Raw Talent: A Philadelphia Hip Hop Dance Documentary

Leah "Keturah" Caesar and Nicole “Victorious” Harris are the founders of LeahNicole Media. Leah Nicole Media is a company of talented individuals enforcing Philly soul into the arts and event planning via film, music and dance. Their foremost project is producing Raw Talent: A Philadelphia Hip Hop Dance Documentary.

Raw Talent is inspirational movement exposing Philadelphia’s contributions to Hip Hop history and culture. This feature length film will highlight The Philadelphia experience by introducing our style and rich rich history in hip hop dance, dating back to  to late 70's all the way to present day. This documentary will cover our originality in stepping, break dancing, popping, locking, house, old school 90s to our own native dance the “Wu-Tang”. Raw  Talent will also capture the connection that graffiti art and DJing  have to the dance community. These stories will be told by the people who lived it, along with the legendary pioneers and new school prodigies.

Photo Credit: Meredith Eldow

Leah and Nicole are responsible for an array of creatively charged, passion driven and innovative events such as two installments of the classic b-boy jam " The Get Down"which was a fund raising event to show appreciation to the Philadelphian breakers for preserving, and living on the essence of the break dance culture. The fresh trendsetting “Stylin on Them” dance party attracted our finest b-boys, fly girls, crate diggers, back packers, musicians, college students, and the general public. The highly remarkable “The Big Pay Back Project is a significant part of this documentary; it serves as an original documentation of the women of Philadelphia’s, contribution to Hip Hop Culture. Lastly, Philadelphia’s first and only infamous underground "The Orange Line Photo Shoot" consisted of Philadelphia’s Hip Hop community and will be used for marketing, promotions and archival material for the film. " The was the best hip hop night of my life" Alfonso Robinson”.

Raw Talent: A Philadelphia Hip Hop Dance Documentary is designed to uncover the truth, style and history. These young women have been inspirational and successful in all their endeavors. They are excited and working relentlessly towards the completion of the film. 

Bio’s

 Leah “ Keturah” Caesar a.k.a Krazzy K is a natural born dancer from the rich talented city of Philadelphia. She comes from a family who studied and trained in the art form of b- boying (Break Dance), which influenced her to start breakin’ and developed a deep love and appreciation for that culture. Shortly after, Keturah joined Versatile Dance Company which taught and grave her incite on performance dance, choreography and the various styles of hip hop dances such as, popping, locking, old school 90’s and house.  From there she performed, battled and taught workshops all over the city. Her high energetic and unique styles of dance allowed her to compose and assemble theatrical dance sequences, appeared in music videos, local television networks, performed with many hip hop dance companies, and received grants for dance projects. Now Keturah is one of founders for Leah Nicole Media implementing Philly soul into arts and event planning via film, music and dance and one of the creators of Raw Talent: A Philadelphia Hip Hop Dance Documentary, exposing Philly’s hip hop culture from the late 70’s to present day. Keturah’s talent is the natural ability to perform incredibly dynamic actions driven by boundless passions.

Photo Credits: Adachi Pimentel

Coming from Philadelphia rapper, vocalist, writer and film producer Nicole “Victorious” Harris has beguiled crowds all up and down the east coast. As one half of the “Versus” movement (the dopest female mc duo Philly has ever seen) and also a core member of Squadzilla, Victorious molded her raw passion for performing into an electrifying stage show opening for the likes of Mos Def, The Roots, Freeway and the Black Eye Peas to name a few. Now as a solo artist her sound is defined as “the soul of hip hop”, blues, “polished rawness”! Oh yes Victorious is buzzing all over again. Not aside from her creative abilities but a business woman as well with her latest endeavor as one of the founders of Leah Nicole Media and also joint creator and producer of “Raw Talent” a Philadelphia hip hop dance documentary. Victorious she is and so shall she be. Her tool is her natural ability to perform incredibly driven actions through boundless passion, the definition of Raw Talent. Philly stand up!

Raw Talent: A Philadelphia Hip Hop Dance Documentary has great support from Leeway Foundation, Red Bull, Wax Poetics Magazine, Nakturnal Ladies, 215HipHop.com Two One Five Magazine, Philly Weekly, Phrequency online magazine and Daily News along with Philadelphia Hip Hop community.

www.rawtalentphilly.com

www.myspace.com/rawtalentphilly

www.rawtalentphilly.blospot.com

Yours Truly

LeahNicoleMedia