Dustin Hubel

WOW! What an amazing array of talent we saw at last night's fifth anniversary of PIZZAZZ! (Portland's funnest talent show!) There was music, bellydancing, Romanian shenanigans, booty rapping, beatboxing, comedy, and burlesque-y striptease (and even a special guest appearance from Sarah Palin)! First of all, a big thanks to all our contestants who worked so hard to bring our sold-out audience the most entertaining show of the year. It takes a ton of guts to put your stuff out there, and in my opinion, you guys provided the toughest competition yet! Secondly thanks to our judges, who was scoring last night's competition on both talent AND creativity, and really had their work cut out for them.
But there can be only three winners of Pizzazz, and here they are:

THIRD PLACE: The amazing hoop manipulations of Dustin Hubel!
SECOND PLACE: The 11-year-old wunderkind Tony Green, who knows every single TriMet bus route by heart!
AND THE PIZZAZZ $1000 GRAND PRIZE WINNER: The brain-melting music from the kids of SCHOOL OF ROCK, who completely blew away the audience with an incredible performance!

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• portland
• mercury
• pizzazz
• 2008
• wonder
• ballroom

[elsaseal]

what effortless control! i love everything about this performance, song included. i've never even thought to spin hoops like poi until this video. i hope to be this good someday.

[sandysmilinstrange]

This was great! The comedic timing, the self-deprecating signals for applause, rhythm, interactions between performers and the mind-blowingly smooth hooping was incredible. Those isolations were perfection itself. Absolutely wonderful.

[tjfry]

Dustin & Jen, I fuckin' love you guys! This was awesome!

Also, I recognize the hot dance move you tried to teach us on NYE. Although, did we not agree that you're supposed to unbutton your shirt as you do it?

[jjsmilemore26]

Sweet!!!

[elsaseal]

sick!

[HoopCharmer]

awesome! Smooth moves! I enjoyed this video so much!

[chewbobington]

Oh my gosh, this is INCREDIBLE. I love everything about this video!

[ichirobbend]

incredible in every way. keep on rollin.

[julahoop]

damn..don't know where my comment went..

well, if it comes up twice, thats OK b/c it rocked! i freakin' LOVE it. The music, the skills, the act as a whole. super smooth!

[julahoop]

I freakin' LOVE this! You are so smooth, and the 'act' as a whole is awesome...good laughs & tickled from the skills. You seriously ROCK!