FootworKINGz

FootworKINGz = SPECIAL GUESTS of Shorties Wanna Live: a youth concert promoting unity & peace in conjunction with Chicago tween entertainers, The Brown Boys' debut album release! Sunday, December 6th @ IIT Campus, McCormick Auditorium 4-7pm

Get your tickets, now, so you can witness, first-hand, the electrifying movements of Chicago's own, FootworKINGz! www.TheBrownBoys.ws

The FootworKINGz (FWK) is an all-star ensemble featuring Chicago’s top footworkers. These young men range from ages 16-24 and represent the essence of strength, raw talent, extreme energy and power!

FWK was founded in 2007 by Leida “Lady Sol” Villegas, as a professional dance ensemble
with a mission to attract global recognition to Chicago’s unique style of footwork. Footworkin’ is an extremely energized, lower body movement that evolved as a response to House and Juke (a highly sped up House sound up to 160bpm) music.

FWK members King Charles & Prince Jron recently toured on Madonna’s “Sticky & Sweet” World
Tour 2008-2009. Both are featured in Madonna’s new music video “Celebration.” FWK members have also appeared as a Top 20 act on NBC’s “America’s Got Talent,” Season 4, Ellen Degeneres’ Really Big Show ‘07 for TBS, VH-1 Hip Hop Honors ’07 with Missy Elliott, and MTV’s “My Block Chicago.” They have been featured in the Chicago Tribune, Cover of Red Eye Paper, NBC 5 Morning News, Rolling Stone Magazine and
Verizon Wireless “Do The Juke” phone commercial.

In October 2009, FWK released “Take Flight,” the first, quality DVD about Chicago’s “footwork” style that documents the development of the FootworKINGz project. “We are very excited to release this extraordinary mini-doc and present these incredibly talented young men to the world,” states Ms. Villegas, Manager of the FootworKINGz.

FWK has been featured on local and global stages including New York’s Lincoln Center HH
Generation Next 09, Chicago’s “Looptopia 08,” Juste De Bout 2008 in Paris, Aids Run / Walk
Chicago ‘08, Chicago’s Navy Pier, Steppenwolf Theater with Kuumba Lynx, McDonald’s
World Wide Convention in Orlando, Weber State University in Utah, San Francisco Hip Hop
Dance Festival, Best of Dance Chicago, and Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas.In this photo: Christopher Maddog Thomas, FootworKingz Dance, Charles Parks, Jaron Boyd, Kenny Tyreese Footwork Livingston, Tee Jay, Brandon Love, Aaron Ag Neal, Kemo Sanders, Kendall Larkin