The one and only eccentric hip-hop dance crew in the wicked south! heck, maybe even in the entire National Capital Region!
Originally "excentric",the group was formed Sep. 1, 2007 for a competition called SouthVIBE that was held at Southville Int'l School & Colleges (SISC) under the supervision of Christian Sekhanan as artistic director. consisting of purely college students at the time, the group faced many difficulties in terms of synchronicity. this was due to the fact that the dance style introduced by Christian wasn't easy, in addition to that it wasn't very well known.
the members that comprised the original 8 members of excentric were either new to the style, new to hip hop, or new to dance itself. this being the case the group still pushed on and eventually making it to the finals alongside Intensity crew (now known as Flipendemic kru) and Southside New Breed. in the end excentric crew lost the competition but debuted as one of the most original crews south-bred.
as excentric evolved to eCSentric, so did the style. Originally a bay style/ LA style group, the foundation-less style situated by Christian also evolved from his West Coast roots to a now seemingly interpretative hip hop. no more LA style musicality, no more predictable Bay style movements, no more lyrical hip hop. When the crew witnessed Christian's eccentric choice of musicality, unothodox movements, and story-telling styles the crew realized by themselves that "oh no! eCSentric is becoming eccentric" and true to that prediction eCSentric in fact followed that change.
eCSentric members are not picked based on their dancing prowess but on their understanding of the eCSentric style and philosophy.
we are a philosophy based crew. something that alot of people don't know about us is that everything we do artistically and professionally is based on the philosophy of eCSentric. we refuse to follow the hip hop format by choice, we are not here to show you all the styles we can do neither are we here to show you things you think looks good. "eCSentric" is not a name for us, it is a lifestyle. we are neither "crack-pots" nor "fish-out-of-water", we strive for universality and if we have to give up following the criteria of "hip hop crews" or the street credibility to achieve that then it's a price we are all willing to pay gladly.
Our members understand that people won't readily understand us and although they are free to indulge themselves in as many styles as they want to learn, once we represent the crew we dance under the philosophy of eCSentric. call us a cult, call us a gimmick, call us a bunch of weirdos we have no qualms about whatever we're called.
hate all you want. we don't dance to impress or express.
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