clip is so called “Underground Zoo video” among dancers in Japan.  What it means is that there was a Japanese pop group called “ZOO” and in 1992 ZOO went to NYC  featured  NY dancers like Link, E-Joe, Brian Green, Marjory, Marquest, Voo Doo Ray, and Tony (Saku)  in their music video that you see at the bottom of this blog.  During the shoot, one of the members from ZOO videotaped NY dancers dancing being videotaped behind the camera.  And the footage was circulated among limited dancers in Japan first.   It was a kind of video people talked about but never be able to see it.   Later, I was lucky enough to see the same video but the quality was so bad because the VHS tape I got  was copied after copied so many times.     So, I was so surprised to see this video on youtube, I mean in public.  Time really changed!!

Kito’s dance appeared at 3:00 in this clip.