Stewardess Buck Challenge

idiosynCrazy productions is hosting an online competition for dancers who Buck (J-Sette).  In conjunction with our latest evening-length dance work, Private Places, we are soliciting short (1 – 2 minute) videos that combine two of the source inspirations for Private Places: flight attendants and J-Sette performance.  We are looking for small groups* (of two or three people each) to submit videos of their hottest “Stewardess Buck” sequences.  In a “Stewardess Buck,” we are looking for routines that are dynamic in the following ways:

• the use of Bucking vocabulary fused with flight attendant and air traffic control movements
• the clarity of the movement
• the complexity of rhythm and musicality in the choreography and the performance
• the cleverness of background environment and costumes (you do NOT need to go out and buy anything – we are really looking at how creative you can be with things you have already, or things you have found)
• the attention to the frame of the camera that you are using to shoot your Stewardess Buck… how creative can you be with the way that it is shot, how you enter and exit the frame, etc.

Please post submission videos to YouTube (you can make them private, as long as we have any necessary passwords) by 5pm EST on Saturday, August 11.  Send submission links to info@idiosyncrazy.org .  Please include your name and all names of people dancing with you in the video.  If there is a more preferred way to contact you (other than email), please also list that.  idiosynCrazy productions staff plus J-Setters Donte Beacham (from Dallas’ Mystic Force) and LaKendrick Davis (from Atlanta’s Toxic) will be making decisions on the winning group by Tuesday, August 14^th.  Results will be posted on the Facebook event page listed below.

The Winning Team will receive:

• An all-expense paid trip (travel, lodging, per diem) to Philadelphia, PA, to perform on September 14^th in We Just Gon’ Buck, a Philly celebration of J-Sett, voguing, and experimental dance in relation to one another AND to attend the world premiere of Private Places on September 15 in the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival
• $300 performance stipend for the group
• Edited videos will be included in a Private Places pre-show video installation

Please post any questions you have on our event page at :

Spread the word, and start practicing!

*please note that you do not need to currently be on a squad, and you also do not need to be making videos only with members of your current squad if you are on one.  You just need to be dancing with people you like dancing with