Adib Noor
Bandar Seri Begawan
Sunday August 16,2009 was a day to remember for most of the people who gathered around to see the awesome spectacle of more than fifty people dancing to Michael Jackson's ``Beat It'', ``Thriller'' and ``Smooth Criminal'' in front of Chill, Gadong. The energetic wonderfully choreographed spectacle was brought to the public thanks to the highly unpredictable group of youth known only as``SomethingToDoWithBeans''(STDBW) in their tribute to the King of Pop.
It was a normal Sunday afternoon in Gadong, young people hanging around with friends when suddenly the familiar echoes of foot steps from Michael Jackson's smooth criminal hung in the air followed by the familiar guitar sounds of Eddie Van Halen in Michael Jackson's beat it was played and two random youths suddenly got up and mimic the dance moves of the music icon and followed by many others setting of a snowball effect as people gathered around and took pictures as well as videos of the unexpected almost musical like performance. The dance ended with the now legendary dance moves of Michael Jackson's thriller and in just three minutes it was over but the spectacle would undoubtedly last forever.
The tribute was made possible by the members of STDBW as well as more than 50 volunteers who participated in the dance sequence as well as three dedicated choreographers . Zatty Joanda one of the admins of STDBW and one of the choreographers for the spectacle stated that it took ten hours to teach and for the participants to learn the dance moves and it was surprisingly not as difficult as she thought as most of the participants had the dedication, the team work and most importantly had fun putting it all to work.
Ben Stone one of the founding fathers of STDBW said `` The whole thing is to pay tribute to the King of Pop and how his influence in music as well as dance have touched the world including us in Brunei'' He further added that it also gave exposure to the dancing scene here in Brunei Darussalam as most of the volunteers are members of different dance group in the sultanate and took the chance to pay tribute to Michael Jackson who as most people would agree influence the dance moves of today.
What's to come next from this innovative and unpredictable group of people?? who knows for updates and the groups past exploits those interested may take a look at their fan page by just searching ``SomethingToDoWithBeans'' on the popular social networking site Facebook .
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