Cityfolk Festival Performer Steps Up to the Big Screen

Cityfolk has presented street dancers at the Cityfolk Festival for the last five years. These dancers specialize in vernacular, urban-born dance styles such as breaking, popping, and locking. While these dance styles received popular media attention starting in the 1970s and 80s, its community of practitioners remains primarily underground. However, a recent resurgence of attention has brought some of these dance styles’ most seasoned practitioners to the Hollywood big screen, and other high profile projects. One of these dancers, Pandora, graced the Cityfolk Festival grounds as a street performer in 2007 and 2008 with her crew, Venus Fly Trap.

Pandora specializes in popping, a robotic style of street dance that was born during the Funk era in the 70's. However, she is perhaps most known for her strong skills in a related style, called tutting, a geometric and Egyptian hieroglyphic-inspired style of street dance involving fast angular hand and arm movements. Pandora has competed in and won various high level dance competitions throughout the US as well as in Europe, Japan, & Canada. She was also presented with an award for "Outstanding Popping Skills" at the Los Angeles Hip-Hop Dance Awards and in 2005 received a standing ovation on Fox's "So You Think You Can Dance".

Most recently, Pandora…

Tutted her way to Hollywood as a featured dancer in Disney's STEP UP 3D (currently playing in theaters near you!). Check out her tutting solo about 30 seconds into the “Red Hook” battle scene:


Appears as her own character "Autumn" in Step Up 3D Director JON. M. CHU'S new original online series "LEGION OF EXTRAORDINARY DANCERS" aka "The LXD",
Episode 3 – Robot Lovestory:


Episode 7 – The Dark Doctor:


Danced all the way to Denmark to star in avant-garde theatrical play "MENNESKE (HUMAN) ROBOT" directed by one of Europe's legendary old school street dancers, STEEN KOERNER.
Pandora’s solo at a promo show at Politiken, Denmark:


Learn more about Pandora by clicking on her name at the start of this post or following her on Facebook.