In 2011, Tiny Toones were blessed to not only workshop with, be choreographed by, but to dance on stage also with three French International dancers; Nabil Ouelhadj, ‘Mousstik’, and Cissel.
After two weeks of rehearsals, in collaboration with BDB dancers from Battambang, audiences at Chenla Theatre were wowed to two performances of ‘Roam ! Dansez !’, Episode 2: ‘Carnet de Voyage’ (‘Crazy Car’).
In 2012 Tiny Toones moved to its new, big Centre in Chba Ampov. Australian Morgan Lewis, aka ‘Morganics’ was to be the first lucky International visiting artist. He is an Australian hip hop artist, performer, director and community worker. Although our new dance floor was not finished and our music studio still just a bunch of guys, a little equipment and a whole lot of space … this didn’t stop Morganics from visiting every day he could and spending time between the DJ room, the music production room and the dance floor.
DJ DSK who now lives in China, has been visiting us in Cambodia since 2008. He always makes time to visit Tiny Toones where he workshops with all the music staff and students. He has taught many of them about dj’ing, scratching and mixing.
DJ DSK is a good friend to Tiny Toones and stays in touch, and visits whenever he can.
DJ Illest is a resident DJ at Pontoon nightclub in Phnom Penh. Originally from France, he is from the CP5 crew. In 2010 CP5 joined him on a visit to Tiny Toones to hang with the guys from our music department. We had just moved to our Stop Bokor Centre and with plenty of empty wall space, the crew set to work and tagged the class room alongside KK.
In 2010 Diplo and Major Lazer visited the music department of Tiny Toones for the first time – and not the last!
Dj’ing, MC’ing and music production, Tiny Toones were lucky to have learnt a range of skills from the pair. Not only did the guys get to learn, work shop and freestlye with them, but they even performed on stage together.