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Nostalgic for roller rinks and break dancing?



Steve Love has been preserving both art forms with his roller-skating,
break-dancing troupe New York Express Roller Dance Company since
1985. Love’s company will roll into the Brooklyn Children’s Museum
on Aug. 22 as part of its Fridays Rooftop Jam series.



You may already be familiar with Love’s moves; his choreography
was lavishly showcased in the pop band Matchbox Twenty’s video
for "Disease."



Love says his company is filled with the "stars of the dance
that are hired by people who dance behind the artists such as
Puff Daddy or Jennifer Lopez. They hire our people to teach the
choreography – head spins, freezes, locking and popping – because
we bring integrity to an art form that might otherwise have been
lost."



The Queens native promises a show for the Brooklyn Children’s
Museum audience filled with comedy, raw energy and a lot of acrobatics.
He will be performing with two dancers, Brooklyn’s own Mike Johnson
(who, according to Love, still trains here at the Empire Roller
Skating Center in Crown Heights) and Alex Polanco, from the Bronx.
(Both dancers had cameos in the "Disease" video.)



"There will be break dancing, locking and popping. There
will be music from the ’30s, the positive side of hip-hop, and
some new stuff," said Love. "It’s a really good show
for kids. We’ll be skating, dancing, doing acrobatics, classical
skating, spins, jumps and more."



But there’s a lot more to New York Express Roller Dance than
the three dancers who will perform at the Children’s Museum,
assures Love. See the whole company when they return to Brooklyn
Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College on March 14,
with their show "Break: the Urban Funk Spectacular,"
a tribute to all the styles of urban dance.



Love says the borough’s appreciative fans keep him coming back.



"All those little brothers and sisters, they really appreciate
the art," explains Love. "It’s really fun to perform
for Brooklyn audiences."



New York Roller Express Dance Company will perform on Aug. 22,
at 6:30 pm, at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum (145 Brooklyn Ave.
at St. Mark’s Avenue in Crown Heights). For more information,
call (718) 735-4400 or visit www.bchildmus.org. Admission is
free.