#akai osei-mansfield

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Performed by: Sofia Boutella, Elisabetta Di Carlo, Falk Hentschel, Brice Larrieu, Kaito Masai, Ndedi Ma-Sellu, Delphine Nguyen, Stephanie Nguyen, Akai Osei-Mansfield, Ali Ramdani, George Sampson, and others

Number: “Cuba 2012″

Choreographer: Anthony Talauega and Richmond Talauega

Style: Salsa/Argentine Tango/Hip Hop/Breakdancing/Animation

From: StreetDance 2 (2012)

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All Stars (2013)

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All Stars (2013, Dir. Ben Gregor, UK) (Cert: U/TBC) ***

Starring: Theo Stephenson, Akai Osei-Mansfield, Fleur Houdijk

  A local youth club is shutting down to make way for a car park but Jaden (Osei-Mansfield) has a plan to keep the youth club going; by holding a show where local children can showcase their talents. Jaden’s a talented street-dancer but is told to focus on his studies. Meanwhile, Ethan (Stevenson) hoping to impress a girl (Hanae Atkins) challenges a group of dancers to a competition despite not knowing how to dance so he and Jaden form a group to perform at the talent competition.

  All Stars isn’t exactly a film that’s likely to hit the big time; dance films (that is films that feature extensive dance sequences, much like how musicals use songs), have historically a rather poor reputation and given that this is a very, VERY British film, there’s not much hope for this film overseas. This film isn’t revolutionary in its field. It delivers pretty much exactly what is expected, but it does it in a fairly competent manner. The characters are fairly one-dimensional and the story is pretty poor (personally, I’m sick of the tired old “let’s put on a show to save this building” plot that’s been done so many times and is really lazy writing) however, the film does deliver something in the way of some pretty impressive dance numbers on a conceptual level and even though the film is full of appearances by familiar faces (at least in the UK), it never comes across as gratuitous (in fact, it rather underuses John Barrowman). Should you expect something special? No, and that is a disappointment, but there’s nothing truly terrible about this film either.

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Monday's Surprise.

On monday I went into Central London along with my friend Sophie to shoot more of my final uni project, the morning went well I achieved what I needed to. I even ran into the male and female winners of the London Marathon being photographed by the press with their trophy. Later in the day we came across Stephen Lawrence's 20th anniversary memorial service (a victim of a racial hate crime) at St Martin-in-the-Fields Church at Trafalgar Square. Out came, David Cameron, Borris Johnson, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg. Followed by Sol Campbell, Jermain Defoe, Jahmene Douglas and Emeli Sande. Below are some photographs, I was not prepared for this, I was shooting on a 50mm 1.8 lens, also I did not want to appear disrespectful to the memorial so I did not approach anyone, although everyone appeared happy and Borris said Hello and waved.

Shortly after, we came across a second crowd huddled around Vue cinema in Leicester Square, it was the premiere of a British film "All Stars". A child/teen film that I had not heard of before, however we got to see some new and some popular faces. Kimberly Walsh, Ashley Jensen, Ashleigh and Pudsey and Kevin Bishop. New faces, Akai Osei-Mansfield, Kieran Lai, and Hanae Atkins. 

I will follow this post tomorrow with some of the shots I captured for my final project :)

Enjoy,

NaTasha xo

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