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Assault Magazine LLC®: Interview with SpringField Dancer Tai Chi.Interview By: Chucky /// Photography Edited By :: Rebel Assault Designs ASSAULTMAGAZINE.COM® 01/01/2010 - Exclusive interview with the Tai Chi.
Tai Chi: Well, Tai Chi is Maurice Chin. Chucky: Where is Tai Chi originally from? Tai Chi: Portmore, St. Catherine where mi born and raise... but a Central Village mi did live. Chucky: So, how did the name Tai Chi come about? Tai Chi: Well my last name a Chin... and my nickname was Tai... and because mi did love pure karate movie the name Tai Chi jus come about easy. Chucky: What would you say influenced you to become a dancer? Tai Chi: I love disco music... and then Bogle the dancer nice it up... him keep the dancing thing nice... so when mi come a foreign, dancing was just another thing weh keep me out of trouble... Chucky: It is understood that Tai Chi had a connection with a dancing group called Startime dancers/faculty... what caused the split? Tai Chi: Lol... Well, things a things... the whole thing start over gyal... man start malice and get vex over woman... a girl like me and a man waan malice over it... Chucky: Is there still a connection? Tai Chi: We keep a little links still but it not as tight as before... so Tai Chi and Startime is not together right now. Chucky: What is the difference rolling solo than when you were with Startime? Tai Chi: MI have things pat... but the dancing feel a little dead when is a solo thing... there was much more vibes as a group... it's kinda harder to get the attention by yourself. Chucky: With the recent attention that dancehall/reggae music has been receiving and the surge of dancing groups around the Connecticut/Springfield/New York area how has this impacted Tai Chi? Tai Chi:Mi mek a name a New York and Connecticut and it feel good... Massachusetts big... so a more vibes and niceness... mi get respect... Mi link with Crazy Vybz and things just get crazy... When me do mi thing solo it feel good... and when me deh a Hartford mi do a thing with Crazy Vybz just like how when them deh a Springfield we do a thing together... Chucky: And do you feel any competition? Tai Chi: Not really... but competition gonna get harder every time... a just you have to try and make yourself better cause everybody a dance now... so you just have to mix things and try to be better than the next person. Chucky: Does Tai Chi create his own dances and what motivates the creativity? Tai Chi: Yeah, a the riddim and the girls motivate me... just get a vibes off the riddims or how the girls a respond and it just feel good and mi start dance... more time mi all pull a girl come dance with mi... just draw them in. Chucky: I've heard people say that dancehall dancers are going to be a dying breed based on the notion that they are only here now because of the dancing riddims/songs that are being produced. How do you feel about that? Tai Chi: I don't think so... dancing was from back in the days... from there was music there was dancing... it takes two... from a artist a gi a vibes from instruction tunes dancing have to go on... and when the riddim play from it big... dancing a gwaan... whether it fast or slow dancing still there... Chucky: Where do you see dancing and Tai Chi in the next, say five years? Tai Chi: Yo, dancing aguh get crazy... more dancers, more artists, and more stars... different style and ways to tek it to them... mi all a work pon a tune for the girls, it name Dandy Shandy... write it and just waan perform it... Chucky: So, Tai Chi is an artist to? Tai Chi: Yeah, mi write, dance and Dj... Chucky: Getting exposure through dancing might be a bit harder than doing music, how has the struggle been for you? And how did you persevere? Tai Chi: Yeah it harder cause is a new thing and everybody a bomb rush it... the haters them want take the shine... but the dj them a kick it off, and push it... but the girls them really make it enjoyable, naah whole no badmind... a just fi whole a vibes through friendship... and Crazy Vybz bad already... mi jus a make an establishment. Chucky: What makes Tai Chi different from other dancers? Tai Chi: Mi just go out there and enjoy myself... nuh watch no face... just a do mi thing and feel the vibes that the music a give off... nuh inna this fi start trouble... Chucky: Where can the people link up with Tai Chi? Tai Chi: All over... all the parties and pon mi myspace page, myspace.com/tai_chi_general Chucky: What does Tai Chi do before performing? Tai Chi: Give thanks to the Father... stage thing nuh easy and a him help mi through and make me do the best... like the show weh mi did do with Startime and John Hype... and Elephant Man at the Hippodrome. Chucky: Any Shout Outs/ Thanks to? Tai Chi Shout Outs: The Father... shout out and thanks to Moms, Dads and friends. Springfield, Connecticut, New York, and global... Amrah All, Crazy Vybz, StarTime, Mad Max, All dancers and dancing crews, Triple Threat, Mr. British, Florida... Assault Magazine LLC®. Assault Magazine LLC®. **Tai Chi ** |
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