Platform Hip Hop Festival gets underway at inner city performing arts centre CarriageWorks with an entire day of FREE Hip Hop. FREAK THE TECHNIQUE is a full day of breaking battles, dance crew contests, street style showdowns and graffiti comps. All the action kicks off this Saturday 19 March 2011 from 12:00pm.
Hundreds of people, including families, artists and fans will flood the foyer of CarriageWorks for the fourth annual Platform Hip Hop Festival – now the biggest Hip Hop celebration in Australia.
There will be massive moves, stunning displays of power, street style and death defying tricks in fast motion for hours, as the best crews from all over Australia battle it out for a heaving crowd and international judges: B*Boy Blond (Korea), B*Boy Storm (Germany), and POE 1 (USA).
Heats take place throughout the day with competitions for kids, up-and-comers (NextGen Battles) and heats for the final event, Platform’s Freak the Technique Breaking Battle.
FREAK THE TECHNIQUE WHEN: Saturday 12 March, From 12noon
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